Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1915 — When Smiths Were Rare. [ARTICLE]

When Smiths Were Rare.

The great family of Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson had not spread so far over London when the first directory was published as it has now, the London Chronicle observes. Only 18 Smiths, 10 Browns, 9 Joneses and 4 Robinsons figure in it, the Cooks, Halls, Hills and Kings being- almost as numerous. There were then but five London bankers, or “goldsmiths that keep running cdsh,” as the directory describes them —Richard Blanchard and Child, at the Marygold, in Fleet street; Mr. Coggs, in the Strand, at the King's Head; Banjamin Hinton, at the Flower de Luce, in Lombard street; James Heririott, at the Naked Boy, in Fleet street; James Johnson, at the Three Flower de Luces, in Lombard street.