Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Great Family of Smiths. [ARTICLE]

Great Family of Smiths.

In England and Wales there are approximately eight hundred bearers of any one surname on an average. The Smiths alone number morp than 400,000, or 500 times as many. The great family can boast of more men of distinction who have helped to make the empire What it is than the bearer* of any other name.