Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — Oldest Family- In the World. [ARTICLE]

Oldest Family- In the World.

Of .the 400 barons in the British house of lords about a dozen date back to 1400, the earliest being 1264. The oldest family in the British isles is the Mar family in Scotland. 1093. The Campbells of Argyll began in 1190. Talleyrand dates from 1199 and Bismarck from 1270. The Grosvenor family, the Duke of Westminster, 1066; the Austrian house of Hapsburg goes hack to 952 and the house of Bourbon to SG4. The descendants of Mohammed, horn 570, are all registered carefully and authoritatively in a book kept in Mecca by a chief of the family. Little or no doubt exists of the absolute authenticity of the long line of Mohammed's descendants. In China there are many old families; also among the Jews. But in point of pedigrees the mikado of Japan has a unique record. His place has been filled by members of his family for more than 2,500 years. The present mikado is the one hundred and twenty-second in the line. The first one was contemporary with Nebuchadnezzar, 606 ypars before Christ.