Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — Von. [ARTICLE]

Von.

In Germany “von” Implies nobility, and all persons who belong to the nebility prefix “von” to their names without any exception. Persons who do not belong to the nobility cannot have the right to put “von” »before their names. A man who is knighted for some reason, however, has the same right to put “von” before his family name as a person of ancient nobility. For iustance, when Alexander Humboldt was knighted lie became Alexander von Humboldt. All his descendants, male and female, take the prefix.