Abundant Name Finds in "Who's Who in America 1904"

GIRLS


Linnie



BOYS


Birge - another fellow that went by his middle name

Bostwick
 
Burdett
 
Caldwell

Childe

Colbert

Fairfax
 
Hall -  this man chose to go by his middle name

Hastings

Hjalmar- 
 
Kittredge

McDougall
 
Mellen
 
Merriman

Purnell

Rollin

Rush

Sadakichi - another guy that chose to go by his middle name. He had both German and Japanese ancestry.

Valery - because I had not previously realized Valery was ever used on boys

Names From A While Ago

GIRLS

Aletta- came across this in an old directory. Aletta Van Wie was a teacher in Dayton, Ohio.


Celina - a spelling of Selena found in a 1909 directory for Dayton, Ohio. Wife of Matthew Van Ostrand (hmm, a relative of Frank Van Ostrand?)


Isora - lady in a 1909 Dayton, Ohio directory, wife of William H. Van Riper.

I came across another woman with this name: Isora Melissa LeSeur of Sharon, Massachusetts in the book Genealogy of the Tucker Family.

It is "possible" that Isora is a variant spelling of Isaura, but the spelling does not match the pronunciation perfectly. Isaura is a Spanish name said "ee sour uh" but an English speaker would not generally say Isora this way. However, they might say Isaura like Isora (I would guess at "ih zor uh" or "ih sore uh" or even "eye zor uh" or "eye sore uh").

Linnie - name of a saleslady in a 1909 Dayton, Ohio directory. Linnie H. Van Skaik.

Phillice- an unusual spelling of Phyllis I came across in a 1909 directory for Dayton, Ohio. She was the wife of Frank Van Ostrand, painter.

BOYS

Grenville