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The American Joe Miller

by Robert Kempt

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Naming Children in America — 310

On Long Island, a Mr. Crabb named a child “Through-much-tribulation-we-enter-into-the-kingdom-of-Heaven Crabb.” The child went by the name of Tribby. Scores of such names could be cited. In Saybrook, Connecticut, is a family by the name of Beman, whose children are successively named as follows:—1. Jonathan Hubbard Lubbard Hunk Dan Dunk Peter Jacobus Lackny Christian Beman. 2. Prince Fredrick Henry Jacob Zaccheus Christian Beman. 3. Queen Caroline Sarah Rogers Ruhamah Christian Beman. 4. Charity Freelove Ruth Grace Mercy Truth Faith and Hope and Peace Pursue I’ll-have-no-more-to-do-for-that-will-go-clear-through-Christian Beman.

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