Show Tec r it is rather remarkable that so many men identified with the early history of this continent should have living descendants ants many of us remember the lady who visited new york some years ago who claimed descent from americua and had a conviction on hey mind that the congress of the united states ought to bealow biome land of pecuniary recognition on the name congress was not in a pensioning frame of mind and she returned home no richer than she came her visit however led to a close investigation vesti gation of the career of her ancestor which resulted in the discovery that the word america originated in a given bythe by the natives to a portion of the coast which he visited nevertheless the lady is believed to have been lineally descended from americus vespucius or rather the person whose name was lat ionized into that form chicago times |