Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-04 | Page 1 | "Cooledge" Dixie Name Printer Blamed for "Family Split" Politics Don't Match

"Cooledge" Dixie Name e e . Printer Blamed for "Family Split" Pontics Don't r.latph ATLANTA, Oa., Aur. 4An ln-tereetinr ln-tereetinr story waa unfolded here today by Fred J. Cooledae Jr. ef Atlanta and a coast n of Preaident Calvin Coolldse. There are eevea relatives of the chief executive re-sklirtr re-sklirtr here, 1 . t How the error of a printer caused the cbane In apelllnr of the family name, the eeparation of brothers to j seek their fortunes In different sections sec-tions of the nation, the array of brother aralnat brother la the war between trie at a tea, and a "split In the family" over politic a, are some of the f axta related by Mr. Cooled re. Toe great-grandfather of young Mr. Coo led re and the grandfather of the preaklent were brothers. Norm F. Cooledge was the name of the great-grandfather of the At la ntan. and he moved to Ueorgia In 1 M, settling la ths northern section of the state. There Fred J. Coeledge 8r. was brn. The vounger Mr. CooleJge ' ' ' ' said his father voted the Harding-Coolidge Harding-Coolidge ticket fn the lest election, but that he and hla twry brother E. 14. and H. N. Cooledge, voted the "straight Democratic ticket. " Following tha war between the states, F. X Cooledge 8r. went Into the paint buaineaa. He placed an order for soma stationery with a local printer, who, according to the younger Mr. Cooledge, through error, er-ror, printed the name w)th an e" Inetead of an l which was not discovered until after the Job waa done. Neither Mr. Cooledge nor the printer was a hie to stand the financial finan-cial loaa Involved, eo the head of the Cooledge firm accepted the order or-der snd thereafter epeiled hla name ae the erroneous spelling of the printer. On at least two occasions prior to his election to the vice presidency presi-dency Mr. Coolidge and his family have visited the family of F. J. Cooledge Hr. here. v