Show GREAT NAMES THAT DIE OUT historical families in the united state states have not often perpetuated themselves Them selve in tho the united states historical families do not perpetuate themselves today in public life in the united states state there is not a single man who bears bars the name of bf any man inan who played a part in the revolution or whose name was appended to tho the decoration of independence or who sat in the convention that framed the constitution there are in public life a few a very few men who can trace their descent collaterally to colonial fimea times but the possessors of historical names have bave gone neither in statecraft nor diplomacy is there a washington an adams a jefferson a madison a monroe or a jackson there is no franklin ot 01 otis or hamilton or sherman no marion or greene or dr putnam or lee the men whose genius welded the scattered colonies into an empire and set the infant nation on its way to greatness either died chillers chillem or left email small families this is the statement made by A maurice low in the second volume of the american people a study in national psychology mr low also finds that the same phenomenon in statesmanship has its counterpart in finance and commerce the great bankers and merchants and manufacturers of the early das left no descendants in commerce as in public service the author says the men who today dominate are not the mt nun n who bear historic names not the men who can trace their descent hack back in an unbroken line to the first bankers or the first iron masters or weavers but butt the men who have no kinship with thee founders of an industry new men in ei acry cry sence of the word |