the Stearns had a long association withPhillipsAcademy in Andover, starting in the early 1800’s. Alfred Stearns was its headmaster in 1903. Richard H. Stearns studied at the Academy in the 1840’s. Soon afterwards he opened his store R.H. Stearns & Company, which became a fixture in th...
Meanwhile John Altman sometimes Aultman was born in South Carolina, possibly Orangeburg, around 1740. His son David moved to Georgia in the 1820’s. Other Altmans were to be found in Marion and Williamsburg counties – starting with John Calvin Altman who was born in Marion around 1790. He...
The district with the maximum LQ (MLQ) can be used as a starting point for assigning a surname as local or non-local. In general it appears that surnames with high MLQs tend to be comparatively rare (Figure 1) and are more likely to have a local distribution (eg Pedlar MLQ¼323)....
However, almost without exception, these surnames have bearers referred to in the 19th century as born outside of the Land of Israel, often in the same countries from which migrants with the same names came during the previous centuries. If we just take names starting with A-, then such ...