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[Opinions] Re: Clive, Sylvester, Orlando
by Billina
9/16/2012, 4:44 PM
in reply to a message by vigdis
Horatio is one of the best names, ever.
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- jennifer   +2
9/16/2012, 5:37 PM
Seeing Horatio and Seymour makes me think of Horatio Seymour, former democratic governor of New York and land speculator. He bought most of the land in what is now Seymour, Wisconsin, so the town was named after him, but he never came here. He also ran for presidnet, and lost to Ulysses S. Grant. I went to school in Seymour, that's how I know about that.

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- Billina   +1
9/16/2012, 5:52 PM
That's kind of funny, because a lot of things out here are named after Grant. He stayed here for a while before he was president.
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- Ludwig (blaaarg)
9/17/2012, 9:29 AM
A lot of places where I'm from are named after Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
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