Word: kabotchnik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, Harry H. Kabotchnik and his wife, Myrtle, native Americans, petitioned...
Court of Common Pleas to change their name to Cabot, as Kabotchnik was " cumbersome, a hardship and an inconvenience." Lest the Kabotchniks be taken for relatives of theirs, members of the New England Cabot family (including Judge Cabot of the? Boston Juvenile Court; Stephen Cabot, Headmaster of St. George's School, Middletown, R. I.; Dr. Hugh Cabot, Dean of Michigan University Medical School) protested. Three historical and genealogical societies also protested. The judge granted the petition, stating that the Kabotchniks had qualified as Cabots by complying with a Pennsylvania law passed last April relative to change of names...
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