Word: philipso
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...years I have been endeavoring to correct, through the columns of The Etude, the ridiculous stories that Spusa's name was not Sousa, that he was born in Italy and his name was John Philipso and that when he came to the U. S. he added the initials U. S. A. to the initials S. O. and thereby derived the name of Sousa; or that he was born in Germany and his name was Siegfried Ochs S. O. and when he emigrated added U. S. A. and thereby acquired the name of Sousa. All of this is nonsense...
...therefore the name. The English version is that I am one Sam Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand of the story is that I am a Greek named Philipso, emigrated to America, a great musician; carried my worldly possessions in a box marked S. O., U. S. A., therefore the patronymic." Mr. Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., 1854. His father was Portuguese, his mother Bavarian...
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