severnayazemlya:

here are some actual 19th-century american names:

• Ezekiel Bacon
  
• Fielder Suit
• Barnabas Bidwell
• Ambrose Kingsland
• Gustavus Swift
• Yelverton King
• Learned Hand
• Cadwallader Colden
• Churchill Caldom Cambreleng
• Moses Yale Beach
  
• Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
• Orsamas Hylas Irish
• Wheeler Hazard Peckham
• Nathaniel Bowditch Blunt
• Preserved Fish