r-i-s

Updated: May 27, 2025

"Perhaps I owe this to the fact that my father was a Hungarian nobleman oh, just a trumpery little title, with nothing to pay for the necessary gold lace, so when he came to America he decided, like so many of the revolutionists of that period, to be ultra-American, and dropped even the foreign spelling of the name, changing the 'itz' to plain 'r-i-s," he answered.

Isaac Newton Stevens - An American Suffragette