From a 2004 article about the usage of brand names as personal names in the Baltimore Sun:
When Virginia Hinton, a professor emeritus at Kennesaw State University, was researching a book on the history of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Milledgeville, Ga., she came across a girl named Nylic who was born around 1900. Nylic’s mother was an organist at the church, and her father was the local representative for the New York Life Insurance Co. — abbreviated NYLIC.
Image: Clipping from the New-York Life Insurance Company Annual Report (1907)
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