Early Boston

AS I read about "Boston" making a comeback as a first name ("Sox help Boston literally make a name for itself," Living/Arts, Oct. 20), I noticed you omitted the most notable Boston. As a kid, I read a book about the Lincoln assassination and the ensuing hunt for his assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The man who shot and killed Booth was Boston Corbett, a Union soldier during the Civil War. Maybe parents' nutty practice of naming their kids after the Red Sox hometown has its roots in one soldier's actions 142 years ago.

ANDREW BARON
Leominster