Alexander Hamilton Garrideb

“If you came from Kansas I would not need to explain to you who Alexander Hamilton Garrideb was. He made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago, but he spent it in buying up as much land as would make one of your counties, lying along the Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge.” (Killer Evans)
“He had no kith nor kin — or, if he had, I never heard of it. But he took a kind of pride in the queerness of his name.” (Killer Evans)