Presidents who changed their names
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (1913–2006) was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the fortieth Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. He was the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. Ford was the fifth U.S. President never to have been elected to that position, and the only one never to have won any national election. Ford was born as Leslie Lynch King, Jr. in Omaha. Nebraska where his parents lived with his paternal grandparents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford

William Jefferson Clinton, forty-second president (1993-2001) was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family name. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/bc42.html

Follow-up on paragoge (addition of letter or syllable at end of word)
From: Clive Cowper clivealive juno.com
The American science fiction author C.J. Cherryh offers a use of this word. Her real last name is Cherry, but her publisher thought that an author with that last name wouldn't be taken seriously. His solution: add a silent letter "h" to the end of the name.
From: Alan Ogden alanogden talktalk.net
The people of Bristol, U.K. often put an L on the end of words, especially if they end in a vowel. That is how the city got its name. It was originally Bristowe, the town with a bridge. A.Word.A.Day

House of Four Pillars in Maumee, Ohio at 405 East Broadway
In 1900, Theodore Dreiser wrote his famous novel, Sister Carrie in this house. The house was built in 1835 and altered to Greek Revival Style in 1844. Dreiser acquired it in 1899.
http://www.oll.state.oh.us/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=54&file_id=4669

Favorite Web sites of members of the Toledo Area Librarians Association
You will have no trouble knowing which one is mine. http://delicious.com/librariansrule

October 21 is the birthday of science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, (books by this author) born in Berkeley, California (1929). She grew up in a family of academics. Her mother, Theodora Kroeber, was a psychologist and writer. Her father, Alfred Kroeber, was the first person to receive a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, and he was called the "Dean of American anthropologists." He specialized in researching Native American cultures, and he befriended the last member of a Native American tribe called the Yahi. This man, given the name "Ishi," was believed to be the last Native American to grow up in California completely untouched by the influence of white settlers. Most of Ishi's family had been massacred during the Gold Rush in California in 1865, and he and the remaining members of the Yahi went into hiding. Ishi wandered into town one day, when he was about 50 years old, and he was taken to the University of California Museum of Anthropology. Alfred devoted much of his life to studying Ishi's language, mannerisms, and habits in order to understand the now-extinct Yahi culture. He took extensive notes on Ishi, which his wife Theodora used to write the book Ishi in Two Worlds (1961).
In France, she met a history professor, fell in love, and within a few months she and Charles Le Guin were married. She moved around with her husband's teaching jobs, and she wrote poetry. Over the course of 10 years she wrote five novels, none of which were published. Publishers in the 1950s thought her writing was too "remote." So she began to write science fiction. She has published more than 100 short stories, 20 novels, 11 children's books, six volumes of poetry, and four volumes of translation. She's best known for her Earthsea books, a fantasy series that takes place in a world populated by wizards and dragons. She also wrote the Hainish Cycle—science fiction novels set in an imaginary universe where the residents are genderless. The Writer’s Almanac