It is Provost, Like Provost of a College
It is Provost, Like Provost of a College Before anyone attempts to pronounce my last name, I remind them it sounds like a college administrator. It did not use to be Provost; rather, it was Prevost. [1] My paternal family name is French, and my grandfather was a genealogist who found descendants that trace back to the 1500s. Nonetheless, Leander Provost, my great-great-grandfather, was the first Provost to immigrate from Quebec to Holyoke, Massachusetts, sometime between 1861 and 1880 . [2] Not long after, my great-grandfather, Leo Provost was born in 1883. [3] My grandfather left me a letter after his death providing a sufficient amount of information on our family history. He stated that his father was a short but tough man that lived well into the 1970s. He worked at a shoe store making ends meet for his 11 children; in that time, he only had two boys, one dying at 56. The other was his youngest child Rich...