Daily Genealogist

HENOPHON (m): The name likely formed when someone who had never heard of the Greek historian XENOPHON misread the elaborate script initial “X” used in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century handwriting. The 1850 census lists nine Henophons, including Henophon Cook (b. 1835) of Smith, Pennsylvania; Henophon Tingley (b. 1844) of Providence, Rhode Island; and Henophon Wilmot (b. 1828) of Marshall, Illinois.