My paternal great grandfather John C. Eggenberger may have been brought up hearing both French and German in his Wayne County, Ohio home in the 1870s, considering his parents were both immigrants from Switzerland; his mother from the French-speaking region of Eschert in Canton Bern and his father from the German-speaking region of Grabs, St. Gallen. But John's first official language was almost certainly (American) English, as was every other one of my great grandparents. However, there was one set of my maternal great grandparents who were saddled with the question of whether English was the most appropriate language for rearing two of their children. Chester Dean and his wife Beatrice were married in 1917 in Braxton, West Virginia. While their heritage could be traced back to many worldly places, the two were natural born citizens of the United States just like their parents before them. Chester only had an 8th grade education, and Beatrice only surpassed him by a few years, stay...