List of American Places Named After People - E

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• Earling, Iowa – Albert J. Earling, Milwaukee Road officer
• East St. Louis, Illinois – Saint Louis
• Eaton, New Hampshire – Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton
• Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood)
• Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley
• Eddington, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution)
• Edgartown, Massachusetts – Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
• Edgecomb, Maine – Lord Edgecomb (a supporter of the colonists)
• Edison, Georgia and Edison, New Jersey – Thomas Edison
• Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders)
• Edwardsville, Illinois – Ninian Edwards
• Effingham, New Hampshire – Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham
• El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner)
• Elbridge, New York – Elbridge Gerry
• Elizabeth, New Jersey – Lady Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret)
• Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers)
• Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes)
• Elkader, Iowa – Abd el-Kader (Algerian patriot)
• Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder)
• Ellenville, New York – Ellen Snyder (settler)
• Ellicott, New York – Joseph Ellicott (agent of the Holland Land Company)
• Ellicott City, Maryland – John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott (founders)
• Ellsworth, Maine and Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth
• Elmendorf, Texas – Henry Elmendorf (mayor of San Antonio)
• Elmore, Vermont – Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner)
• Ely's, California – Benjamin Ely (first post master)
• Elyria, Ohio – Heman Ely (1817)
• Emery, South Dakota – S.M. Emery (landowner)
• Emeryville, California – Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner)
• Emory, California – A. Emory Wishon (cement company official)
• Ennis, Montana – William Ennis (settler)
• Epperson, California – Brutus E Eperson (first postmaster)
• Errol, New Hampshire – James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
• Erving, Massachusetts – John Erving (early farmer landowner)
• Estes Park, Colorado – Joel Estes (founder)
• Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
• Eugene, Oregon – Eugene Franklin Skinner
• Eunice, Louisiana – Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of Curley Duson, the founder of the city)
• Eustis, Maine – Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor)
• Evan's Ranch, California – Alvira Evans (first postmaster)
• Evans, Colorado – John Evans
• Evanston, Illinois – John Evans
• Evansville, Indiana – Robert Morgan Evans
• Evansville, Wyoming – W.T. Evans (blacksmith)
• Evelyn, California – Evelyn Smith (wife of Borax company official)
• Everett, Massachusetts – Edward Everett (politician and educator)
• Ewing Township, New Jersey – Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court)