New York, Barre (city), Vermont and Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician) Barrington, New Hampshire and Barrington, Rhode Island – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts) Barron, Wisconsin – Henry D. Barron (judge) Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president) Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner) Barton, Vermont – General William Barton Bartow, Florida and Bartow, Georgia – Francis S. Bartow (Confederate general) Bastrop, Louisiana and Bastrop, Texas – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman) Batesville, Arkansas – James Woodson Bates Batesville, Ohio – Rev. Timothy Bates Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath Bath, New York – Henrietta Pulteney, Countess of Bath Battleboro, North Carolina – James S. and Joseph Battle (railroaders) Bayard, West Virginia – Thomas F. Bayard (U.S. Senator from Delaware) Bayfield, Wisconsin – Rear Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield Bay St. Louis, Mississippi – Louis IX of France Beacon, Iowa – Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler) Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner) Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler) Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster) Beattie, Kansas – A. Beattie (mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri) Beattyville, Kentucky – Samuel Beatty (settler) Beaufort, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort Beauregard, Mississippi – P. G. T. Beauregard (Confederate general) Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official) Becker, Minnesota – George Loomis Becker (mayor of Saint Paul) Beckley, West Virginia – Gen. Alfred Beckley (settler) Beckwourth, California – James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler Bedford, Massachusetts – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford Bedford, New Hampshire and Bedford, Virginia – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford Bedford, Tennessee – Thomas Bedford Beebe, Arkansas – Roswell Beebe (settler) Beecher City, Illinois – Charles A. Beecher (railroader) Beekman, New York – Henry Beekman (landowner) Beekmantown, New York – William Beekman (landowner) Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) (indirectly, via Bee County, Texas) Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey) Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster) Belleville, Kansas – Arabelle Tutton (landowner's wife) Bellingham, Massachusetts –