Alden (farmer and landowner) Alden, Iowa – Henry Alden (settler) Alderson, West Virginia – John Alderson (settler and local minister) Alexander, New York – Alexander Rea (settler and state senator) Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton Alexandria, Nebraska – S.J. Alexander (secretary of state) Alexandria, New York and Alexandria Bay, New York – Alexander Le Ray (son of local settler) Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia) Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president) Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler) Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford Alfordsville, Indiana – James Alford (settler) Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great Alger, Ohio – Russell A. Alger Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch) Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker) Allendale, South Carolina – Allen family (settlers) Allenstown, New Hampshire – Samuel Allen (father of landowner and governor of New Hampshire) Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster) Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen Alloway Township, New Jersey – Chief Alloway Alma, Colorado – Alma James (wife of local merchant) Almont, Michigan – Juan Almonte Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling) Altheimer, Arkansas – Joseph and Louis Altheimer (founders) Alton, California – Alton Easton (indirectly, via Alton, Illinois) Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton) Alva, Florida – Thomas Alva Edison (inventor) Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California) Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler) Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector) Ambler, Pennsylvania – Joseph Ambler (settler) Amelia Court House, Virginia – Princess Amelia of Great Britain Ames, New York – Fisher Ames Amherst, New Hampshire -- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also Massachusetts and Maine) Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River) Anastasia Island, Florida – Saint Anastasia Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson Anderson, Kansas – Joseph C. Anderson (state legislator) Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner) Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant) Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny Anna, Illinois – Anna Davis (landowner's wife) Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ann Allen