– Alexander Ault (flour mill owner) Aurelius, New York – Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor) Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler) Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin Ave Maria, Florida – Mary, mother of Jesus Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder) Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster) Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper) Axtell, Kansas – Dr. Jesse Axtell (officer of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway) Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer) B Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper) Bainbridge, New York – Commodore William Bainbridge Baird, Texas – Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works) Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) Baker City, Oregon – Senator Edward D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon) Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker Bakersfield, Vermont – Joseph Baker (landowner) Baldwin, Georgia – Abraham Baldwin (U.S. Senator) Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple) Baldwin, Michigan – Governor Henry P. Baldwin Baldwin, Chemung County, New York – Isaac, Thomas, and Walter Baldwin (settlers) Baldwin, Wisconsin – D.A. Baldwin (settler) Baldwin City, Kansas – John Baldwin Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler) Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader) Ballston, New York and Ballston Spa, New York – Rev. Eliphalet Ball (settler) Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore Banning, California – Phineas Banning, stagecoach line owner and Father of the Port of Los Angeles. Baraboo, Wisconsin – Jean Baribault (settler) Baraga, Michigan – Bishop Friedrich Baraga Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company) Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company) Barboursville, West Virginia – Philip P. Barbour (governor of Virginia) Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official) Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site Bargersville, Indiana – Jefferson Barger Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton Barker, Broome County, New York – John Barker (settler) Barlow, Oregon – John L. Barlow (settler) Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling) Barnes, Kansas – A.S. Barnes (publisher) Barnum, Denver, Colorado – P. T. Barnum (landowner) Barnwell, South Carolina – Barnwell family Barre, Massachusetts, Barre,