Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, and Wisconsin – Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry" Osceola County, 3 places in Florida, Iowa, and Michigan – Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry" Oskaloosa, Iowa and Oskaloosa, Kansas – Oskaloosa (wife of the Native American chief Mahaska) Oshkosh, Wisconsin – Chief Oshkosh Otis, Maine – James Otis Jr. (proprietor) Otis, Massachusetts – Harrison Gray Otis Otisfield, Maine – James Otis, Jr. (grantee) Otisville, Michigan – Byron Otis (settler) Otisville, New York – Isaac Otis (settler) Otto, New York – Jacob S. Otto (land agent) Ouray, Colorado – Ouray (Ute chief) Ovid, Colorado – Newton Ovid (local resident) Ovid, Michigan and Ovid (town), New York – Ovid (poet) Owensboro, Kentucky – Abraham Owen Owingsville, Kentucky – Col. T.D. Owings Oxnard, California – Henry, Ben, James and Robert Oxnard P Pacheco, California – Salvio Pacheco Paddock, Holt County, Nebraska – Algernon Paddock (U.S. Senator) Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler) Palmer, Massachusetts – Thomas Palmer (judge) Palmer, Michigan – Waterman Palmer (founder) Palmer Lake, Colorado – Gen. William Jackson Palmer Pamelia, New York – Pamelia Brown (wife of Gen. Jacob Brown) Papinville, Missouri – Pierre Papin Paragould, Arkansas – W.J. Paramore and Jay Gould (railroaders) Pardeeville, Wisconsin – John S. Pardee (founder) Paris, New York – Isaac Paris (merchant) Parish, New York – David Parish (landowner) Parishville, New York – David Parish (landowner) Parker, Kansas – J.W. Parker (landowner) Parkersburg, West Virginia – Alexander Parker Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor) Parkman, Wyoming – Francis Parkman (historian) Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling) Parkville, Missouri – George S. Park (founder) Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster) Parry Peak (Colorado) – Charles Christopher Parry (botanist) Parsons, Kansas – Levi Parsons (judge and railroader) Parsonsfield, Maine – Thomas Parsons (proprietor) Pasco County, Florida – Samuel Pasco, United States Senator from Florida Paterson, New Jersey – William Paterson Patten, Maine – Amos Patten (settler) Patterson, New York – Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling) Patton Township, Pennsylvania – Colonel John Patton (co-owner) Paulding, Mississippi and Paulding, Ohio – John Paulding (Revolutionary War soldier) Paulsboro, New Jersey – Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler) Pawling, New York – Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck) Paxton, Massachusetts – Charles