Morris (statesman) Morris Plains, New Jersey – Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey) Morris Township, New Jersey – Lewis Morris Morristown, New Jersey – Lewis Morris Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania – Robert Morris (financier) Morrow, Ohio – Gov. Jeremiah Morrow Morton Grove, Illinois – Levi P. Morton Moses Lake, Washington – Chief Moses (Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia) Moss, Monterey County, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner) Moss Landing, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner) Moultonborough, New Hampshire – Colonel Jonathan Moulton and others in his family Moultrie, Georgia – Gen. William Moultrie Moultrieville, South Carolina – Gen. William Moultrie Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion") Mount Madison (New Hampshire) – James Madison Mount Marcy (New York) – Gov. William L. Marcy Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) – Elisha Mitchell (surveyor) Mount Monroe (New Hampshire) – James Monroe Mount Moran (Wyoming) – Thomas Moran (artist) Mount Morris, New York – Thomas Morris (resident of Philadelphia) Mount Pulaski, Illinois – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero) Mount Vernon, Missouri – Admiral Edward Vernon (indirectly, via Mount Vernon) Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts – George Washington Muir, Michigan – W.K. Muir (railroader) Muldrow, Oklahoma – Henry L. Muldrow (U.S. Representative) Mullan, Idaho – John Mullan (builder of Mullan Road, a wagon route) Mulvane, Kansas – John R. Mulvane (resident of Topeka) Mundy Township, Michigan – Lt. Gov. Edward Mundy Munfordville, Kentucky – Richard I. Munford (landowner) Munnsville, New York – Asa Munn (storekeeper) Murdo, South Dakota – Murdo MacKenzie (Texas cattleman) Murfreesboro, North Carolina and Murfreesboro, Tennessee – Col. Hardy Murfree Muroc, California – Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) – Muroc is Corum spelled backwards Murphy, North Carolina – A.D. Murphy (judge) Murphys, California – Daniel and John Murphy (early miners and settlers) Murray, California – David Murray (olive industry figure) Murray, Kentucky – John L. Murray (former Congressman from the area who had died two years before the city's incorporation in 1844) Murray, Utah – Eli Murray (territorial governor of Utah) Murrieta, California – Juan Murrieta (Rancher) Myerstown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Myers (founder) N Naperville, Illinois – Joseph Naper Napoleon, Michigan – Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon, Missouri – Napoleon Bonaparte Nashmead, California – J. Nash (first postmaster) Nashville, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee – Gen. Francis Nash Nashville, Ohio – Simon Nash (judge) Neals Diggins, California – Sam Neal (founder)