– Senator Robert N. Stanfield Stanley, North Carolina – Elwood Stanley (U.S. representative) Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard Stanton, Michigan – Edwin Stanton (Secretary of War) Stark, Kansas – General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois) Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York – General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die") Starkey, New York – John Starkey (settler) Starks, Maine – General John Stark Starksboro, Vermont – General John Stark Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner) Starkville, Mississippi – General John Stark Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner) Stephenson, Michigan – Robert Stephenson Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York) Sterling, Kansas – Sterling Rosan (settlers' father) Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling) Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner) Steuben, Maine and Steuben, New York – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Steubenville, Ohio – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Stevens Point, Wisconsin – J.D. Stevens (missionary) Stevensville, Michigan – Thomas L. Stevens (founder) Stevensville, Montana – Isaac Stevens (1st governor of Washington Territory) Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner) Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name) Stewartsville, Missouri – Gov. Robert Marcellus Stewart Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner) Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official) Stilesville, Indiana – Jeremiah Stiles (proprietor) Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner) Stockton, 3 places in California, Missouri, and New York – Robert F. Stockton Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory) Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder) Stonewall, North Carolina – Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general) Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts) Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont) Stoutsville, Missouri – Robert P. Stout Stoystown, Pennsylvania – John Stoy (settler) Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford Stratham, New Hampshire – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling) Stratton, Vermont – Samuel Stratton (settler) Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts) Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president) Strother, Missouri – French Strother (professor) Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania – Col. Jacob Stroud (settler) Struthers, Ohio – Captain John Struthers (founder) Stuart, Nebraska – Peter Stuart (settler) Sturgeon, Missouri – Isaac Sturgeon (resident