York – Jonas Earll Jr. (canal commissioner) (note the spelling) East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania – Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner) Eastland, Texas – M.W. Eastland Eastman, Georgia – W.P. Eastman Easton, Massachusetts – John Easton (colonial governor of Rhode Island) East St. Louis, Illinois – Saint Louis Eaton, Colorado – Benjamin H. and Aaron J. Eaton (millers) Eaton, New Hampshire – Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton Eaton, New York and Eaton, Ohio – Gen. William Eaton Eatonton, Georgia – Gen. William Eaton Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood) Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley Eckley, Colorado – Amos Eckles (cattlehand) Eddington, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution) Eddyville, Iowa – J.P. Eddy (postmaster) Eden, Texas – Fred Ede (landowner) Edgartown, Massachusetts – Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge Edgecomb, Maine – George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (a supporter of the colonists) (note the spelling) Edgerton, Ohio – Alfred Peck Edgerton Edgerton, Wisconsin – E.W. Edgerton (settler) Edison, 3 places in Georgia, New Jersey, and Ohio – Thomas Edison Edmeston, New York – Robert Edmeston (founder) Edna, Kansas – Edna Gragery (child who lived there) Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders) Edwards, Mississippi – Dick Edwards (Jackson hotelier) Edwards, New York – Edward McCormack (founder's brother) Edwardsport, Indiana – Edwards Wilkins Edwardsville, Illinois – Ninian Edwards (territorial governor) Effingham, Illinois and Effingham County, Illinois – Gen. Edward Effingham Effingham, Kansas – Effingham Nichols (railroader) Effingham, New Hampshire – Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham Egremont, Massachusetts – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont Ehrenberg, Arizona – Herman Ehrenberg (founder) El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner) Elberton, Georgia and Elbert County, Georgia – Gov. Samuel Elbert Elbridge, New York – Elbridge Gerry Elizabeth, New Jersey and Elizabethtown, North Carolina – Lady Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret) Elizabeth, Pennsylvania – Elizabeth Bayard (founder's wife) Elizabeth, West Virginia – Elizabeth Beauchamp Elizabeth City, North Carolina – Elizabeth I Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers) Elizabethtown, Indiana – Elizabeth Branham (founder's wife) Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes) Elkader, Iowa – Abd el-Kader (Algerian patriot) Elkins, West Virginia – Stephen Benton Elkins (U.S. Senator) Ellenburg, New York – Ellen Murray (landowner's daughter) Ellendale, Delaware – Ellen Prettyman (founder's wife) Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen