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103 a prominent Coos County pioneer. The office was at the Cass Hermann stock ranch on the mail road south from Myrtle Point to Eckley, Curry County, and was in the hills just north of the head of Rowland Creek. Custer Hermann did not live to maturity. Custer post office was established July 19, 1893, with Cass M. Hermann first and only postmaster. *The office was closed May 17, 1901. A. H. Bender of Myrtle Point, a nephew of Cass M. Hermann, sent in the information about this name.

, Lincoln County. Cutler City, just south of Taft and on the east shore of Siletz Bay, has had a remarkable development as a resort town. It was started by Mr. and Mrs. George Cutler, who are said to have acquired the property from "Uncle Charley" DePoe, a Siletz Indian. The Cutlers formerly lived near Dallas. Mr. Cutler died in 1913 and Mrs. Cutler in 1939. For obituary of Mrs. Cutler, see Oregon Journal for June 19, 1939.

, Wallowa County. Dad Spring is in section 19, township 2 north, range 50 east. It was named for Elbert B. Wilson, who was generally known as Dad or Snake River Wilson. He came to Wallowa County in July, 1900, and ranged cattle near this spring in the summers. This spring was at one time known as Brigham Spring because it was on Mormon Flat.

, Klamath County. This place was named by William Roberts, pioneer settler. He is said to have lived in the Rogue River country and also in the Klamath country as early as 1865. He selected the word Dairy because he had previously lived in a community by that name in an eastern state. The post office of Dairy was first established May 8, 1876, with Roberts postmaster. The valley in which Dairy is situated was at one time known as Alkali Valley, but now bears its Klamath Indian name, Yonna Valley. See under that name.

, Multnomah County. Dairy Creek is on the east part of Sauvie Island. It drains Marquam Lake into Columbia River. It was named for a small dairy operated nearby by a French-Canadian employee of the Hudson's Bay Company. This was in pioneer days. For additional data see under.

, Washington County. Dairy Creek and its tributaries are an important part of the Tualatin River drainage. The main stream is formed by two long branches which join a few miles northeast of Forest Grove. West Fork Dairy Creek rises near Buxton and East Fork Dairy Creek rises in the extreme south part of Columbia County north of Mountaindale. Dairy Creek has been so called for a long time. While the evidence is not positive, it is probable that the stream was named by employees of the Hudson's Bay Company during the fur trading period. The company operated a dairy on what is now Dairy Creek, but the compiler does not know the exact location. On July 5, 1882, George B. Roberts, retired Hudson's Bay Company employee, wrote to Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor: "Wyeth's Fort William ... was located with the view to easy communication with the Tualatin plains. Our people used that road over the hills and we had a dairy there on what is now called Dairy creek." Roberts is referring to the Logie Trail. The date the dairy was established is uncertain, but by inference it must have been prior to 1840.

, Jackson County. In September, 1847, Miss Venita Daley of Medford sent the compiler data about her grandfather, William Carter Daley, and the geographic features in the east part of Jackson