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8, 1850, with O'Neal postmaster. The name was changed to Nesmiths on August 21, 1850, with J. W. Nesmith postmaster. The office was discontinued October 22, 1852. Due to the length of time necessary to communicate with Washington, D. C., O'Neal's appointment may have been made after he had sold the mill. Reuben P. Boise came to Oregon in 1850, and took up a donation land claim at Nesmiths Mills in 1852. He named the place Ellendale for his wife, Ellen Lyon, a native of Massachusetts, who sailed from New York to San Francisco in the record time of 89 days on the Flying Cloud. The original Nesmith house at Ellendale is still owned by the Boise family. The mill fiume took water from the creek on the south side and crossed to the north side near the present county bridge. One of Oregon's pioneer woolen mills was started in Ellendale in 1860. See Lomax, Pioneer Woolen Mills in Oregon.

ELLIOTT, Coos County. Elliott post office was on the property of James K. Polk Elliott near Catching Creek a few miles southwest of Myrtle Point. Elliott post office was established September 24, 1883, and was discontinued September 11, 1897. J. K. P. Elliott was the only postmaster. He was a prominent pioneer of the county.

ELLIOTT PRAIRIE, Clackamas County. This prairie lies east of Pudding River and Butte Creek. It was named for William Elliott, who came to Oregon in 1846. He was born in Indiana in 1815 and served in the Florida War in 1836. He married Nancy Sconce in 1838. He died at Park Place February 27, 1905. His wife died in 1888. Elliott served in the Cayuse and Yakima wars.

ELLIOTT STATE FOREST, Coos and Douglas counties. Elliott State Forest, consisting of 71,105 acres, was established through an exchange of state school grant lands which were widely scattered throughout the national forests for a solid block of federal forest lands, formerly known as the Millicoma Tract. The first move to establish a state forest by this means was made in 1913 by Governor Oswald West and State Forester F. A. Elliott. The exchange was not completed until 1929. Elliott died in 1930 and the forest was named to commemorate his work. This forest lay in the path of the historic Coos Bay fire of 1868, which left the land denuded for years. A study made in 1923 showed that only about half the area was stocked. Twelve years later a survey showed that more than 90 percent was stocked with western conifers, while most of the rest of the tract was producing maple, alder, myrtle, madrona, and cascara.

ELMIRA, Lane County. Amos F. Ellmaker, in 1925, informed the writer that Elmira was named by his brother, Byron Ellmaker, for Elmira, California, a place that he greatly admired. About 1884 Byron Ellmaker bought a location for a wood and iron smithy near the present site of Elmira, which was then called Duckworth. Ellmaker did not like this name, and persuaded postal authorities to change it to Elmira.

ELMONICA, Washington County. So named for Eleanor and Monica Stoy, daughters of Sam B. Stoy, who lived there in 1909. Stoy was an insurance man of Portland at the time and coined the name from the names of his two daughters.

ELOwah Falls, Multnomah County. These falls on McCord Creek were named by a committee representing the Mazamas and other organizations in 1915. The name is obviously Indian, but the writer has not been able to determine its meaning.

ELRUS, Lane County. This station, on the Coos Bay branch of the