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Man," a euphemism for gentleman gambler. Marshall Station was about two miles west of the present business district of Pendleton. About 1863 Marshall Station was known as Middleton because it was believed to be about half way between Umatilla Landing and the Grande Ronde Valley. When Umatilla County was created in 1862, the temporary seat of government was put at Marshall Station. See under UMATILLA COUNTY, and also Fred Lockley's article in Sunday Journal, June 3, 1945. Marshall post office was established April 21, 1865, with Jonathan Swift postmaster. The name of the office was changed to Pendleton on October 8, 1869.

PENGRA, Deschutes County. Pengra post office was established on the Crook County list January 18, 1886, with Walter O'Neil postmaster. The office was closed December 22, 1888, with papers to Crater. Crater was an office a little to the southwest of Lava Butte and just north of the Vandervert ranch, close to Deschutes River. According to the Polk Gazetteer of 1889-90, Pengra was ten miles south of Crater, at or close to the present site of Lapine. B. J. Pengra had some interests in that locality and the office was obviously named for him.

PENGRA, Lane County. Pengra is a station on the Cascade line of the Southern Pacific Company. It was named for B. J. Pengra, a pioneer of 1853, who was for a time a newspaper publisher, and in 1862 surveyor general for Oregon. He was an advocate of the Humboldt or Winnemucca railroad route from the Willamette Valley. Pengra had charge of the construction of the military road up Middle Fork Willamette River. He died at Coburg September 18, 1903. For many references to his activities, see Scott's History of the Oregon Country.

PENGRA Pass, Klamath and Lane counties. The USBGN, at the suggestion of the compiler of this book, adopted on November 2, 1927, the name Pengra Pass for the pass in the Cascade Range just west of Odell Lake. This is the pass used by the Cascade line of the Southern Pacific Company and by the Willamette Highway. This action was taken in honor of B. J. Pengra, one of Oregon's pioneer railroad enthusiasts and an early advocate of a railroad from the Willamette Valley across the Cascade Range to Nevada. It was therefore thought proper that an important strategic point in the Cascade Range should be named in his honor. The proposal made by the compiler was approved by the government bureau concerned. At the time the compiler suggested the name Pengra Pass for this feature, he did not know that B. . Pengra was its actual discoverer. The Oregon Historical Society has been provided with part of a report by Pengra, who, with W. H. Odell, made a reconnaissance of the Diamond Peak region for the Oregon Central Military Road in July, 1865. Writing as of July 21, 1865, Pengra mentions the probability of a good pass to the north of Diamond Peak. On July 27 Pengra and Odell visited Odell Lake and Pengra confirmed his belief that there was a good pass through the Cascade Range at this point. He gives the elevation of the pass as 5000 feet, or 600 feet lower than Willamette Pass west of Summit Lake. Both of these observations are remarkably correct. For editorial comment on B. J. Pengra and pass in Oregon named for him, see the Oregonian, December 11, 1927.

PENINSULAR, Multnomah County. Peninsular post office was established April 25, 1890, with Anna B. Lyman first postmaster, to serve a growing suburban area that was later taken into Portland. The name