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County, Missouri, November 30, 1830, and died at Salem, November 8, 1919. He fought in the Mexican War and arrived in Oregon in 1852, by way of California. He packed goods to the mines and engaged in other business, and settled on a homestead in Tygh Valley. He built Sherars Bridge in 1860 and rebuilt it later. Todd later moved to the Farewell Bend ranch at the present site of Bend and lived in that vicinity for many years. For additional data, see OHQ, volume XXX, page 70.

TOKETEE Falls, Douglas County. These falls are on the North Umpqua at the mouth of the Clearwater. Toketee is the Chinook jargon word for pretty, or graceful. The word is pronounced Tuck-et-tee, with the accent on the first syllable.

TOLEDO, Lincoln County. Toledo is on the homestead of John Graham, a pioneer resident, who emigrated from Ohio. It is said that when the post office was established in 1868, Joseph D. Graham, a son, was told that he could name the place. He said: "I am homesick for Ohio. We will call the place Toledo." Toledo post office was established on July 14, 1868, with William Mackey first postmaster.

TOLLGATE, Umatilla County. Sometime in the '70s the proprietor of the toll road over the Blue Mountains in the northeast part of the county established a toll gate and for many years the locality of this barrier was called Tollgate. With the development of Langdon Lake close by, the name Langdon Lake came into general use as the locality name. However, when a post office was established in September, 1941, the old name Tollgate was revived and used for the post office. Mrs. Harry (Gertie) Hunter was the first postmaster. The toll road was generally referred to as the Woodward road. Its west end was at the junction of the Lincton and Weston mountain roads and the southeast terminus was at Summerville. The gate was at the Woodward meadow in section 32, township 4 north, range 38 east. The meadow is the site of the Tollgate Ranger Station of the U. S. Forest Service. The locality is now on the main Weston-Elgin highway. Tolo, Jackson County. Will G. Steel is authority for the statement that this place was named in error by postal authorities. Cleophas C. Ragsdale, formery a resident of Yolo, California, was living in Willow Springs, Oregon, in 1885, and as he disliked the commonplace name of his adopted home, he petitioned to have it changed to Yolo. The Y was misread as a T in Washington, and on March 30, 1886, postal authorities changed the name of the office from Willow Springs to Tolo, and so it has been ever since. Yolo or Yolay was the name of an Indian tribe in California. The word is said to mean a place abounding in rushes. Willow Springs post office was established August 12, 1864, with Samuel P. Dean first postmaster.

TOLOVANA Park, Clatsop County. Tolovana Park is a place on Cannon Beach, named for Tolovana, Alaska. The town in Alaska is on Tanana River, about a hundred miles above Fort Gibbon, established in 1905 as a telegraph station and post ofhce. This Indian name was selected by the Signal Corps, but the compiler has been unable to get the exact meaning. Some say it is an Indian tribe name, others that it means a wooded country and another version is that it means a pile of driftwood or log jam. Mark Warren and his brother, William E. Warren, spent some time in central Alaska, and, after their return, they platted prop