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Josephine County, provided that Sailor Diggings was to be the county seat until the next county election. Waldo was not mentioned. This may mean that Sailor Diggings was also a specific place, or it may mean that the two names referred to the same locality. It is late in the day to determine the situation exactly. The name Sailor Diggings passed out of use; Waldo survived. Reports that Waldo was named for Daniel do vas name is Danis Waldo, prominent Oregon pioneer of 1843, do not seem to be true. Daniel W. Bass, a grandson of Daniel Waldo and a prominent citizen of Seattle, wrote the compiler in 1928 that the Josephine County town was named for William Waldo, brother of Daniel Waldo. William Waldo was nominated for governor of California by the Whig party in 1853. He had been of service to settlers and miners in northern California and the residents of what was later Waldo, Oregon, close to the state line, all voted for William Waldo with the notion that they were actually living in California. This origin of the name is confirmed by Walling in his History of Southern Oregon. There is nothing to indicate that Daniel Waldo ever held court in this part of Oregon. Waldo post office was established on September 4, 1856, with Lyman H. Guthrie first postmaster. Waldo Hills, Marion County. The Waldo Hills are western foothills of the Cascade Range and lie east of Salem. Their geography is well shown on the USGS map of the Stayton quadrangle. They were named for Daniel Waldo who was born in Virginia in 1800; died at Salem September 6, 1880. For his funeral eulogy, by J. W. Nesmith, see the Oregonian, September 11, 1880; biography, by T. T. Geer, ibid., May 7, 1905, page 19. He was a companion of the Applegates in the migration to Oregon in 1843. He was a member of the legislative committee of the provisional government in 1844, and a district judge for Champooick district in that government. He was a highly respected pioneer. "His name will be remembered as a synonym for independence and integrity" (Matthew P. Deady, Pioneer Address, 1875). Two of his sons, William and John B., were prominent in Oregon affairs. His daughters married James Brown, Samuel Bass and David Logan. In earliest pioneer days the name Waldo Hills was not generally used; the locality was referred to as the Waldo Settlement. The area was also called Lebanon, and Lebanon post office was in operation at a point about twelve miles cast of Salem from 1851 to 1858. The name Lebanon was absorbed by the place in Linn County.

WALDO LAKE, Lane County. This is one of the largest mountain lakes in the state, and lies in the Cascade Range at an elevation of 5410 feet. The geography of the lake and its surroundings is shown on the

USGS map of the Waldo Lake quadrangle. The lake was named for Judge John B. Waldo, son of Daniel Waldo for whom the Waldo Hills were named. Judge Waldo sought his recreation in the Cascade Range, and Waldo Glacier on the southeast slope of Mount Jefferson was also named for him. Judge Waldo died September 2, 1907. This lake and others nearby were shown as the Virgin Lakes on a map dated August 24, 1863, by the surveyor general of Oregon. Frank S. Warner, a pioneer resident of Lane County, in a letter printed in the Oregonian, September 6, 1927, says that Waldo Lake was discovered by Charlie Tufti, and that its early name was Pengra Lake, for B. J. Pengra. Pengra was a pioneer railroad enthusiast, and championed the construction of a line approximately in the present location of the Cascade line of the Southern Pacific.