216 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Morton; township and village in Tazewell County, Illinois, named for Marcus Mor- 
ton, governor of Massachusetts, 1840-1843. 
Morton; counties in Kansas and North Dakota, named for Oliver P. Morton, United 
States Senator from Indiana. 
Morton; village in Scott County, Mississippi, given the maiden name of the wife of ! 
Col. E. W. Taylor. 
Morven; town in Anson County, North Carolina, named from the mountain in 
Scotland. 
Moscow; town in Somerset County, Maine, and twenty-five other places, named 
from the city in Eussia. 
Moshannon; creek in Pennsylvania. A corruption of a Delaware Indian word 
meaning "elk creek." 
Mosinee; village in Marathon County, Wisconsin. Derived from the Indian word 
meaning "moose." 
Motley; county in Texas, named for Dr. William Motley, a signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. 
Moulton; town in Appanoose County, Iowa, named for an engineer on the Chicago, 
Burlington and Quincy Railroad. 
Moultonboro; town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, named for Col. Jonathan 
Moulton, one of the first settlers. 
Moultrie; county in Illinois, and fortification on Sullivan Island, in Charleston 
Harbor, South Carolina; 
Moultrieville; town in Charleston County, South Carolina. Named for Gen. 
William Moultrie, of Revolutionary fame. 
Mound; city in Linn County, ridge in McPherson County, and valley in Labette 
County, Kansas, so named on account of the topography of the country. 
Mound Bayou; town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, named for the Indian mounds 
on the bayou. 
Mound City; city in Pulaski County, Illinois, named from Indian mounds in the 
vicinity. 
Moundsville; city in Marshall County, West Virginia, so named because the largest 
mound of the mound builders is situated here. 
Mount Calvin; mountain in the Adirondacks in Essex County, New York, named 
for Verplanck Calvin, for several years superintendent of the Adirondack survey. 
Mount Carmel; city in Wabash County, Illinois, and seventeen other places, bear 
the name of the mountain in Palestine. 
Mount Carroll; township and city in Carroll County, Illinois, named for Charles 
Carroll, of Carrollton, Maryland. 
Mount Clemens; city in Macomb County, Michigan, named for Judge Christian 
Clemens, its founder. 
Mount Gilead; town in Montgomery County, North Carolina, named from a coun- 
try church. 
Mount Gilead; village in Morrow County, Ohio, named for the town in North 
Carolina. 
Mount Holly; town in Burlington County, New Jersey, named for an eminence 
covered with holly trees. 
Mount Hopkins; in the town of Williamstown, Berkshire County, -Massachusetts, 
named for the Rev. Dr. Mark Hopkins, for many years president of Williams 
College. 
Mount Horeb; in the town of Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, so 
called by the Shakers, who, in the eighteenth century, used the summit tor 
religious observances, after the manner of Horeb in Arabia, 
Mount Morris; township and village in Ogle County, Illinois, named forT. A. Mor- 
ris, a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, L836-1874. 
