Some residents claim that, independent of the truth of the Mussie legend, the legend's origins are older: supposedly, early settler Samuel de Champlain wrote of the creature's existence in the early seventeenth century.
Randy Hoover, a commercial photographer, was an early settler.
MacDonald, an early settler, established Emerald Downs station (ranch) in the 1860s.
It probably was named for Isaac Green, an early settler of the area.
"Get yourself over here!" the dealer Barbara Gladstone, an early settler, told him.
Newberry county was organized in 1785 and probably named for an early settler.
In 1930, residents voted to change the name to Travis, for Col. Jacob Travis, an early settler.
It was named for Reuben S. Branson, an early settler who opened a store and post office there about 1882.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio he was a grandson of Charles William Bingham, an early settler of Palm Beach.
It was best to have the same last name as an early settler, since patrilineal connections were considered more important.
It was not 1856; an early settler, Richard Cornell, built a home in Far Rockaway in 1690.
