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Talking about some original Indian naming patterns, Kelsie Harder said that “At the Grassy Meadow” might be one person's perception of a place, while “At the Chigger-Infested Patch” might be another's.
In his Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada , Kelsie Harder points out that when the explorers asked the Indians what a place was called, they responded “Canada.”
Other notables in this necessarily brief catalogue of American toponymists include Henry Gannett, working around the turn of the century, who compiled several state gazetteers and a still influential study on the origin of U.S. place names; H. L. Mencken, with several seminal chapters in his American Language (1936); and Kelsie Harder, whose Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976) remains the most reliable resource for place-name origins.
The contributors to Personal Names are Kelsie B. Harder, Herbert Barry & Aylene S. Harper, A. Ross Eckler, Penelope Scambly Schott, and Dorothy E. Litt. Harder's Literary Names Mainstreamed As Given Names is very insightful: How many parents realize that the currently popular Jennifer is derived from Guinevere (King Arthur's adulterous queen) or that the name Pamela became popular through Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1740)?