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Who is Spencers Butte in Eugene Oregon named for?

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Who is Spencers Butte in Eugene Oregon named for?

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Two versions. One is that Dr. Elijah White said he named it, for John C. Spencer, the then U.S. Secretary of War. A later version says it was named for a Hudson’s Bay employee named Spencer who was killed ther by Indians.

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