Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1919 — "Oh, Hannah!" [ARTICLE]

"Oh, Hannah!"

One of our “Indian*' names loses some of its flavor of romance under the investigation of Will, G. Steel, gazetteer, in Steel Points. 'He says that the musical name of Ne-wan-nah, In Clatsop county, Oregon, was derived from the circumstances that a pioneer of the place who employed several men also had a daughter named Hannah. One of the men presented her with a hat. which she did not appreciate, and his fellow workers made sport of him by calling to one another in his presence, “Oh, Hannah.” The term, Mr. Steel finds, finally became attached to the stream as O’Hannah, subsequently becoming Newannah. The word is also said to be Indian for ••waterfall,” but probably this is only a coincidence, for Mr.' Steel gives full credence to the “Oh, Hannah” version.