Mabton, Yakima County, Washington

"Mabton, a town on the Northern Pacific Railway in the southeastern part of Yakima County. The origin of the name is said to be unknown in the town...Twenty years ago while railroad trouble held a train at the then bleak station, Mrs. Mabel Baker Anderson, wife of Professor L.F. Anderson of Whitman College, said the station had been named in her honor. Mrs. Anderson was the daughter of Dr. Dorsey S. Baker, pioneer railroad builder of Walla Walla. Though she ahd traveled much in America and Europe, Mrs. Anderson's home was always in Walla Walla. She died there August 16, 1915."
The origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923

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