Talk:List of places named for Lewis Cass

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Several of these items seem like a stretch

For instance, Cass Street Bar & Grill, Cass Records, Cass Corridor. While these may be named after streets that were named after Lewis Cass, it seems quite a stretch to say that they themselves were named after him. In the case of Cass Street Bar & Grill in San Diego, for instance, I would suspect the founders had no idea who Lewis Cass was. I don't think that everything with 'Cass' in its name belongs in this list. Unless someone can provide a source that says these places were actually named after Cass, rather than after a street/city/county/whatever that happened to be named after him, I don't think they qualify for inclusion and I am going to delete them. -Sarcasmboy 02:28, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the following entries, either because they are explicitly not named after Lewis Cass, because there is no evidence that they are, or because they are named after some other entity that is itself named after him. Being "named for" someone is an explicit action, and it is not transitive -- if there is a Cass County named after Lewis Cass, one can't then say that everything in that county with "Cass" in its name was named after him as well without evidence that it was done so intentionally.

Cass Scenic Mountain Railroad, West Virginia

Named after the town of Cass

Cass Corridor Detroit, Michigan^{[citation needed]}

Named after Cass Avenue

Cass Records, Detroit, Michigan^{[citation needed]}

No evidence at all that it is named after Lewis Cass

Cass Street Bar & Grill, San Diego, California^{[citation needed]}

Named after Cass Street

Cass Lake, Minnesota

Named after geographical entity of Cass Lake (see citation for that entry)

Cass County, North Dakota - named for George Washington Cass

This one says right in the entry it's not named after Lewis Cass.

-Sarcasmboy 02:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and also, the lack of citations - for every single one of these simple factual claims - is worrying. How do we know these places were not names for other people named Cass without clear supporting evidence? Huw Powell (talk) 02:42, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]