I found another sentence, only one really, but thought I'd share anyway. It's found in Putnam County Pioneer Reminiscences, 1878-1887(in Ohio). "Blanchard River was so named from the fact that a man named Blanchard, was the first white man who traded along that stream with the Indians." While I was growing up and lived in Ottawa, Ohio, in Putnam County, this was not a stream but a river. We swam in it, ice skated on it, played along its banks, fished, etc. We had a great time there. Kathy Baker