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Ronceverte might have been named Edgar, for the high number of Edgars who lived in the town, but the name was settled by a leading entrepreneur of the area, Cecil Clay, president of the St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company.

According to Clay, he saw the name on an old Jesuit map from Fort Duquesne.

His argument was the name " looked well in print and was euphonious in sound.