by zippetydude » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:04 pm
Peaks named after important people? What a great idea! There's been a rather odd system in place in the past. I stumbled across this:
Jean Peak (10,670 feet, 3252 metres) and Marion Mountain (10,362 feet, 3158 metres). These peaks were named in 1897 by USGS topographer Edmund Taylor Perkins, Jr. Perkins named Jean Peak for his sweetheart and future bride, Jean Waters of Plumas County, whom he married in 1903. He named Marion Mountain after Marion Kelly, his girlfriend, a teacher for the Indian Bureau at the Morongo Valley Reservation. According to a local legend, Perkins spent the summer of 1897 deciding which woman to marry as he conducted his topographical survey of San Jacinto Peak and its environs.
Talk about taking your problems at home to work with you!
z