Mt. Senger

Sat, Oct 27, 2007

With: Matthew Holliman

Etymology

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Mt. Senger (12,286 ft.)

Named by T.S. Solomons in 1894

Also Creek

"The mountain was named in 1894 by Theodore S. Solomons for Joachim Henry Senger (1848-1926), one of the four founders of the Sierra Club. (Farquhar: Solomons. The other three were John Muir, Warren Olney, and William D. Armes. See SCB 10, no. 2, Jan. 1917: 135-4.) Born in Prussia, Senger came to California in 1882, and was later professor of German and Greek at the University of California. (Memorial by J. N. LeConte in SCB 12, no. 4, 1927: 428.) Both the mountain and the creek are named on the first Mt. Goddard 30' map, 1912."
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

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