Mt. Stanford
Mt. Morgan

Thu, Jul 19, 2001

With: Ron Burd

 Etymology
Mt. Stanford
 Story Photos / Slideshow Maps: 1 2 Profile
Mt. Morgan later climbed Thu, Jul 6, 2006

Mt. Stanford (12,838 ft.)

Named by R. B. Marshall in 1909

Also Lake

"The university was established in 1885 by Leland Stanford (1824-93), railroad builder, governor of California, and U. S. senator; it was named Leland Stanford Junior University in memory of Stanford's son, who had died the preceding year. Prof. Bolton C. Brown, who made the first ascent in Aug. 1896, named the peak Mount Stanford for the university. He suggested as an alternate name Stanford University Peak, if the name Mount Stanford should be declared ineligible because of another peak so named in Placer Co. However, the original Mount Stanford, which had been named by the Whitney Survey, was renamed as Castle Peak. Later, when the USGS mapped the Pioneer Basin region in 1907-09, its chief geographer, R. B. Marshall, named the four peaks of the divide in memory of the "Big Four" magnates of the Central Pacific Railroad: Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. So now there are, after all, two Mount Stanfords in the state."
- Erwin Gudde, California Place Names

More on Leland Stanford Sr.:

  • From Stanford University
  • Museum of the City of San Francisco (online)
  • PBS's The West (online)

    More of Bob's Trip Reports

    For more information see these SummitPost pages: Mt. Stanford - Mt. Morgan

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