Sunday, January 18, 1970

Place: CA-Rafferty

Rafferty Creek, Peak (11,120') (Tuolumne Meadows 15')
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Captain Ogden Rafferty (1860-1922), Medical Corps, U. S. Army; A. B., Princeton, 1882; M. D., Columbia University, 1885; army surgeon, 1888; captain, 1893; major, 1901; lieutenant-colonel (retired), 1910. Name given by Lieutenant McClure in 1895, when he was accompanied by Captain Rafferty on a patrol of Yosemite National Park. (N. F. McClure.)  From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

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