Place: CA-Young

Mt Young (Mt Whitney)   
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Description:
Rev. F. H. Wales climbed it on September 7, 1881, and named it “in honor of Professor Young, the noted astronomer, now at Princeton.” (Elliott: Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada, 1883, pp. 49-50.)
Charles Augustus Young (1834-1908); graduate of Dartmouth, 1853; professor of mathematics, Western Reserve, 1857-1866; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy, Dartmouth, 1866-1877; professor of astronomy, Princeton, 1877-1908. From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

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