Places: CA-Clarence King

Clarence King Lake-11,765' (Mt Shasta)  (41.4125577,  -122.2244194)
Mount Clarence King-12,805' (Mount Clarence King)  (36.8332691, -118.4464872)

From Up and Down California by William Brewer     
Clarence King

Description:
Named by the Brewer party of the Whitney Survey in 1864 for Clarence King, a member of the party. (Whitney Survey: Geology, 1865, p. 392.) Clarence King: born at Newport, R. I., January 6, 1842; Yale (Sheffield) Scientific School, 1862; crossed the plains with James Terry Gardiner in 1863; served with Whitney and Brewer in California State Geological Survey, 1863-1866; in charge of Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel, 1867-1878; organized the United States Geological Survey and was its first chief, 1879-1881; subsequently mining geologist and traveler; intimate associate of John Hay and Henry Adams; died at Phoenix, Arizona, December 24, 1901. Published: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 1872, (first appeared in part in Atlantic Monthly, 1870; The Helmet of Mambrino, in Century Magazine, May, 1886; The Age of the Earth, in American Journal of Science, January, 1893; Systematic Geology, 1878; and others. (Clarence King Memoirs—The Helmet of Mamibrino, published for the King Memorial Committee of The Century Association, New York, 1904.—S. F. Emmons: The Life and Scientific Work of Clarence King, in Engineering and Mining Journal, January 4, 1902—U.S.G.S.: Twenty-third Annual Report, for 1902, pp. 198-206.—R. W. Raymond, in Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, XXXIII, 1903, pp. 619-650.—See, also, references to King in The Education of Henry Adams.
First ascent by Bolton Coit Brown, 1896. (S.C.B., 1897, II:2, pp. 94-97.)  From Place Names of the Sierra Nevada by Francis P. Farquhar

Clarence King (1842-1901) became perhaps the most widely known man connected with the Survey. From the moment of his meeting with Brewer he advanced directly and rapidly to the head of geological survey work in America. He served on the Whitney Survey until 1866, organized and directed the United States Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-78), and was largely responsible for the consolidation of various federal surveys into the United States Geological Survey, becoming its first chief (1879-81). His later career as a mining geologist was disappointing. He traveled extensively, was a connoisseur of art and literature, and was an intimate friend of John Hay and Henry Adams. Two of his publications indicate the position he might have attained in literature had he applied himself to writing:  Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada  (1872); and “The Helmet of Mambrino,” in  Century Magazine  (May, 1886). The latter was reprinted in  Clarence King Memoirs—The Helmet of Mambrino,  published for the King Memorial Committee of the Century Association, New York, 1904.  From Up and Down California by William Brewer, Book 4  Chapter 6

From GNIS about Mount Clarence King:

• On King Spur, 1.6 km (1 mi) north of Mount Cotter and 3.2 km (2 mi) north-northeast of Mount Gardiner. 
• Also named Mount King:  Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1949. p69
• Decision card: Named by the Brewer party of the Whitney Survey, 1864, for Clarence King, distinguished pioneer in American Geology;
  1919-U.S.G.S. Whitney Quad.
  1926-Farquhar, p. 53, which gives detailed description of King's achievements.
  1927-U.S.F.S.-Sequoia N. F. 

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