Place: CA-Silliman

Silliman Crest (Lodgepole)   
(long, lat)
Sillman Peak (Lodgepole) 
(36.64330°N / 118.6956°W)
Sillman Pass (Lodgepole)

Description:

From Up and Down California by William Brewer     
MOUNT SILLIMAN
From a sketch by Charles F. Hoffmann

Named by Brewer’s party of the Whitney Survey, June, 1864, for Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864); B.A., M.A., Yale, 1796; M.D., Bowdoin, 1818; LL.D., Middlebury, 1826; professor of chemistry at Yale, 1802-1853; emeritus, 1853-1864; or for his son, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., (1816-1885); B.A., Yale, 1837; M.D., South Carolina Medical College, 1849; LL.D., Jefferson Medical College, Pa., 1884; professor of chemistry at Yale, 1846-1885; one of the founders of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University.
First ascent undoubtedly by members of the Survey, among whom were William H. Brewer, Clarence King, James T. Gardiner, and Charles F. Hoffmann. (Whitney Survey: Geology, 1865, pp. 376-377.) Climbed by S. L. N. Ellis in 1876. (Mount Whitney Club Journal, 1902, no. 1, pp. 31-35.)From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

Tuesday, June 28, we had a fine clear morning, and four of us started to visit a peak a few miles distant. We had a rough trail, over sharp ridges, and finally up a very steep pile of granite rocks, perhaps a thousand feet high, to the peak, which is over eleven thousand feet high, and which we called Mount Silliman, in honor of Professor Silliman, Junior.  From Up and Down California by William Brewer, Book 5  Chapter 2

 

Trips:

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References:

•  Tarol's Mt Silliman trip
• Summit Post
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