[LeConte Memorial Lodge, Yosemite Valley [graphic] / photographed by H.E. Poehlman.] 1908.
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LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901
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Joseph LeConte, born in 1823, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841. He enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844 and received an M.D. in 1845. He married Elizabeth Caroline Nisbet in 1847 and established a medical practice in Macon. Because his first love was geology, however, he enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1850 to study with the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz. Upon completing his studies in 1851 he returned to Georgia and became...
Poehlman, H. E.
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The LeConte Memorial Lodge was built by the Sierra Club in 1903-04 in honor of University of California geologist Joseph LeConte. LeConte was an early director of the Club. The Lodge was Yosemite Valley's first public information center. From the description of [LeConte Memorial Lodge, Yosemite Valley [graphic] / photographed by H.E. Poehlman.] 1908. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 85832086 ...
Sierra club
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"The dedication of the new Lodge at Horse Camp, Mount Shasta took place at high noon on Fourth of July 1923... The crowning event was when Miss Harwood of Los Angeles stepped forward and with much vim and enthusiasm pronounced the words: 'I christen thee Shasta Alpine Lodge (crash went the bottle of Shasta Ginger Ale on the stone doorway) and dedicate thee to all lovers of the great out-of doors...'" (Sierra Club Circular, Sept. 1, 1923, p. 1). From the description of Sierra Club mou...
