Mount Northrop
Encyclopedia
Mount Northrop is a peak in the Sawtooth Mountains
of northeastern Minnesota
. Its elevation is 2000 feet (609.6 m) above sea level, or about 500 feet (152.4 m) above Kekequabic Lake. It was named for Cyrus Northrop
, who was the president of the University of Minnesota
from 1884 until 1911.
Sawtooth Mountains (Minnesota)
The Sawtooth Mountains are a range of low, serrated ridges situated on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the U.S. state of Minnesota, extending about 30 miles from Carlton Peak near Tofte on the west, to Grand Marais on the east.-Description:...
of northeastern Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. Its elevation is 2000 feet (609.6 m) above sea level, or about 500 feet (152.4 m) above Kekequabic Lake. It was named for Cyrus Northrop
Cyrus Northrop
Cyrus Northrop was an American university president.He was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1857 and at the law school there in 1859. Two years later he was appointed clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives and in 1862 clerk of the Senate...
, who was the president of the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
from 1884 until 1911.