Philemon Van Trump – 9/18/22
Philemon B. Van Trump was in the first party of European-Americans, in 1870, to summit Mount Rainier. He summited at least five other times, once guiding noted naturalist John Muir. When not at the mountain, he lived in Olympia and Yelm. In this photo from around 1911, he is shown here at Paradise Valley, holding…