Kingman Henry Selden

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Henry Selden Kingman (1894-1968)
Henry Kingman died on 12 December, following surgery at the age of 74. He was a leading banker, a former president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks and honorary chairman of the Farmers and Mechanics Saving Bank, of Minneapolis, of which he was president 1937-57, then becoming board chairman. He was a graduate of Amherst, and a lifetime trustee of the college. He was also a trustee of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, N.Y., and a director of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, as well as of General Mills. During the First World War he served in the French artillery and received the Croix de Guerre.
He joined the Alpine Club in 1938, but had become a member of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1930 and of the American Alpine Club in the following year, giving valuable assistance to its Finance Committee. He was an expert skier and in 193 I took part in a ski expedition from Lake Louise to the Columbia Icefield and return. He climbed extensively in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks and, to a lesser extent, in the Alps. In Canada he made the second ascents of Mounts Unwin and Charlton from Maligne lake (1929) and accompanied the present writer, with Conrad Kain as guide, when from Peyto lake we made first ascents of Peyto, Mistaya, Trapper and Barbette, completing the tour with a long glacier traverse across the watershed from Peyto lake to Yoho valley. In 1934 we visited the Freshfield group and Bush pass, a season of bad weather when our only successes were first ascents of Mounts Garth and Valenciennes. In 1936 he made the first ascent of Mount Weed. Kingman's enjoyment of life on the Canadian trails made him a most pleasant companion, and his death is a great loss to his many friends.
J. Monroe Thorington
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 74, 1969, Seite 392-393


Geboren am:
1894
Gestorben am:
12.12.1968