13 Facts About Theodore Solomons

Theodore Seixas Solomons was an American explorer and early member of the Sierra Club.

Theodore Solomons was instrumental in envisioning, exploring, and establishing the route of what became the John Muir Trail from Yosemite Valley along the crest of the Sierra Nevada to Mount Whitney.

Theodore Solomons was born in San Francisco, California, on July 20,1870, the second son and the fifth of seven children of Hannah Marks, an influential San Francisco educator and civic worker and Gershom Mendes Seixas Solomons.

Theodore Solomons had relocated to San Francisco from New York City during the Gold Rush, and founded Congregation Emanu-El in 1854.

Theodore Solomons was the first president of any West Coast lodge of B'nai B'rith.

Theodore Solomons's great-grandfather was Gershom Mendes Seixas, of Portuguese-Jewish descent, the "Patriot Rabbi", the first native-born Rabbi in the United States.

Theodore Solomons married as his first wife, on March 29,1901, at Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada, Rozella M Gould of Dawson Creek.

Theodore Solomons married on January 8,1909, in New York City, as his second wife, Katherine Gray Church, born on May 6,1881, in New York City the only daughter of Henry Seymour Church and Margaretta Josephine Gray.

Theodore Solomons died on February 7,1971, in Cherryland, Alameda County, California.

Theodore Solomons's mother, a published writer and singer, was born into a family with deep New England roots that trace back to the Rev Mr Blackleach Burritt, and Governor Thomas Welles.

In 1895, Solomons took his most notable trip, accompanied by Ernest C Bonner.

Theodore Solomons' excursions in the next two years added details to the knowledge of Sierra topography, but his principal contribution was an accurate map which he drafted and presented to the Sierra Club in 1896.

Theodore Solomons died in Los Angeles, California, on May 27,1947.