Ebenezer Emmons

Ebenezer Emmons (May 16, 1799 – October 1, 1863), was an American geologist whose work includes the naming of the Adirondack Mountains in New York as well as a first ascent of Mount Marcy.

In 1824, he assisted Chester Dewey in preparing a geological map of Berkshire County, in which the first attempt was made to classify the rocks of the Taconic area.

[2][1][3] Emmons was designated by Jules Marcou as the founder of American Paleozoic stratigraphy, and the first discoverer of the primordial fauna in any country.

[2][4][better source needed] Emmons contributed to a series of volumes on the Natural History of New York (1848), writing about agriculture and geological topics.

As a result of the dispute, Emmons was banned from the practice of geology in the state of New York and sued Hall for slander and libel.

[6] While conducting a state-wide geological survey in 1857, he discovered a jawbone in the Egypt Coal Mine in Lee County that would be categorized as proto-mammal Dromatherium sylvestre.

His party was looking for the headwaters of the East Fork of the Hudson River which it claimed was at Lake Tear of the Clouds on the mountain.