Mount Northrop is a peak in the Sawtooth Mountains of northeastern

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. Its elevation is above sea level, or about above Kekekabic Lake. It was named for Cyrus Northrop, who was the president of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

from 1884 until 1911.Upham, Warren (2001) Minnesota Place Names, A Geographical Encyclopedia, Third Edition, p316; MHS Press;

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