LEWIS, N.Y. (AP) - An Adirondack mountain has been renamed in honor of Inez Milholland, a human rights activist known for leading a suffrage parade astride a white horse on the eve of President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913.
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Board on Geographic Names approved naming a peak in the town of Lewis Mount Inez on Thursday, according to the National Women’s Law Center in Washington. The old name was Mount Discovery.
Milholland died in 1916 at the age of 30 during a cross-country trip promoting national candidates supporting women’s voting rights. She was buried near her family home in Lewis, not far from the mountain now bearing her name.
The town of Lewis renamed Mount Discovery as Mount Inez soon after her death, but a lack of follow-through at the federal level left the name unofficial. Nancy Duff Campbell, a part-time Lewis resident and a founder of the National Women’s Law Center, led the effort leading to the official renaming.
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