Excerpts from:
Meany, Edmond S., 1917, History of the Adams-St. Helens Region, IN:
The Mountaineer, December 1917, vol.X, p.26-28.
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A.G. Aiken, Edward J. Allen, and Andrew J. Burge are given credit for the first ascent of Mount Adams.
Mr. George H. Himes wrote in Steel Points, ca.1907, and re-told in an article by Edmond S. Meany titled "History of the Adams-St. Helens Region (The Mountaineer, December 1917):
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"In conversation with Mr. A.G. Aiken, of Marshfield, Coos County Oregon (who, by the way, was in the same train to which I belonged while crossing the plains in 1853), I learned that Edward J. Allen, Andrew J. Burge and himself made the ascent late in August or early in September, 1854. These persons belonged to a party of men who left Steilacoom a few weeks before the ascent was made to work on the military road that was then being constructed by government authority from the Columbia River through the Naches Pass to Puget Sound, following generally the trail pertially made by the immigrant party of the fall of 1853. It was while this company was camped a few miles northeast of the base of Mount Adams that the three above-mentioned persons decided to make the climb. As I have ahd a personal acquaintance with all three men, I have no doubt as to the fact of their making a successful ascent."
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Edmund Meany in the 1917 The Mountaineer goes on to say:
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"If any of those three men kept diaries or wrote letters about their climb, such writings may yet come to light. If not, this record rescued by Mr. Himes will probably have to stand as the account of the first ascent of Mount Adams."
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