Description
On west side of Mendenhall Glacier, 3 mi. NW of Mendenhall Lake and 13 mi NW of Juneau; Coast Mountains.
History
Named in 1931 byU.S. Forest Service (USFS)for Elmer John (Stroller) White, 1859-1930, a Douglas and Juneau newspaper publisher, who was born in Ohio. He went to Alaska in 1898 and worked for the Skagway New, published the Whitehorse Star, and purchased the Douglas Island News. In 1917 he moved to Juneau where he published the Strollers Weekly. In 1918 he was appointed Chief of the Territorial Bureau of Publicity and later was served as Speaker of the Territorial House of Representatives (DeArmond, 1957, p.41,42).