John Muir (ILT) LawsJohn Muir, a Scottish-American naturalist, novelist, environmental philosophy, botanist, biologist, and glaciologist who lived from April 21, 1838, to December 24, 1914, was a leader in the fight to protect wild areas in the United States of America.He is also referred to as the "Father of the National Parks" and "John of the Mountains." In Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, there is a four-story stone home known as John Muir's Birthplace. His parents were Ann Gilrye and Daniel Muir. He was the third kid out of eight. Muir's family immigrated to the United States in 1849 and established a farm close to Portage, Wisconsin known as Fountain Lake Farm. When Muir was over 40 years old in 1878, his friends "pressured him to return to society." Louisa Strentzel, the daughter of a well-known physician and gardener, was introduced to him by Jeanne Carr not long after he returned to the Oakland region. At the age of 76, Muir passed away from pneumonia on December 24, 1914, at the California Hospital in Los Angeles. He had traveled to Daggett, California, to visit Helen Muir Funk, his daughter. Ross Hanna, his grandson, survived until 2014 before passing away at the age of 91, and his great-grandson also passed away in 2014 at the age of 91. Read More Read Less