One of these is that the river might have been named after 19th century French scientists, the Cloquet brothers Hipployte and Jules, with the settlement later being named after the river.
He was the brother of surgeon Jules Germain Cloquet (1790–1883), and father to Ernest Cloquet (1818–1856), who was a personal physician to Mohammad Shah Qajar of Persia.
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | Hippolyte Taine | Hippolyte et Aricie | Jules Germain Cloquet | Hippolyte Bernheim | Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine | Hippolyte Lefèbvre | Hippolyte François Jaubert | Hippolyte Fizeau | Hippolyte Cloquet | Saint-Hippolyte, Haut-Rhin | Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort | Saint-Hippolyte | ''Phèdre et Hippolyte'' by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin | Louis-Hippolyte Boileau | Hippolyte Roussel | Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès | Hippolyte Louis Gory | Hippolyte Havel | Hippolyte Girardot | Hippolyte d'Este | Hippolyte de la Charlerie, detail from ''The Members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts | Hippolyte Bis | Hippolyte Annex | Hippolyte | François-Hippolyte Barthélémon | Étienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe | Cloquet's node | Cloquet, Minnesota | Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès, Comte de Malartic |