California: A Study of American Character : From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (California Legacy Book)
Josiah Royce (1855-1916), the son of forty-niners Josiah and Sarah Royce, was born and reared in Grass Valley. He became an instructor of English at UC Berkeley (1878-82) and later went on to Harvard, where he remained for the rest of his life as a professor of philosophy.