A pioneer pastorate and times
Subtitle: embodying contemporary local transactions and events
By: by the Rev. Albert williams, founder and first pastor of the First Presbyterian church, San Franciso.
Publisher: Wallace & Hassett, printers
Published: 1879
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: First Presbyterian Church (San Francisco, Calif.); Frontier and pioneer life -- California; Ethnic groups -- California; Law and politics -- California; Religion and ethics -- California
Description: Albert Williams (1809-1893) was pastor of a church in Clifton, New Jersey, when the Presbyterian Board of Missions sent him to California via Panama in February 1849. A pioneer pastorate (1879) recalls his five years in San Francisco, 1849-1854, in which he organized the First Presbyterian Church and witnessed fires, earthquakes, and cholera epidemics. He offers vignettes of other clergy in the San Francisco area, missionary work among the Chinese, and accounts of visits to San José, Sacramento, and Oregon.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication.
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