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The Immigrant and the University - Peder Sather and Gold Rush California (Hardcover)
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The Immigrant and the University - Peder Sather and Gold Rush California (Hardcover)
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Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New
York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk at a
lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the
gold rush, he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking
house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery Street. Sather
was a founder and a liberal benefactor of the University of
California at Berkeley where he is memorialized by the Sather Gate
and Sather Tower (the Campanile), three endowed professorships, and
more recently the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study. Karin
Sveen, one of Norway's most accomplished writers, pieces together a
story yet untold--a beautifully crafted biography based on her
dedicated search for scraps of information. The result gives
readers a look at the life of a successful entrepreneur and a
leading California patron who engaged in public education on all
levels; supported Abraham Lincoln; and worked to give emancipated
slaves housing, schooling, and employment after the Civil War. His
legacy and vivid persona and the frontier city of his time are
brought to life with interesting anecdotes of many famous people--
General William T. Sherman, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Robert Louis
Stevenson, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, and above all, his
close friend Anthony J. Drexel, legendary Philadelphia financier
and one of the founders of Wall Street.
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