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The immigrant and the university : Peder Sather and gold rush California /

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 Mon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sveen, Karin, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Norwegian
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Translation of the author's Mannen i Montgomery street : portrett av en norsk emigrant.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520957121
0520957121
1306168244
9781306168243