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

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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 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]
Temas:
Sather, Peder, > 1810-1886.
Sather, Peder, > 1810-1886
Businessmen > California > San Francisco.
Hommes d'affaires > Californie > San Francisco.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Businessmen
Emigration and immigration
San Francisco (Calif.) > Emigration and immigration.
California > San Francisco
american civil war.
banking house.
berkeley.
biographical.
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california patron.
california.
career.
charity.
emancipated slaves.
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family.
famous people.
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history.
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liberal benefactor.
life changes.
lifetime.
money and banking.
money and power.
money.
new york.
norway.
peder sather.
philanthropy.
power and wealth.
public education.
successful entrepreneur.
university of california at berkeley.
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Monuments and Mysteries; 2 Sole Passenger; 3 Baptism and Marriage; 4 1837; 5 New Yorker and Norwegian; 6 A Specimen of the Gold; 7 A Particular Friend; 8 Drexel, Sather & Church; 9 Congratulating Himself on Freedom; 10 Cigars, Wine, and Other Evils; 11 The Turning Point; 12 Law in a Lawless City; 13 Gold, Pigs, and a Summer Residence; 14 The Foundation of Man's Future Circumstances; 15 Morals, Money, and War; 16 The Haunted House; 17 Never Sather & Son; 18 Among Friends on Wall Street; 19 Under the Fever Trees.
  • 20 Peder and Jane21 In Memoriam; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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