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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sveen, Karin, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Norwegian
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sather, Peder, > 1810-1886.
Emigration and immigration.
Businessmen.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Hommes d'affaires > Californie > San Francisco.
Businessmen > California > San Francisco.
California > San Francisco.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Translation of the author's Mannen i Montgomery street : portrett av en norsk emigrant.
Physical Description:1 online resource (295 pages).
ISBN:9780520957121

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