A pioneer pastorate and times :
embodying contemporary local transactions and events /
by the Rev. Albert Williams, founder and first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco.

Description

Main Author

Williams, Albert, 1809-1893.

Related Names

Bacon & Company (San Francisco, Calif.)

Language(s)

English

Published

San Francisco : Bacon & Company, printers, 508 Clay Street, 1882.

Edition

Second edition.

Subjects

Williams, Albert, > Williams, Albert, / 1809-1893.
Williams, Albert, > Williams, Albert, / 1809-1893.
First Presbyterian Church (San Francisco, Calif.)
Religion and ethics.
Law > Law / Political aspects.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Ethnic groups.
Religion et morale.
Droit > Droit / Aspect politique > Droit / Aspect politique / Californie.
Groupes ethniques > Groupes ethniques / Californie.
Religion and ethics.
Law > Law / Political aspects > Law / Political aspects / California.
Ethnic groups > Ethnic groups / California.
Frontier and pioneer life > Frontier and pioneer life / California.
California.

Summary

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.

Note

"Critical estimates" on added leaf at end.
"Preface to the second edition", dated June 1st, 1882, on page [xi].

Physical Description

xvi, 255, [3] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm

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