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Author Sveen, Karin, 1948-

Title The immigrant and the university : Peder Sather and gold rush California / Karin Sveen ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

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Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Translation of the author's Mannen i Montgomery street : portrett av en norsk emigrant.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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Subject Sather, Peder, 1810-1886.
Sather, Peder, 1810-1886.
Sather, Peder, 1810-1886.
Businessmen -- California -- San Francisco.
Businessmen.
California -- San Francisco.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Emigration and immigration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Title Mannen i Montgomery street. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013027988
Other Form: Print version: Sveen, Karin, 1948- Mannen i Montgomery street. English. Immigrant and the university 9780520276482 (DLC) 2013016623 (OCoLC)840582115
ISBN 9780520957121 (electronic book)
0520957121 (electronic book)
1306168244 (electronic book)
9781306168243 (electronic book)
9780520276482
0520276485