Author: Soren C. Roinestad
Publisher:
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Category : Norwegians
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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A Hundred Years with Norwegians in the East Bay
Author: Soren C. Roinestad
Publisher:
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Category : Norwegians
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Publisher:
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Category : Norwegians
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Immigrant and the University
Author: Karin Sveen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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 most accomplished writers, pieces together a story yet untold—a beautifully crafted biography based on her dedicated search for scraps of information. The result gives readers a look at the life of a successful entrepreneur and a leading California patron who engaged in public education on all levels; supported Abraham Lincoln; and worked to give emancipated slaves housing, schooling, and employment after the Civil War. His legacy and vivid persona and the frontier city of his time are brought to life with interesting anecdotes of many famous people— General William T. Sherman, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, and above all, his close friend Anthony J. Drexel, legendary Philadelphia financier and one of the founders of Wall Street.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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 most accomplished writers, pieces together a story yet untold—a beautifully crafted biography based on her dedicated search for scraps of information. The result gives readers a look at the life of a successful entrepreneur and a leading California patron who engaged in public education on all levels; supported Abraham Lincoln; and worked to give emancipated slaves housing, schooling, and employment after the Civil War. His legacy and vivid persona and the frontier city of his time are brought to life with interesting anecdotes of many famous people— General William T. Sherman, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, and above all, his close friend Anthony J. Drexel, legendary Philadelphia financier and one of the founders of Wall Street.
Norwegian-American Studies
Author: Norwegian-American Historical Association
Publisher:
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Hundred Years in the Highlands
Author: Osgood Hanbury MacKenzie
Publisher: London : E. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Gairloch (Highland region)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: London : E. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Gairloch (Highland region)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Immigration History Newsletter
Author:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
Guide to Manuscripts Collections of the Norwegian-American Historical Association
Author: Norwegian-American Historical Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft Library
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Cultural Differences
Author:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Subjects
Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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