LEADER 05046nam 2200985 450 001 9910819925803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-95712-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520957121 035 $a(CKB)2550000001166703 035 $a(EBL)1574612 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059852 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12443422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059852 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086707 035 $a(PQKB)11243231 035 $a(DE-B1597)520063 035 $a(OCoLC)867631245 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520957121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1574612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10814159 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL548075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1574612 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001166703 100 $a20130516h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe immigrant and the university $ePeder Sather and gold rush California /$fKarin Sveen ; foreword by Kevin Starr ; translated by Barbara J. Haveland 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (307 p.) 300 $aTranslation of the author's Mannen i Montgomery street : portrett av en norsk emigrant. 311 $a0-520-27648-5 311 $a1-306-16824-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tForeword -- $t1. Monuments and Mysteries -- $t2. Sole Passenger -- $t3. Baptism and Marriage -- $t4. 1837 -- $t5. New Yorker and Norwegian -- $t6. A Specimen of the Gold -- $t7. A Particular Friend -- $t8. Drexel, Sather & Church -- $t9. Congratulating Himself on Freedom -- $t10. Cigars, Wine, and Other Evils -- $t11. The Turning Point -- $t12. Law in a Lawless City -- $t13. Gold, Pigs, and a Summer Residence -- $t14. The Foundation of Man's Future Circumstances -- $t15. Morals, Money, and War -- $t16. The Haunted House -- $t17. Never Sather & Son -- $t18. Among Friends on Wall Street -- $t19. Under the Fever Trees -- $t20. Peder and Jane -- $t21. In Memoriam -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aPeder 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.   606 $aBusinessmen$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco 607 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xEmigration and immigration 610 $aamerican civil war. 610 $abanking house. 610 $aberkeley. 610 $abiographical. 610 $abiography. 610 $acalifornia patron. 610 $acalifornia. 610 $acareer. 610 $acharity. 610 $aemancipated slaves. 610 $aengaging. 610 $afamily. 610 $afamous people. 610 $ahistorical. 610 $ahistory. 610 $ahumanitarian. 610 $ainteresting anecdotes. 610 $aliberal benefactor. 610 $alife changes. 610 $alifetime. 610 $amoney and banking. 610 $amoney and power. 610 $amoney. 610 $anew york. 610 $anorway. 610 $apeder sather. 610 $aphilanthropy. 610 $apower and wealth. 610 $apublic education. 610 $asuccessful entrepreneur. 610 $auniversity of california at berkeley. 615 0$aBusinessmen 676 $a979.4/604092 676 $aB 700 $aSveen$b Karin$f1948-$01668600 701 $aHaveland$b Barbara J$01668601 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819925803321 996 $aThe immigrant and the university$94029303 997 $aUNINA