Albert Williams, San Francisco, California Pastorate, 1849-54

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Long-time pastor of a church in Clifton, New Jersey, Albert Williams was sent by the Presbyterian Board of Missions to California in February 1849. This database is a collection of his memories living in San Francisco between 1849 and 1854. In it he provides his experiences founding the First Presbyterian Church, commentary on missionary work among the Chinese, and vignettes describing many of the other clergy in the Bay Area. He also describes San Jose, Sacramento, and Oregon. Additionally, he includes accounts of fires, earthquakes, and cholera epidemics in the area during his stay. For those seeking to understand the larger context in which their California ancestors may have lived, this database can illuminate important aspects of Bay Area culture in the nineteenth century.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 138. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Williams, Albert. A Pioneer Pastorate and Times. San Francisco: Wallace and Hassett, 1879.

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