Immigrant and the University
"Sveen's elegiac biography is an intimate and rambling look at Sather ... it's a well-researched addition to the literature on early San Francisco, as well as the experience of Norwegian immigrants in the U.S." -- Laura Tarwater Scharp City Book Review
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of California Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780520276482
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"Sveen's elegiac biography is an intimate and rambling look at Sather ... it's a well-researched addition to the literature on early San Francisco, as well as the experience of Norwegian immigrants in the U.S." -- Laura Tarwater Scharp City Book Review