Gold rush banker eulogized by T.S. King 1862
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Author: King, Thomas Starr
Title: "He Was a Good Man" - A Discourse in Memory of Frederick William Macondray, Preached in the First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, Sunday morning, August 31, 1862
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Printed by Towne and Bacon
Date Published: 1862
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33 pp. 22.4x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), original printed wrappers, with cloth tape along spine affixing the booklet to a rear board. First Edition.
Scarce printing of a memorial sermon by the Unitarian Universalist minister Thomas Starr King, notable for his oratorical efforts during the Civil War to preserve the Union. Frederick Macondray, Sr. (1803-1862), born in Massachusetts, a sailor in his boyhood, became a ship's captain by the age of 21. During the Gold Rush, he came to San Francisco and established the commission house Macondray & Co. in 1849 with partners James Otis and R.S. Watson. The company also served as one of the earliest banking facilities in San Francisco. With letter from Martha L. Macondray, a daughter of F.W. Macondray (signed by her but the body of the letter in another's hand), to Hall McAllister, affixed to inside rear wrapper, presenting the pamphlet. There are a few pencil notes to the text, in either Martha's hand or Hall's, who seems to have been related. OCLC locates six copies. Greenwood 1659 counts four.
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