LC control no. | n 85363375 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864 |
Variant(s) | King, T. Starr (Thomas Starr), 1824-1864 |
Associated place | Charlestown, Boston, Mass. Boston, Mass. |
Located | San Francisco, Calif. |
Birth date | 18241217 |
Death date | 18640304 |
Place of birth | New York, N.Y. |
Place of death | San Francisco, Calif. |
Field of activity | Unitarianism |
Profession or occupation | Clergy |
Found in | His The death of Mr. Webster, 1852: t.p. (Thomas Starr King, pastor) Fitchburg Athenaeum. Athenaeum lectures! The lecture on Tuesday eve, 1853: t.p. (Rev. T. Starr King) MoSU-L/NLT files (hdg.: King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864) Wikipedia, Jun. 18, 2013: "Thomas Starr King" (Thomas Starr King; born Dec. 17, 1824, New York City to the Rev. Thomas Farrington King and Susan Starr King; died Mar. 4, 1864 in San Francisco of diphtheria complicated by exhaustion; American Unitarian and Unitarian minister; sole support of his family by age 15 and forced to leave school, he undertook a self-study program, and at 20 took over his father's former pulpit of the Charlestown, MA Universalist Church; 1849 appointed pastor of Hollis Street Church, Boston; 1860 accepted a call from the First Unitarian Church, San Francisco; influential in California politics during the Civil War, credited by Lincoln with preventing California from becoming a separate republic, and organized the Pacific branch of the United States Sanitary Commission) |
Associated language | eng |