Walsworth, Edward Brown, 1819-1892.

Edward Brown Walsworth served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in East Avon, NY, before sailing to California in 1852 as a representative of the American Home Missionary Society. He organized the first Presbyterian Church of Oakland, CA, in 1853 but soon left to become pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Marysville, also filling the post of Yuba County Superintendent of Schools. He established the Female College of the Pacific in Oakland, CA, in 1863. The college was sold to the Pacific Theological Seminary in 1871, and Walsworth was put in charge of the Oakland Seminary before he returned to NY in 1876.

From the description of Papers of Edward Brown Walsworth, 1840-1889. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499654