Willey, Samuel H. (Samuel Hopkins), 1821-1914

Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821-1914), a leading California educator, arrived in California in 1849. In 1855 he co-founded, with Henry Durant, the College of California, which was a forerunner of the University of California system and was later incorporated into UC Berkeley. Willey was also the author of several books, including Thirty years in California : a contribution to the history of the state from 1849 to 1879 (1879), History of the College of California (1887), American Congregationalism in the nineteenth century and entering the twentieth (c.1902), and Dartmouth 1840-1845: a reminiscence (1955).

From the description of Letter to Miss Lord, 1852, August 18. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 647768913