Autobiography of Rev. Adam Lowry Rankin: papers, 1891, n.d.

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Autobiography of Rev. Adam Lowry Rankin: papers, 1891, n.d.

Box 1. Manuscript copy of autobiography in 10 notebooks, 846 numbered pages. Box 2. Two typescript copies of autobiography: folder 1, final draft, 181 pages, appears complete; folder 2, corrected typescript, 164 pages, incomplete; folder 3, partial geneology and photocopy of a photograph of Adam Lowry Rankin.

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Rankin, Adam Lowry, 1816-1895

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Rev. Adam Lowry Rankin accepted a call to become pastor of the Congregational Church in Tulare, Calif., in January, 1873, and under the partial sponsorship of the American Home Missionary Society, moved out to the eastern foothills of California's Great Valley to join the small and seemingly indifferent flock. In 1873, Tulare lacked the social coherence expected in a more settled community. A small, primarily agricultural community situated on the Union Pacific line between Bakersfi...