Frederick Wemmer research on founding of Grace Church, 1955-1956.

Winn, William W., 1938-

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Burnham, Richard F.

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Gill, Muriel H.

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Wemmer, Frederick.

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The Pioneer Congregational Church in Sacramento on September 16, 1849. According to Frederick Wemmer's conclusions, the Grace Epsicopal Church in the same city was founded on September 23, 1849, one week later, by visiting Reverend Flavel S. Mines, and Reverend Richard F. Burnham served as first rector of the parish. Since some sources reported the founding date of Grace Church as August 1849, thereby placing it earlier than Pioneer Congregational, Wemmer needed to conduct exhaustive research to...

Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984

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Historian and biographer of the Protestant missionaries to Oregon. From the description of Papers, 1932-1958. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852284 Historian, Presbyterian minister. Ph. D. University of Edinburgh (1932). Professor Church History at San Francisco Theological Seminary (1938-1964). Published many works on church history, including: "Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Opening of Old Oregon"; "Diary of Elkanah Walker" (1976); and "Chief Law...

Ver Mehr, J. L. (Jean Leonhard), 1809?-1886

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Parsons, Edward Lambe, 1868-

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Edward L. Parsons, 1868-1960, served as pastor at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley, California, 1904-1919. He was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Francisco, 1919-1924, and Bishop of California, 1924-1941. Parsons was a strong activist for social welfare concerns, and in the promotion of Christian union. Edward Lambe Parsons was born in New York on May 18, 1868. Intending to become a lawyer, he attended Yale University in 1885, where he and his roommate, Gifford Pinchot, served as dea...

Ver Mehr, Irene L.

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Hickmott, Pauline B.

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Taylor, Kathryn M.

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Sonne, Niels H. (Niels Henry), 1907-

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Burr, Nelson R. (Nelson Rollin), 1904-1994

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Nelson Rollin Burr (b. 1904), was a librarian and historian, relating to labor issues. From the guide to the Nelson Rollin Burr Papers, undated, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

Ver Mehr, Rudolph.

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Shipler, Guy Emery.

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Manross, William Wilson, 1905-

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Mines, Flavel S. (Flavel Scott), 1811-1852

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Klingberg, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1883-1968

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Klingberg was born on Feb. 25, 1883 on a farm at Turkey Creek, Dickinson County, KS; AB (1907) and MA, University of Kansas; Ph. D, Yale Univ., 1911; researcher, Bureau of the Census and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1911-12); on faculty at Univ. of Southern California (1912-18); lecturer, League to Enforce Peace (1918-19); appointed chairman of the History Dept. of the new Southern Branch of the University of California, serving for 18 years; was professor of history at UCLA u...