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Cover of: California life illustrated by Taylor, William
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Cover of: California life illustrated. by Taylor, William

California life illustrated.
11th thousand.
By William Taylor, of the California conference ...

Published 1858 by Pub. for the author, by Carlton & Porter in New York .
Written in English.

About the Book

William Taylor (1821-1902) was a Methodist minister specializing in "street preaching" in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., when the Methodist church sent him to California as a missionary evangelist in 1849. He remained in the West for seven years, going on to become one of the church's most tireless worldwide evangelists. He later conducted crusades in Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa. In 1884 he was named Missionary Bishop for Africa and he focused his energies on missionary activities on that continent. Taylor spent his last years in California, the site of his first mission. California life illustrated (1858) expands on his reminiscences in Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco (1857). He describes his voyage to California and gives details of family life, social life, politics and church history in San José, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento. He comments at length on California agriculture and mineral resources and offers a chapter on mining camp life. After founding the Powell Street church, Taylor explains, he undertook a mission to sailors in San Francisco which left him so burdened by debt that he returned east to publish books and conduct revivals in the hope of putting his finances in order.

Edition Notes

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
No known restrictions on publication.

Classifications

Library of Congress
F864 .T26

The Physical Object

Pagination
348 p. incl. front., plates.
Number of pages
348

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL271140M
Internet Archive
californialifeil00tayl
LC Control Number
rc 01000750

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History Created April 1, 2008 · 8 revisions
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April 13, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Linked existing covers to the edition.
March 27, 2010 Edited by ImportBot Found a matching record from Library of Congress .
December 11, 2009 Edited by WorkBot link works
June 18, 2009 Edited by EdwardBot fix broken author (step 2)
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Initial record created, from Scriblio MARC record.