California Sketches

A Southern Methodist minister, Oscar Penn Fitzgerald (1829-1911) of North Carolina was sent to California as a missionary by his denomination in 1855. He remained for more than twenty years, winning appointment as state superintendent of public education in 1867 despite his pro-Southern position during the Civil War. In the late 1870s, Fitzgerald returned to the East, editing the Nashville Christian Advocate, 1878-1890, and accepting appointment as a Southern Methodist bishop. California sketches (1880) is the first of his books dealing with his stay in California, providing brief anecdotes of his life in California in the mid-1850s: pastorate of churches in the gold-mining town of Sonora, 1855-1856, and in Santa Rosa and Santa Clara; editing the Pacific Methodist Advocate in San Francisco; and conflict between Northern and Southern Methodist churches in California. Paperback, (1880), repr. 2011, 208 pp.

Product details

• Authors: Oscar Penn Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9781596412392
• ISBN: 978-1-59641-239-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 254 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous