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Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There he worked as a footman and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery Street.

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"Sveen's elegiac biography is an intimate and rambling look at Sather ... it's a well-researched addition to the literature on early San Francisco, as well as the experience of Norwegian immigrants in the U.S." -- Laura Tarwater Scharp City Book Review

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A Hardback by Karin Sveen, Barbara J. Haveland, Kevin Starr

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 2/21/2014 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780520276482, 978-0520276482
    ISBN10: 0520276485
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    Banking History of the Americas Higher education, tertiary education

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There he worked as a footman and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery Street.

    Trade Review
    "Sveen's elegiac biography is an intimate and rambling look at Sather ... it's a well-researched addition to the literature on early San Francisco, as well as the experience of Norwegian immigrants in the U.S." -- Laura Tarwater Scharp City Book Review

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