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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: Publication Date: 2/21/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520276482, 978-0520276482
      ISBN10: 0520276485

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      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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