California Sketches
Dublin Core
Title
California Sketches
Subject
California
Religion
Methodist Church
Missionaries
Christian Advocates
Religion
Methodist Church
Missionaries
Christian Advocates
Description
California sketches (1880) is the first of missionary Fitzgerald’s books outlining his stay in California, providing brief anecdotes of his life in California in the mid 1850s. A published diary entry.
The piece was printed in English, with his intended audience being other Europeans. 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.
The piece was printed in English, with his intended audience being other Europeans. 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.
Creator
Fitzgerald, O. P. (Oscar Penn), 1829-1911.
Publisher
Nashville, Tenn., Southern Methodist publishing house, 1880.
https://lccn.loc.gov/02019015
Electronic copy from HathiTrust http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009601840
https://lccn.loc.gov/02019015
Electronic copy from HathiTrust http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009601840
Date
1880
Contributor
Hannah Wiseman
Rights
No known restriction on publication, Library of Congress owns (02019015)
Hard Original Copy available at Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms, Library of Congress
Hard Original Copy available at Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms, Library of Congress
Language
English
Type
Textual - printed book
Identifier
19th century California
Files
Collection
Citation
Fitzgerald, O. P. (Oscar Penn), 1829-1911., “California Sketches,” The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present, accessed May 11, 2024, https://theamericanpacificrim.omeka.net/items/show/196.