Better known as "Starr King", he's got a mountain named for him and there's a statue in Golden Gate Park and there used to be one in Washington DC except someone declared they had no idea who he was. Rather than fix that ignorance, they demoted him. Also, my own "nursery school" was named for him: Starr King Parent-Child Workshop. Well, I didn't know who he was either, so I decided to fix that ignorance, at least a little. He was a Universalist, then a Unitarian minister with a slight stature and a booming voice that was quite desired on the lecture circuit, it seems. He had much to say about morality and spirituality and tolerance and staying off the drink. He also traveled from time to time and would write about that, mostly as series of newspaper articles. He moved from the east coast to San Francisco shortly before the Civil War and as an abolitionist, had much to say about that too. He is credited with "preserving California for the Union"...
A collection of small and random things.