Name/Title
Oakland Tribune Newspaper Clipping about Reverend Willian Taylor, 1958Entry/Object ID
1998.194.1Description
ACC. NO. 98.194.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: METHODIST CHURCH, EUCALYPTUS TREE
DATE OR PERIOD: 1958
OBJECT: CLIPPING, NEWSPAPER
DESCRIPTION:
NEWSPAPER CLIPPING, WITH THREE SEPARATE BOLD-PRINTED CAPTIONS. THE MAIN CAPTION STATES, "STREET PREACHER."
SIZE: L 19-1/2" X W 5-3/4"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
NEWSPAPER CLIPPING CUT FROM THE OCTOBER 1958 HISTORY SECTION OF THE "OAKLAND TRIBUNE." CLIPPING IS WRITTEN ABOUT THE CAREER OF REVEREND WILLIAM TAYLOR, WHO PREACHED ON THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO DURING THE GOLD RUSH PERIOD. ALSO MENTIONED ARE EUCALYPTUS TREES THAT REVEREND TAYLOR ADVOCATED FOR CULTIVATION IN CALIFORNIA. TAYLOR AND ISABELLE, WIFE, WERE PROMINENT LANDOWNERS IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA AND THE PARENTS OF OUR FIRST MAYOR, E K TAYLOR. CLIPPING WAS GIVEN TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRIOR TO 1971 AND NOT OFFICIALLY CATALOGED AT THAT TIME.
DONOR:
UNKNOWN
CATALOGED: APRIL 11, 1998