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King, Thomas Starr

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King, Thomas Starr (1824-1864)

US minister and lecturer. He went to San Francisco in 1860 where his orations helped to keep California in the Union during the US Civil War. California named two mountains after him and his statue was placed in the US Capitol.

He was born in New York City. He worked as a teacher, principal, and bookkeeper to support his mother and siblings. Largely self-taught, he became a Unitarian minister in Boston in 1846.
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