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	Thomas Starr King
		Thomas Starr King (December 17, 1824-March 4, 1864), a Universalist and a Unitarian minister, was a lecturer and orator whose role in preserving California within the Union during the Civil War is honored by statues in the United States Capitol and in Golden Gate Park in California.
		King was soon drawn into the politics of his new state and became an advocate for the preservation of the union.
		Collections of Starr King papers and letters are at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; the California Historical Society in San Francisco, California; and at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston (in the Henry Whitney Bellows papers and the Thomas Starr King letters).
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/thomasstarrking.html (2010 words)

	THOMAS STARR KING
		At the King memorial service held in Boston, April 3, 1864, it was summed up this: "As a philanthropist, Starr King raised for the most beneficent of all charities, the most munificent of all subscriptions." And this for the cause he loved and fought for, the United States Sanitary Commission funds.
		Fitzhugh Ludlow said: "Starr King was the Sanitary Commission of California." He made it his mission to raise money rapidly for our suffering soldiers, traveling night and day, the principal factor in the raising of $1,235,000 in the face of the worst agricultural condition California has ever known.
		As late as 1913 the Legislature appropriated $10,000 for a bust of Starr King to be placed in the national capital at Washington.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~npmelton/sfbking2.htm (1772 words)

	SACRAMENTO / State lawmakers vote to replace Starr King's statue with Reagan's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Starr King, who came to California in 1860 and died in San Francisco four years later, is credited with stopping California from becoming a separate republic during the Civil War.
		Starr King drew enormous crowds and was a major force in moving public opinion.
		But Hollingsworth said Starr King has an "abbreviated place in history." He said he proposed the statue swap because Starr King was not a native Californian and could not compete historically with "the great communicator," Ronald Reagan, or the well-known Junipero Serra.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/01/BAGKPKTHVD1.DTL (521 words)

	Rev. Thomas F. King
		Thomas Farrington King, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to become its pastor, the situation having been made vacant by the resignation of Rev. Linus S. Everett in December, 1834.
		His funeral, which took place from the church in September, was very largely attended; all the business places in the town were closed in testimony of the respect and regard felt for him in the community, and a long procession followed his remains to his grave in the old burial-ground.
		King took place at a time when there was an unusual gathering of Universalist clergymen in Boston, who were on their way to a general convention of the denomination at Portland, Maine.
	bos-gw.rays-place.com /rev-t-f-king.htm (1398 words)

	SummitPost - Mount Starr King -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Starr King is an impressive granite dome a few miles south of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.
		Starr King is really a series of 3 domes running north-south, the north dome being the high point.
		Starr King lacks the dramatic relief of Half Dome's Northwest Face, as well as the nearly 5,000 vertical feet of relief.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/150526/summitpost.html (996 words)

	Thomas Starr King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Starr King, (December 17, 1824—March 4, 1864) was a Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War.
		Mountain peaks in the White Mountains (Mount Starr King, elevation 1,191 m (3,907 feet) and in Yosemite National Park are named in his honor.
		In 1941 the Starr King School for the Ministry (Unitarian Universalist), in Berkeley, California, was also renamed in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Starr_King (606 words)

	My Point: David M. Shribman / Starr turn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But there are plenty of reminders of Reagan in the national capital region, including a horrific, gaudy federal building (which stands in contravention to everything he believed about the optimal size of government) and an airport (which is a risible reminder of his decision to fire the air traffic controllers in 1981).
		Starr King is worthy of being remembered, even if you have never heard of him.
		All this occurred before the Unitarian and Universalists themselves had their own union, but Starr King was ordained by both churches, a pathfinder in this aspect as well.
	www.postgazette.com /pg/06260/722004-108.stm (653 words)

	Thomas Starr King
		King covered his pulpit with an American flag and ended all his sermons with "God bless the president of the United States and all who serve with him the cause of a common country." At one mass rally in San Francisco, 40,000 turned out to hear him speak.
		In January 1864, King and his congregation celebrated the completion of the new building on the corner of Franklin and Starr King streets in San Francisco, where the First Unitarian Universalist Society church still stands today.
		King’s body was buried in the front lawn of his newly completed church, where it remains today.
	www.sksm.edu /about/thomas_starr_king.php (1619 words)

	The Boxwood Press: Thomas Starr King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		DESPITE a revival of interest in the Civil War, the labors of Thomas Starr King are largely forgotten.
		King traveled widely, exerting a civilizing effect throughout mining camps in Gold Rush territory.
		Starr King's story, retold with the aid of previously unpublished writings, is one of the most compelling to come out of the time when California was truly part of the Wild West.
	www.redshift.com /~ralphb/starr.htm (148 words)

	Fifty Years is Only Half the Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Then, when I learned that it was on April 28, 1860, that the Reverend Thomas Starr King first arrived on the West Coast, in California, that was too much for me. As April 28th is the very day of my installation; this felt truly auspicious.
		There's a Starr King village, a Starr King mountain, a ravine, a view over the Pemigewasset River, and in the town where I lived there was even an Elm tree named for him.
		Thomas Eliot of St. Louis visited Starr King in San Francisco and became intrigued with the idea of missionary work on the frontier.
	www.olyuu.org /Sermons/ser20020428.htm (2796 words)

	starrkingbio
		This statue of Thomas Starr King was given by the State of California to the National Statuary Hall Collection in The U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Bronze by Haig Patigian.
		Thomas Starr King, a minister and great public speaker, was known as "the orator who saved the nation." He was born December 17, 1824, in New York City.
		The sole support of his family at age 15, he was forced to leave school, but he took jobs where he could spend part of the time reading.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch838/personal/starrkingbio.html (304 words)

	Thomas King ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		King County Office of Civil Rights One artwork will be selected that can be featured on items produced for the celebration including the calendar, public display boards, award certificates, the OC...
		Terence King is currently a Professor in Fine Art and Art History at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, where he has been since the mid-1980s, having previously taught at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and South Africa, and Techniko...
		Artist’s Opportunity: King County and project architects The Miller/Hull Partnership are interested in adding an artist to the Environmental Laboratory project who can tell the story of the region’s water quality and contribute to the educational...
	wwar.com /masters/k/king-thomas.html (2398 words)

	UUSM - Services & Sermons
		But even in such trifles was the afternoon spent; and when the children were again gathered, and Sandy, with a delicacy the schoolmistress well understood, took leave of them quietly at the outskirts of the settlement, it had seemed the shortest day of her weary life.
		Certainly Thomas Starr King was under the Transcendentalist influence when he explored Yosemite and the Pacific coast and preached about them to his congregation.
		Thomas Starr King's prophetic insistence that liberal religion could be open enough to embrace people of any background; and that our tradition would thrive so long as we kept moving forward and not back is a message that we can still proclaim today.
	www.uusm.org /services/031801.php (2123 words)

	UUA Virtual Tour: Thomas Starr King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thomas Starr King was both a Universalist and Unitarian minister.
		This impassioned abolitionist was an influential lecturer whose role in preserving California for the Union during the Civil War is honored by statues in the United States Capitol and in Golden Gate Park in California.
		He carried this desk when he traveled to California in 1850s and it was brought back to Boston after Starr King died in California at age 39.
	www.uua.org /aboutuua/tour/portraits_starrking.html (215 words)

	King, Thomas Starr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A protest from the United States government prevented the execution of this sentence, and in 1854 it was revoked.
		His education was interrupted by the death of his father, a Universalist clergyman then residing at Charlestown, Mass., and he was compelled to go to work in a dry-goods store.
		At the outbreak of the Civil War, when it seemed probable that California would secede, King threw himself into the breach and by his eloquence saved the State to the Union.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc06/htm/iii.lxvi.vi.htm (400 words)

	civilrights.org -- Dethroning California's King
		Thomas Starr King, that is. Once one of California's most beloved heroes; honored in bronze as one of the state's two representatives in the 100-statue collection at the U.S. Capitol.
		That was probably the question members of the Legislature were asking themselves in the closing hours of their session last week, when they sent the governor a bill to unceremoniously oust King and replace him with Ronald Reagan.
		King, a Unitarian minister, may have been an intellectual star in the mid-19th century, but today he's not exactly a household name.
	www.civilrights.org /library/detail.cfm?id=46808 (200 words)

	Thomas Starr King
		Thomas Starr King, "the orator who saved the nation," was born December 17, 1824, in New York City.
		The sole support of his family at age 15, he was forced to leave school.
		Inspired by men like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Ward Beecher, King embarked on a program of self-study for the ministry.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/king_t.cfm (251 words)

	GGPNC Education Committee
		At both events bags and bags of trash were retrieved from the river bed and the children had a great time playing with the bamboo, looking for live creatures, trying to walk on the riverbed terrain, and discovering a whole new environment right in their own backyards.
		Mary gave a history of the art on the King campus, explaining that since its founding in 1926, much of its public art was destroyed or compromised, and described the successful restoration of "The Vanishing Race" sculpture, which happened with the help of a $20,000 grant.
		King principal Byron Maltez reported that cameras will be installed around the King campus to deter vandalism, which has been a real problem.
	www.ggpnc.org /gg_education_comte.html (5295 words)

	Saving Starr King - September 15, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Since 1931 a statue of Thomas Starr King, a Unitarian and Universalist minister who was an ardent advocate of the Union during the Civil War, has stood in the U.S. Capitol, amid a collection that includes such other figures as Henry Clay, Samuel Adams, John Calhoun, Ethan Allen, Robert Lee, Marcus Whitman, and Robert LaFollette.
		Reagan in the national capital region, including a horrific, gaudy federal building (which stands in contravention to everything he believed about the optimal size of government) and an airport (which is a risible reminder of his decision to fire the air traffic controllers in 1981).
		Reagan will not be forgotten by history, try as some Democrats may. Starr King is in danger of falling off the edge of history.
	www.nysun.com /article/39743 (436 words)

	Librarian in Tie-Dye
		The plaque on the sarcophagus of Thomas Starr King reads, “Apostle of liberty, humanitarian, Unitarian, minister, who in the Civil War bound California to the Union and led her to excel all other states in support of the United States Sanitary Commission, predecessor to the American Red Cross.
		California State Senator Debra Bowen, who is also a member of the UU Church of Santa Monica and currently running for Secretary of State, is working to revisit this vote (which was not unanimous as reported in the press–she voted in opposition).
		[Starr King] was present at the creation of the new California -- both Leland Stanford, later elected governor, and Bret Harte, a pillar of the pantheon of American letters, were among his parishioners -- and of the new environmentalism that gripped California, then and now.
	tiedyedlibrarian.blogspot.com (1943 words)

	The White HillsTheir Legends, Landscape and Poetry - Winnipesaukee Forum
		Is Thomas Starr King, the Rev. Starr King of White Mountains lore?
		Yes, this is the Thomas Starr King you have heard about.
		Perhaps there is at first a faint breeze, just enough to fret the water, and roughen or mezzotint the reflections of the shores.
	www.winnipesaukee.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1801 (1516 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Starr King Unitarian Universalist Fellowship(SKUUF) is a liberal religious congregation.
		We are a Welcoming Congregation, recognizing no distinction of class, nationality, race, gender or sexual orientation.
		To educate, encourage, empower ourselves and our children to become committed to the principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
	www.starrkingfellowship.org (99 words)

	Thomas King Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		Aubrey Beardsley, The Achieving of the Sangreal, opposite principal title page in the book Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights äby Sir Thomas Malory.
		Aubrey Beardsley, Heading vignette and first initial of the introduction on page ix in the book Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights äby Sir Thomas Malory.
		Ron King and his Circle Press have been making beautiful and creatively significant books for the pa...
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/k/king-thomas.html (1253 words)

	San Francisco Genealogy - Lone Mountain Cemetery, Memorial's Without the Walls
		The body of the Reverend Thomas Starr King, California's pioneer preacher who died March 4, 1864, when scarcely forty years of age, was taken first to Lone Mountain.
		In 1913 the legislature of the State of California appropriated ten thousand dollars for a bronze bust of Thomas Starr King to be placed in the Capitol at Washington.
		Haig Patigian, a sculpture of ability and rare genius, was chosen by the Commission to execute the statue of Thomas Starr King for the National Hall of Statuary.
	www.sfgenealogy.com /sf/gnl/lonemem.htm (2783 words)

	KING ES
		Thomas Starr King is a school on the rise!
		Located in the southeastern part of the city, Starr King is a Reading First school using the newly adopted Houghton Mifflin/Lectura program.
		Struggling readers are given fluency practice in the Read Naturally Lab so that children can devote more time to build meaning from their reading.
	portal.sfusd.edu /template/?page=es.king (166 words)

	John and Margot's Good-by Service
		Thomas Starr King, minister of this Society in the 1860's, is one of two Californians who currently represent the state in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.
		Representative Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach) is leading an effort to replace Starr King with a statue of former President Ronald Reagan, according to the Los Angeles Times.
		The original story which mentions the effort to replace Thomas Starr King's likeness with Ronald Reagan's is available free on the Times's web site.
	www.ozdachs.com /enews/nl-040617.htm (417 words)

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