Abstract
Was Thomas Starr King (1824-1864) a bellwether or catalyst of change? remember Thomas Starr King (1824-1864), California's most famous Unitarian minister, for his oratorical role during the Civil War in building pro-Union sentiment in the Golden State. Letters to King, and after his death, obituaries and volume upon volume of biography and history praised him as the one who in the Civil War bound California to the Unionto quote from a plaque that dedicated his sarcophagus on April 24, 1960. Perhaps many believed what King wrote in jest, that in California, we raise bigger trees and squashes than literati and brains.1
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