Gospel Pioneering: Reminiscences of Early Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920

Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. The son of a Maine Congregational leader, William Chauncey Pond (b. 1830) sailed around the Horn to California as a "home missionary" in 1853. Gospel pioneering (1921) presents highlights of his career in the West: creation of San Francisco's Greenwich St. Church; ministry in the Sierra County mining town of Downieville; story of The Pacific, a Congregationalist-Presbyterian jo