Thomas Starr King and the Massachusetts Background for His California Activism
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On July 4, 1821, a young shoemaker named Thomas Farrington King gave a patriotic address to a group of his fellow workers in New York City, the combined “Tammany, Hibernian, Stone Cutters’, Tailors’, and Cordwainers Societies.” In ornate language he denounced ecclesiastical despotism and called out the glorious names of the Revolutionary heroes. This speech, as it happened, would change his life and make possible the career of his firstborn child, Thomas Starr King, who would go on to consort with men and women at the pinnacle of American cultural life first as a Universalist and then as a Unitarian clergyman.
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On July 4, 1821, a young shoemaker named Thomas Farrington King gave a patriotic address to a group of his fellow workers in New York City, the combined “Tammany, Hibernian, Stone Cutters’, Tailors’, and Cordwainers Societies.” In ornate language he denounced ecclesiastical despotism and called out the glorious names of the Revolutionary heroes. This speech, as it happened, would change his life and make possible the career of his firstborn child, Thomas Starr King, who would go on to consort with men and women at the pinnacle of American cultural life first as a Universalist and then as a Unitarian clergyman.
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