Unitarianism on the pacific coast : the first sixty years

by Arnold Crompton.
Boston : Beacon Press, ©1957.

An exciting and important chapter in the history of liberal religion which has never before been told – the story of Unitarianism on the West Coast. Arnold Compton has devoted ten years of tireless research to the task of refining the essential metal from the “mountains of unmined gold” that Earl More Wilbur pointed out to him – crammed boxes, metal trunks, wooden crates in the basement of the Administration Building of the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley. In these containers were pounds and pounds of letters, sermons, pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, church bulletins, church records – all kinds of raw material pertaining to the Unitarian movement on the Pacific Coast. The raw ore had never been assayed. In this book are the first pure nuggets.