King, Thomas Starr

King, Thomas Starr( 1824–64),
born in New York, became a Boston Unitarian clergyman noted for his writings on natural beauties of the American landscape, including The White Hills (1860) and articles collected in A Vacation Among the Sierras (1962). During the last four years of his life, he was a Unitarian pastor in San Francisco and was influential in California's choice of the Union side in the Civil War.