Background
Willey, Samuel Hopkins was born on March 11, 1821 in Compton, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Darius and Mary (Pulsifer) Willey.
Willey, Samuel Hopkins was born on March 11, 1821 in Compton, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Darius and Mary (Pulsifer) Willey.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth, 1845, Master of Arts, 1848. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1848. (Doctor of Divinity, Dartmouth, 1875.
Doctor of Laws, University of California).
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, November 30, 1848. Home missionary, Monterey, California, 1848-1850. Pastor Howard Church, San Francisco, 1850-1862.
Vice president College of California, Oakland, 1862-1870.
Pastor Congressional churches, Santa Cruz, California, 1870-1880, Benicia, California, 1880-1889. President Van Ness Seminary, San Francisco, 1889-1896.
Honorary regent University of California Author: History of the College of California, 1887. Hitsory of the First Pastorate of Howard Presbyterian Church, 1900.
California-Transition Period, 1901.
Home: 2250 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California.
Married Martha North. Jeffers, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, September, 1849 (died, 1905).