Francis Edward Prevaux to parents, June 29, 1850.

1850 June 29

Francis Edward Prevaux letters

BANC MSS C-B 463, Box 1, Folder 4

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Francis Edward Prevaux (1822-1860) was a Baptist missionary from Amesbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University in 1846 and Newton Theological Institute in 1849. He was ordained a Baptist evangelist in 1850 and was sent to California by the American Baptist Home Mission Society where he began preaching at Bethel Church, San Francisco, California and became the principal of the San Francisco Academy. He remained in California until 1859 and died in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1860. San Francisco Academy was a private prepatory high school located at Jackson and Powell Streets. It had separate classes for males and females and the course of study included Primary and Higher English, Latin, Spanish, French, Drawing, and Music.

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