Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland in Alameda County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
William Taylor
— United Methodist Historic Site —
Photographed By Joseph Alvarado, June 14, 2023
1. William Taylor Marker
Headstone:
Bishop of Africa
“The people who sat in darkness saw great light”
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Isabella A. Taylor
“Her children shall rise up and call her blessed”
Erected by United Methodist Commission on Archives and History.
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion. In addition, it is included in the United Methodist Church Historic Sites series list.
Location. 37° 50.047′ N, 122° 14.294′ W. Marker is in Oakland, California, in Alameda County. It is in Mountain View Cemetery. Marker can be reached from Piedmont Avenue north of Ramona Avenue when traveling north. The plaque is mounted to the black granite headstone in plot 33, lot 4. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland CA 94611, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Samuel Merritt, M.D. (within shouting distance of this marker); Rev. Laurentine Hamilton (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); In Memory of Col. John Coffee Hays (approx. 0.2 miles away); Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado
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1. Official Registration of Methodist Historical Site.
”Taylor began his ministry in the fall of 1849 among those whom William Roberts had formed into a class in 1847, which had become the first Methodist Church in California. …He finished building First Church, …then set about to anchor a moving constituency by building, with Isaac Owen, a house for the first book store on the coast. He and Owen with their own hands, dug ditches for the foundation of the Book Concern building and, for lack of drayage costs, carried from the beach 2000 books to become the book depository of the west.(Submitted on August 18, 2023, by Joseph Alvarado of Livermore, California.)
The Gold Rush days moved so rapidly and people with them that things developed before they settled down into organization. …Days of gambling and carousing; days of murder! …His preaching from saloon rooms, in the out-of-doors or in the church grew famous. His eloquence and his singing were electric.”
Photographed By Joseph Alvarado, June 14, 2023
2. William Taylor Marker and Headstone
2. Taylor, William (1821-1902). Boston University
"Seeking to raise funds, Taylor visited Australia and New Zealand (1863-1866) and then South Africa (March to October 1866) where his evangelistic campaigns among the black population were revolutionary. In South India from 1870 to 1875, he ignored mission comity agreements, establishing self-supporting, self-propagating, and self-governing Methodist Episcopal churches, and arguing that these be recognized as the ecclesiastical equals of churches in North America."(Submitted on August 18, 2023, by Joseph Alvarado of Livermore, California.)
Photographed By Joseph Alvarado, June 14, 2023
3. William Taylor Marker and Headstone
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4. William Taylor
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