The origin of this collection is with Charles Wendte, Unitarian minister in Oakland, who had known Thomas Starr King when a young man in the 1860's (See introduction in Wendte's scrapbook, Folio 1). Wendte worked on the committee to build the monument to TSK in Golden Gate Park, SF, 1892; authored a book, Thomas Starr King, Patriot and Preacher, 1921; and worked on designating TSK as one of the representatives in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, 1927. The material he gathered for these various projects was given to the then Pacific Unitarian Seminary (Starr King School for the Ministry).

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