Solano County Biography

Rev. Nathaniel B. Klink

Rev. Nathaniel B. Klink - pastor first Presbyterian Church, Vallejo, was born in the townhsip of New Scotland, county of Albany, State of New York, on February 5, 1823. His early education was obtained in the public schools. He spent three years in the Albany Academy, when Dr. T. Bomeyn Beck was principal, and entered Union College in 1845, and graduated July 26,1847. In the Fall of 1848 he entered the Theological Seminary of Princeton, and graduated from that institution in May, 1851. From this latter seminary he went directly to Oneida Valley, where he passed one year in missionary labor. Thence he moved to West Galway, Saratoga County, where he remained until June, 1853, when he was called to the Presbyterian Church of Balston Spa, where he was ordained and installed as pastor. Resigned this charge in 1855, and was then called to the Presbyterian Church in Fairmount, Huntendon County, New Jersey, remaining there until December, 1859, when he resigned this charge and came to California. He arrived in San Francisco with his family on December 26,1859, but, remaining there only a few days, at once proceeded to Vallejo, where he has since resided, with the exception of one year and three months, when he was acting-pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Sacramento. Mr. Klink married, in 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy Seymour, a deacon in the North Dutch Church, Albany, New York, by whom he has a family.

History of Solano County, California
Page 368
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February 2008

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