Excerpt from A Brief Account of the Lick Observatory of the University of California James lick, who gave to the world the Lick Observatory, was born in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1796, and died in San Francisco, October I, 1876. His body lies in the base of the pier of the great Equatorial. He learned and practiced the trade of organ and piano-making in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and in Baltimore. In 1820 he was in business in Philadelphia. From there he went to Buenos Ayres, making and selling pianos. From the east coast of South America he came to the west, and finally, in 1847, he arrived in San Francisco. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.