Source:
Joel Bean Papers, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, PA.
Joel
Bean (1825-1914) moved to San Jose, California, in 1882 and kept 36
“Engagement Calendars” from 1883 to 1913, 30 years. A few years have “extra” diaries and 1886 is
missing.
This
1894 diary is typical of
Joel’s diaries, a black leather bound volume about 5
X 3 inches cover, about an
inch thick, with three dates pre-printed on each page . The title of the volume is “Bancroft’ pacific coast diary
for 1888,
Containing Useful Memoranda and
Tables for Reference, Published Annually, San Francisco. The first 60 pages are the “useful . . . reference”
By
Tom M. King,
393
Rutland Ave,
San
Jose, CA. 95128
E-Mail:
thomk48@hotmail.com
Only dates with hand written entries are listed.
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Begin 1894===========================
Jan.
2, 1894 Tues. Prof. Anderson & boys, and Prof. Griggs
& wife dined at C.E.C.’s
(from Stanford University)
(where Charles E. Cox was math instructor)
Jan. 3, 1894 Wed. Missionary Sewing Circle here.
Etta Shelley, Hannah Bell, Mary
Parsons, Camellia Tabor, Emma Tabor of New Bedford, A? Hammond, W. B. Jones
(Phoebe Wise & her mother-in-law & others about 27 in all)
Jan.
6, 1894 Sat Mr. Toney put in wheat and Alfalfa seed on E.B’s lot &
patch for C.E.C.
Jan.
8 1894 Mon. Mr. Toney of Santa Clara put in wheat on
Cathie’s lot: & B.
Cox’s lot for C.S.C.
Jan.
12, 1894 Friday Put in some
beet seeds and carrot seeds in the garden.
Jan.
16, 1894 Tues. H.E.B. &
Geo. & Mary Hammond & Jas. B. (ean) went to Pacific Grove to attend the funeral of
John Cloud.
Jan.
17, 1894 Wed. Funeral of John Cloud at
Pacific Grove.
Sewing
Circle at C. E. C.’s (Charles
& Lydia Cox house next door)
Jan.
18, 1894 Thurs H.E.B. &
others returned from Pacific Grove.
Jan.
20 Sat The greater will
comprehend & own the less: the
less cannot comprehend. It may deny
the greater.
Jan.
28, 1894 Sun. Mary A. Clifs of
S. F. and Abraham Keralla from Syria were at meeting. Clement Albright here.
Jan.
29, 1894 Monday Attended
Ministers Mtg. at 10:30 A
Paper by D. A. Dryden on the “Present Christ”: --- and a Mtg. on Associated Charities at 2
p.m.
Feb.
1, 1894 Thursday A new W. C.
T. U. former at College Park.
Helen Currie came here from Oakland.
Feb. 2, 1894 Friday Helen Currie went to Bert Bean’s
to work. Rec- a call from Henry Fisher in the evening with S. Brun? We attended a Reception at
S. Griffins with their Son-in-law, Wm. Moon?? & wife, arrived from New York
last 7th day.
Feb. 3, 1894 Sat Association Mtg. at Mtg. house in
the P.M.
Feb.
4, 1894 Sunday Mary Conard and Elizabeth Worrall from Phila- were at
Mtg. & here to dinner.
Feb.
11, 1894 Sunday-Isaac Sharp was at mtg. having returned from Mexico yesterday.
Feb.
12, 1894 Mon. Enoch Carter
& wife and Newby Hodson & wife from Kansas came from S. F. Enock & Catharine Carter to our
house & the others to Geo.
Hammond’s
Feb.
13, 1894 Tuesday E.
& C. Carter took tea at Samuel
Brun’s. N. Hodson
& wife here in Evening with G. & M. Hammond. E. & C. Carter staid here.
Feb.
14, 1894 Wed--Isaac Sharp & the Kansas Friends at Meeting & at Sewing Circle in the P.M. at
Abner Allins.
Sharp & E. Shelley here to dinner & I. S.
Staid here
Feb.
16, 1894 Friday Samuel Emlers? & wife & daughter & niece called from the Vendome (expensive hotel in San
Jose)
Feb.
18, 1894 Sun. Isaac Sharp and
Samuel Emlers & wife &
daughter Sally & Niece
Phoebe Haines & Jos. Haines were at Meeting and were here to dinner
with Elizabeth H. Shelley
Feb. 20, 1894 Tuesday Received a call from Smuel Emlers.
Feb.
23, 1894 Fri.---------David Tatum came here
Feb.
24, 1894 Sat--------D. T. Went with Chas. to his Ranch & to town in the p.m.
And to G. N. Jones’ to tea
Feb.
25, 1894 Sun.-Isaac Sharp & David Tatum at Meeting. D. T. Gave a lecture on Temperance at 3
p. m.. In Presbyterian house. D. T. At STOCKTON AVE. MTG in
evening. Returned here.
Feb.
26, 1894 Mon.--------D. Tatum went to The Willows, dined at Wm.
Wards & returned here in evening.
Feb.
27, 1894 Tues. David Tatum
left for Milpitas this Evening.
I
went to S. F. to see Mary Elkington Nitobe off on the Oceanic for Japan. Called on H. L. Neall and went into The
Mid Winter Fair.
Feb.
28 1894 Wed I. Sharp at
meeting.
March
4, 1894 Sunday Isaac Sharp at Meeting. He with S. & E. Shelley & two
younger children dined at C.E. Cox’s.
Mar
7 1894 Wed Isaac Sharp at meeting.
Mar
8, 1894 Thurs. I went to Stanford
University. Attended Prof. Griggs, Howards &
Hudson’s classes and heard Dr. Gunsalos of Chicago (Armor Institute)
address the Students at ll:30 & Archbishop Keane of Washington at 2 p.m.
Mar 9, 1894 Friday Mother & H. & L(ydia) & I went to
Severt Shelley’s & dined
with Isaac Sharp.
Mar
13, 1894 Tues. I started with
Isaac Sharp for Southern Calif.
via S.F.
Mar
14, 1894 Wed I. S. & I
reached Los Angelos at 2 p.m. Were
met by Chas. E. Tebbetts. Attended midweek Meeting at L. A. About a dozen present. Josepine Marlatt
Minister. Went to Long Beach to
the Meeting in the Evening. Met by
Amos Walton. I lodged at Joe?
Carter’s. House full at mtg.
Mar
15, 1894 Thurs Went
from Long Beach to El Modena to Curtis Way’s. Called on Lydia Jenkens & dau. And Dr. Furness’s
widow. Meeting in the Evening.
Mar.
16, 1894 Friday Went by
Carriage from El-Modena to Alamitos accompanied by Harry O. May, to Alfred
Becketts. I called at Jacob
Stubbs: and Jas. Hivsto & John Beckett’s where I. S. took tea. Mtg. In the Evening.
Mar.
17, 1894 Sat Went thro a
“Sand Storm” to Anaheim 5 miles & took train for Pasadena. Dined at C. E. Tebbett’s with Dr.
Wm. Nicholson & wife, Edward Lester & wife, Thos. Ashby & wife, Jas.
Allan from Dundee, & Albert & Mary. Staid at Bro. Albert Tebbett’s
Mar
18, 1894 Sunday Attended
Mtg. at Pasadena at ll
---? Dined with Allen
& Mary Lu and were at an Appointed Mtg. at their Mtg. House at 2 1/2 p.m. House filled.
Called on Martha Dorland.
I. S. took tea at Edwd Lester’s & gave narration of travels at
end Mtg.
Mar
20, 1894 Mon. Left
Wildomar in the morning. Were met at San Bernandino by Chas. & Ismelda
Tebbetts and all dined together at
A. K. Smiley’s at Redlands with R. H. Smiley. Alfred’s family called.
Reached
Whittier in the Evening. I.S.
staid at Washington Hadley’s.
I lodged at Elwood Newlin’s.
Mar
21, 1894 Wed Mtg. at
Whittier at ll – Large -
Mary Moody from N. C.
present. C. A. & M. H. & C.E. Tebbetts were
with us & all dined together
at Prof. Chawner’s with M. Woody.
C.E.T. remained with E.S.
& I returned to Pasadena with Albert & Mary. I.S. gave narrative in eveng at M??
Mar
22 1894 Thurs. I called on S. & R. Abbott. After
dinner Albert & Mary took me to Los Angelos to Mtg. at 3 p.m. Isaac Sharp & I
took tea with Sarah Nordhoff (daughter of Jas. Whitall??) and to train
at 7:45 for the North.
Mar
23, 1894 Fri. I stopped off at
Tulare at 7:12 a.m. Was met by
Isaac & Joel & took Breakfast with Isaac & Cathie & children.
Mar
24, 1894 Saturday At
Tulare. Cathie & I &
the children drove into town & got the Box of Oranges I had brot from Albert Tibbetts.
Mar
25, 1894 Sunday Cathie
& I attended Congregational Church at Tulare. –Deeay, Minister. Benj.- & Ella & Alvin Cox
called in the p.m.
Mar
28, 1894 Wed Cathie
& the children & I drove over to Benja Cox’s
& took tea.
Mar
29, 1894 Thurs. I
returned home from Tulare.
April
1, 1894 Sun. Alice Nichols
Barnes & her husband from Montana were at Mtg. James & I and Geo. & Mary Hammond called on Isaac Sharp at
Severt Shelley’s.
April
2, 1894 Monday We
attended the Funeral of Simon Flanders at 2 p.m.
April
3, 1894 Tues. I. Sharp
& Severt Shelley dined here.
Cousin Hannah Stanley of Salem, Ohio, came here from Benicia.
April
4, 1894 Cousin
Hannah Stanley at Mtg. Lizzie Worrall came with Rachel
Stevenson of S. J.
We took tea with H. S. at G?
E. Gos’s???
April
5, 1894 Thursday We all
dined at Jas. Bean’s with
Cousin H. Stanley.
April 8, 1894 Sunday Isaac Sharp’s Tarewell
Meeting. Jos. Allen Baker a
Minister from London & his bro.-in-law Saml C. Mascot?? Were at Mtg. & here to dinner. J. B. Davy, & Father Benson,
Methodist Minister at Mtg. &
Fred Dawson, & “Miss” Way from Stanford, & & (house filled)
Cousin
H. S. dined at Mary
Hammond’s
April
10, 1894 Tues. H.E.B., Chas.
& Lydia & I attended the
wedding of Dr. Edwin Carson & Blanche Mabury at noon. Jas. took H. Stanley
& Mother to Jas. Canney’s in the p.m.
April
11, 1894 Wed Cousin Hannah
Stanley left for Benicia.--Isaac Sharp left San Jose for New York to take Steamer for England via Dublin Y.
M. accompanied to N. Y. by Divert Shelley.
April
15, 1894 Sunday--Abby Mendenhall from Minneapolis was at Meeting (Stayed at
Joel Beans)
April
16, 1894 Mon. H.E.B. returned
home from Los Gatos.
April
17, 1894 Tuesday I went
to Madrone Station to see the Ransom Ranch, for Prov. Life & Trust Co. Abby Mendenhall & her friend Mrs. Rhodes & Jas. &
R. (Bean) here to tea.
April
20, 1894 Friday
Cleaning House. Ford Suow??
Helping.
J.
B. Davy came here.
April
22, 1894 Sunday J. B. Davy
returned to Berkeley.
April
23, 1894 Monday Lily
& Anna went to San
Francisco (& stay at Hannah L.
Neall’s)
April
24, 1894 Tuesday House cleaning.
April
25, 1894 Wed. Sewing Circle here in the
p.m. Aug. Taber &
wife & Cornelia. G. & M.
Hammond, w. B. Jones, Mary Ann Dawson, E.H. Shelley, Hannah Bell,, Libben
Roberts, Alice Haines, Jas. B. Paul Brun
wz (sic) present.
April 27, 1894
Friday Chas. E. & Ismelda Tebbitts came here from S. F.
April 28, 1894 Sat Lily & Anna (mother and
daughter) returned from S. F.
April 29, 1894 Sunday Chas. E. Tibbetts & wife at Mtg. &
at Stockton Ave in the Evening. We
dined with them at C.E.C.’s
& they took tea at Jas.
B’s.
April 30, 1894
Monday C. & I. Tibbetts
dined at Jas. B’s & took tea with Emma &
Cathie Townsend.
May 1, 1894 Chas. & Imelda Tebbitts started
for home. H.E.B. dined at
Judge Reynold’s
May 5 1894, Sat Semi Annual Mtg. of Coll. Park Assn.
of Friends. Hannah L. Neall & Marie
DeNervand?? Came. J. B. Davy,
Martha Calley, Chas. Dawson, Robt Root & others from Stanford here & present??.
May 6, 1894 Sunday H. L. Neall, J. B. Davy, Martha Calley,
Capt. Isaac N. Hibbard & party here Dawson boys were at meeting.
I.
N. Hibberd & Sister Hannah, Alice Hyde & her Aunt Sherman & M. Calley here to dinner.
May 8, 1894 Tues. Fred W. Elliott went to work in the
hull??.
May 9, 1894 Wed Sewing Circle at Aug. Taber’s (in Palo Alto?)
May 10, 1894 Fred W. Elliott went to board at Mrs. -
Elliott’s , Santa Clara.
May 11, 1894
Friday Chas. E. Cox went to S. F.
May 14, 1894 Monday C. E. Cox returned from S. F.
May 20, 1894, Sunday In the beautiful May
Is
our Catharine’s Birthday,
When
the roses are brilliant with bloom
And
frequent the fields with perfume
Of the new-mown hay.
May 28, 1894 Cathie & little Joel & Mary
came from Tulare – Stopping on the way 2 or 3 hours at Madera, with Eddie
Bean. Ella Cox came also, at Geo.
Hammond’s.
May 30, 1894 Wed. Commencement Day at Stanford
University.
May 31, 1894 I attended Commencement at University
of the Pacific.
June 11, 1894
Monday Dr. Wm H. Taylor &
wife from Cincinnati were here to Dinner.
Chas. & Lily with us & Anna.
June 17, 1894
Sunday James Comstock of
Worcester, Mass. & Ole Sawyer & nephew Jos. Hanson were at
Meeting. Jas. B. & I
dined at G. N. J(ones?) with Jas. Comstock, A. Reeding at C.E.C. at 4 p.m. O. Sawvar?? & J. H. here to tea.
June 19, 1894 Tues. Mother, H. & I went to Pacific
Grove.
June 24, 1894 Sun H.E.B. & I attended the Episcopal
Church “St. Mary’s by the Sea” at P. Grove.
July 4 1894 Wednesday
The Great “Strike” has stopped the Rail Roads generally.
July 8 1894 Sunday H
& I were at the Episcopal Church at P. Grove.
July 13 1894 Friday Mother (Elizabeth Hill Bean) & I returned from P. Grove.
July 14, 1894
Sat Lillie & Cathie & their children with Sarah
(who? Child nurse??) went to P. Grove.
July 15, 1894, Sunday H. Melville Tennay’s wife & Chas.
Blaney’s wife were at mtg. & Theodore Tylor. Theodore Tylor, son of Chas. Tylor of Eng. Here to tea.
July 23, 1894 Mon. The Chautauqua Assembly, deferred from
2nd inst. On account of the R.R.
Strike commenced at P. Grove.
July 27, 1894 Friday Chas. E. Cox went to Pacific Grove and
left Theodore Tyler in care of his promises and “Ted”.
July 29 1894 Sun Ole
Sawyer from LeGrand, Iowa, was at meeting H.. & Geo. Hammond here to tea.
July 31, 1894 Tues. C. E. Cox returned from P. Grove.
Aug. 1, 1894 Wednesday Mary Hammond spent the afternoon here.
Aug. 2, 1894
Thurs. Isaac M. Cox arrived
from Tulare.
Aug. 3, 1894 Friday I. M. Cox went to P. Grove.
H.
E. Bean returned home from P. Grove.
Aug. 4, 1894 Saturday Chas. Roberts & wife & her son
called in the evening from Vendome (hotel) (returning from Alaska)
Aug. 5, 1894 Sun. Chas. & Lucy Roberts & her boy Wm. C. Longstreth of Philadelphia
were at Meeting & here to dinner. Thomas Burnett was at Mtg. (of S. J.)
Aug. 7, 1894 Tuesday E. Morris Cox came from the Grove to
C.E.C.’s Here to tea.
Aug. 11, 1984 Chas. E. Cox went to P. Grove.
Aug. 12, 1894 Sunday B. H. Jones & James Bean here to
dinner.
Aug. 13, 1894 Monday Chas. Cox returned from P. Grove.
Aug. 15, 1894 Wed I.M. Cox came from the Grove to C. E.
C’s.
Aug. 26, 1894 Sun. Amelia Armstrong was at Meeting and here to dinner.
Aug. 29, 1894 Wed. Hannah went from Mtg. to lunch at I.
Ellard Bean’s & to call on Mrs.
- Mau The Port??
Sept. 3, 1894 Monday L.S.B.Cox returned from P. Grove. Martha Albright came to commence(ment) at the Normal School(modern San Jose State
University)
Chas. & R. T. Bean returned home from P. Grove.
Sept. 5, 1894 Wed H.E.B. & Mary Hammond went to the
Funeral of Harry Peaslee at Palo Alto (son of Elbert Peaslee, 8 yrs old)
Sept. 13, 1894 Thurs Cathie went with Lily to Palo Alto,
took lunch at Prof. Murray’s,
& called at Dr. Jordan’s, S. Brun’s, Prof. Shoburn’s, etc.
and attended some lectures.
Sept. 14, 1894
Friday Cathie & Lily to
lunch at Stephen Griffin’s & made calls.
Sept. 16, 1894
Sunday We dined at
C.E.C’s (next door house)
with I. M. C’s family.
Sept. 19, 1894 Wed. Isaac & Cathie and the Babies left
us for Tulare.
Sept. 26 1894
Wed. We took dinner at Geo.
Hammond’s.
Sept. 30, 1894
Sunday Rainy in morning. I went to San Francisco to Mtg.
Attended Sarah B. Cooper’s Bible Class at Cong. House on Post
St. Called at Barclay
Smith’s (No. 431 17th St. (near Valencia St., S. F.) ). Met Prof. Green & wife (Laura Smith Green) and a large party at B.
Smiths & a son of Dr. Kittridge of Santa Barbara on the train.
Oct. 8, 1894 Monday James Bean read a paper at Ministers
Mtg. On the present State of the Temperance Movement. Much
appreciated & asked for publication.
Oct. 9, 1894
Tuesday Howard Heald from
Santa Cruz (son of Hiel? & Ann? Heald) called & dined here. H. & I
attended the funeral of Marcus Nelson, on the Alameda.
Oct. 13, 1894 Sat. Stephen A. Jones came to
C.E.C’s from Pacific Grove.
C.E.C.
& I sent a Bbl of apples to I.M.C (in) Tulare.
Oct. 15, 1894 Mon. S. A. Jones returned to P. Grove.
Oct. 17, 1894 Wed H.E.B. & Lily & Anna went to
Sewing Circle at S. Shelley’s.
I
attend in the afternoon a Mtg. Called by the Santa Clara Home Protection
Assn. in Turn Verun Hall. Speaking by the Pres. T. B. McChesney, Jas. B.
Dr. Gautine, H. M. Tennery, Senica
Johns, J. H. Garnett, J. H Jury, ------ Cotham, etc. Showery -
Oct. 21, 1894 Sunday At Meeting were Seth &
Sarah Street, from nr. Santa
Clara, & their bro. ---------?
& Lester? Talbot.
Oct. 22, 1894 Mon. At Ministers meeting I heard an
admirable Paper by H. Melville Tunney?
on Christianity and the Ethnic Religious.
Oct. 27, 1894 Sat Sewing Circle at Geo. N. Jones’s
at the Foothills. From 30 to 40
attended.
Oct. 31 , 1894 Wed Eliza & Richard Elliott came here.
Nov. 2, 1894 Friday E. & R. Elliott left. Hannah L. Neall came here.
Nov. 3, 1894, Sat. Semi Annual Meeting. Lucy
& Sarah Chase, H. L. Neall, A. Vally, Martha Calley, Prof. Green &
wife, Sloin Seal, Jane Ledyard, Mrs. Dimon, R? R. Packard?, Miss Garrison of the girls school E.
San Jose. L. & S. Chase from N. England, staid at
C.E.C’s.
Nov. 4, 1894 Sunday H. L.
Neall, Lucy & Lance Chase, Martha
Calley, J. B. Davy, & Ann & Sally Cloud etc. were at Mtg. & Stephen & Louise Coffin Jones
& Elbert Peasley & wife.
Ann & Sarah Cloud here to tea.
Nov. 5, 1894 Monday Lucy Chase
& her sister were here to Breakfast & left by Stage for Saratoga. H. L. Neall attended “Club with
H.E.B.
Nov. 6, 1894 Election Day.
Nov. 10, 1894 Saturday I went to Tulare. Lodged at the Grand
Hotel.
Nov. 11, 1894 Sunday Went out to I. M. Cox’s.
Nov. 16, 1894 Friday H.E.B. went to Tulare.
Nov. 18, 1894, Sun Isaac & I attended the
Congregational Church in Tulare – Wedge, Pastor.
Nov. 23, 1894 Friday. H. & I with Isaac’s
family dined at Benja Cox’s.
Nov. 25, 1894 Sunday. Cathie & I attended the Conj.
Church.
Nov. 29, 1894 Thursday. Thanksgiving Day. Benj. & Ella & Alvin Cox dined
with us at I. M. Cox’s.
The family at home
(San Jose) dined at James Beans.
Dec. 2, 1894 Sunday. H.E.B. & Isaac & Cathie attended Cong. Church.
Dec. 13, 1894 Thursday H.E.B. & I left I. M. Cox's and lodged at the Grand Hotel
in Tulare.
Dec. 14, 1894 Friday We took the 7:12 train at
Tulare. Stopped off at
Madera from 10 to 7 O'clock with Ed. & Edith Bean and reached home in the
Evening.
CASH ACCT: Feb. 1, 1894 Mtg.
Apportionment $4.60 ?
1, 1894 Pd. Thos. Cope for Sewer at P.G. $19.56
Assessment
1894 (March)
6
lots 2.3.4.Bl.27 $21.00
1
6 $ 8.50
Improvements. $20.00
June 16 Pd S Toney for Haying $ 6.75
June 18 Two cords wood $12.00
July 13, 1894 Exp. at P. Grove
$72.35
July 17 Pd Wm T. Hyde for wood $14.60
(2 cords tan oak)
Oct. 10-Pd. tax 1st
Installment $34.31
Oct. 15-Sent Tax to
Salinas $ 6.30
Oct. 23-Sent tax to P.
Grove $ 2.68
DEC. 1894—Spent at
Tulare
For
Addition to house $50.00
For Family
$36.85
Expenses of Journey $32.25
Left to Expend on
Land
$25.00
103 Letters are listed on 5 pages, by sender’s name and date
arrived, with date of reply listed by
almost all of the letters.—by month of reply.
53 addresses are written
on 5 address pages. 18 are in California, including:
Friends
Mtg. In S. F.
WCTU McAllister St. Opposite Hall of Records
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