1888 J. BEAN “ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR”
copied Oct. 23, 1998
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
1888 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’s
pacific coast diary for 1888,"
Containing Useful Memoranda and
Tables for Reference, Published Annually, San Francisco.
The first 60 pages are the “useful . . . reference”
Only
dates with hand written entries are listed.
========================1888============================
Jan. 12, 1888:
Thursday Isaac Cox arrived here from Germantown,
Phila--
Samuel Brun & his bro. Paul called in the evening.
Jan. 15, 1888
Sunday Miriam Maxwell
& her sons Edward & Frank
Rambo were at mtg.
Jan. 24, 1888
Tuesday I attended American
Horticultural Society in San Jose.
Parker Earle, Pres. J. C.
Ridpath etc. present.
Feb. 9, 1888, Thurs Isaac M. Cox went to his
father’s.
Feb. 11, 1888
Saturday Set out 2 Lemon Cling, 2 Solway, 1 Foster Peaches (trees) Wm. F. Bangham came here on
is way home from Alaska.
Feb. 12, 1888, Sun Wm F. Bangham from Alaska was at Meeting on his way home to
Ohio.
Feb. 13, 1888
Monday Wm. F. Bangham went on toward Pasadena.
Feb. 18, 1888 Sat H.E.B. went to San Francisco.
Feb. 20, 1888
Monday Mother arrived at S. F.
by Steamer and she and H.E.B. returned home.
Feb. 23, 1888
Thursday James R. Bean &
wife Anna F. Bean from
Benicia came here.
Mar. 2, 1888
Friday Jas. R. Bean & wife
left for home. Phebe R. Gifford
& Hannah Ladd & Mahalath Jones were here to dinner.
Mar 17, 1888 Saturday Milton & Belle
Lawrence moved into their Cottage
Mar 19, 1888, Monday G. & W. Jones & their cousin Thos.
Hancock from Cincinnati and Paul Brun & Deborah Otis here to tea.
Mar 20, 1888
Tuesday James & I went to
San Francisco---& to Strawberry Point
with a party of Chautauquans.
Dined there at Dr. Reed?? Lyford’s. In the afternoon we went to San Rafael & returned to S.
F. Spent Evening at C.
Davis’s.
Mar. 21, 1888
Wed I went to Golden Gate Park
& Cliff House & Sutro Heights in the forenoon. Returned home.
Mar 25, 1888, Sunday Reading Circle at Geo. Hammond’s
in the Evening. Finished reading “Old Fashioned Quakerism” by H.?
Pollard.?
Mar. 26, 1888
Monday Phebe R. Gifford &
Hannah Ladd started for home.
Mar. 27, 1888
Tuesday Jas. & I attended
lecture in San Jose in the Evening on Swedenborgianism, by ----- Dougerty??
Mar. 28, 1888, Wed Mother, H.E.B., & I dined at Dr.
Tomlinson’s
Mar 29, 1888 Thursday Mary Hammond here to dinner.
Mar 30, 1888
Friday Belle Lawrence &
her sister ---- Morehouse &
Helen from Oakland here to tea.
April 10, 1888 Tuesday Samuel Brun moved into their new
house Cor. Of Union Ave.
& Newhall St. James went
to P. Grove.
April 11, 1888 Wed. H.E.B. & Hannah Brun & Baby
Brun & I went to James’s Foothill Rancho (in the poem???) to stay a few days.
April 12, 1888, Thurs I climbed the mountain to the top &
looked over into Hall’s Valley and across about 9 or 10 miles to Mt.
Hamilton.
April 14, 1888
Saturday We returned from the
“Yerba Buena Rancho”.
INSERTED
LINED SMALL PAGE: John 19.11, Rev.
13.8
4th
mo. 25. 1888
Set the gratitude of thy Spirit, and the
Steadfastness of thy
father, be as a
Willow? And a pillar to those around
Thee.
O
Lord, be thou my Strength and my Stay.
April 24, 1888 Tues. Geo. & Mary? Hammond & Hiram Hammond & wife here to tea.
May 3, 1888, Thurs. John Jans? Jackson came from S. F.
& spent the night here.
May
8, 1888 Tuesday Prof. Surface took tea here. Mrs. Eleanor Davis, and “Mrs.” Southwick from
Brooklyn, N.Y.
May 12, 1888, Sat Chas., Lily, Alice
Otis & I went to hear Julia Ward Howe lecture in the
Evening—at Baptist Tabernacle.
May 13, 1888,
Sunday Tong Sing Kau & Jas. B. took tea here.
May 20, 1888
Sunday Abby Buxton &
her son from Salem, Mass. Called here with G. & W. Jones.
May 21, 1888, Monday Van Eaton cut our hay.
May 24, 1888 Thurs. Attended Commencement at the University
(of the Pacific—Methodist in College Park) Quite a rain fell.
June 4,, 1888 Monday Edward Bean & wife of Benicia came
here.
June 7, Thurs. Edward & Minnie (Sanborn)Bean went away. H. & I
went to the Internment of
Edward Rambo’s wife at Oak Hill (the pioneer cemetery in San Jose,
CA.). Isaac & Esther Miles came
here.
June 8, 1888, Fri. James took the Cousins a drive towards
Los Gatos.
Katie Boland came here to
work.
June 11, 1888, Mon. Jas. & Roanna, Isaac & Esther
Miles, Mother & I went to
Pacific Grove.
June 13,, 1888 Wed. Isaac & Esther Miles went from P. Grove to San Francisco on their way to Oregon.
June 15,, 1888 Fri. Jas.
& R. Bean returned from P.
Grove.
June 17, 18, 19, 1888 Sunday-Monday-Tuesday, Teachers’ Retreat at Pacific Grove – Pres. Reed, Superint
Hoitt, Prof. Allanger & McGrew? were principal speakers, Dr. Jewell presided.
June 21, 1888 Thursday
Excursion of Y.M.C.A. to Pacific Grove.
Gen. Howard gave a
lecture in the Evening.
June 23, 1888, Sat. Mother and & returned from P. Grove.
July 2, 1888, Mon.
H.E.B. & I went to P. Grove.
The Maburys, E. Dawson, L.
Washburn & etc. went by same train. Selah?? Brown lectured in the Evng. Subject “Round the World in 80
Mins”.
July 3,, 1888 Tues. S.
Brown lectured on Mormonism.
July 5, 1888, Thurs. Chautauqua Assembly commenced at P.
Grove.
Titus Munson Coan (friend
from Hawaii) came to visit us at
the Grove. ---------- --------- -------------
gave address in the Evening.
July 6,, 1888 Friday
Jouine Haughes?? Read a paper on
Botany. Prof. Alexander on
“Lowell”; Selah Brown
lectured (Eveng) on Old Times & New.
July 7, 1888 Sat. T. M. Coan returned to
S. F.
July 8, 1888, Sun. Attended Meeting at The Grove.
Dr. Iser preached in the
A.M. W. C. Merrill of
Sacramento in the Evening.
July 9, 1888 Mon. A
lecture on “Some Conditions of Intellectual Life” by W. C. Bartlett
(S.F.) On “Venice” in
the Eveng by M. Willetts, Santa Cruz.
July 10, 1888,
Tues. G. H. James lectured
with Ster. Views on “Glories
of the Henries” ??
July 11, 1888, Wed. Lectures,
“The Passion
Play” by Jane Tolman, Mills Seminary.
“Education
Among Greeks &
Romans” by Dr. N. G.
Schaeffer of Penn
“How the Dutch took
Holland” C.W. Wendte,
Oakland
July 12, 1888:
Thurs. Lectures,
“Robt Browning as a
Poet” by John Vance Cheney, S.F.
“The 5
Senses” by Dr. J. H. Wythe, Oakland
“Gettysburg ”,
by Gen. O. O.
Howard, S.F.
July 13, 1888
Fri. H. & I returned from
Pacific Grove.
July 14, 1888, Sat. L.S.B. Cox went to San Francisco.
C.E. Cox went on 5th day.
July 16, 1888
Mon. Calvin & Harriet
Abbott from Pasadena spent the night here.
July 21, 1888 Sat. L.S.B.C. returned home from S.F. Chas. & Imelda Tebbetts, Clarke & Mary Miles, Laura
Minthorne & Anna Bell came here.
July 22, 1888 Sunday A
full meeting. C.E.Cox returned home from S.F. Prof. J. C. Lawner with him &
D.M. Lewis came to spend the day.
Reuben Hartley & wife
to Mtg. & dined here. Many Friends called.
July 23, 1888, Mon. C. E. Tebbetts & wife left for
home. C. & M. Miles with them
to go by Steamer. L. Minthorne
& Anna Bell & Mother took tea at G. Hammond’s.
July 24, 1888
Tues. L. M. & A. B. took
tea at G. N. Jones’s. B.
& E. Cox and John Chawner? & E. Morris Cox here to tea. A company to G. N. Jones’s in the
Eveng to meet Matthew Charles & wife.
July 25, 1888
Wed. M. & E. Charles, Prof.
Chawner, & L.E.M. & A. Bell at meeting.
The National Educational
Assn. Day at San Jose -
Matthew & Eliza Charles from Richmond, Ind. & W. B. Jones here
to tea. A large company of
Friends here in the Evng.
July 26, 1888, Thurs. Laura E. Minthorne & Anna Bell went
to San Francisco to spend a few days, & take Steamer for home. Chas. & Lydia took tea at
Bert Cox’s with Prof. Chawner & others.
Aug. 2, 1888
Thurs. Sarah Wright from El
Modena & her sister Eva Stroud were here to dinner.
Aug. 6, 1888
Mon. B. C. Miles returned from
Southern Cala.
Aug. 8,
1888 Wed. The University (of
the Pacific, in College Park) term opened. B.C. Miles left for S.F. to take a Steamer for
home.
Aug. 14, 1888 Tues. Albert and Mary Tebbetts and
Mary E. Miles (Joel's sister and his other sister's daughter) and Eliza Ellen Kirk came here.
Molly Harrison here to tea.
Aug. 15, 1888
Wed. M. E. Miles & E. E.
Kirk went to P. Grove.
Aug. 17, 1888
Friday M. E. Miles & E. E.
Kirk returned from P. Grove.
Aug. 18, 1888
Sat. We took tea with
C.A. & M. H. Tebbetts at Benja
Cox’s.
Aug. 19, 1888, Sun. Amanda Taylor here with our friends to
dinner. M.E.M. & E.E. Kirk
went to S.F. to go on to Oregon.
Aug. 20, 1888
Mon. We took
tea at G. N. Jones’s with
Albert & Mary Tebbetts.
Aug. 21, 1888
Tues. Mother &
Albert & Mary Tebbetts went to P. Grove.
Sept. 11, 1888
Tues. Kate Boland left
to go to her cousins in Colusa County (CA)
Sept. 15, 1888, Sat. Samuel Sakamaki came here to
work.
Sept. 29, 1888
Sat. Kate Boland came back.
Oct. 2, 1888 Tues. I went to Pacific Grove. Jas. & R.F. Bean returned from P.G.
Oct. 11, 1888
Thurs. H.E. Bean went to
Oakland to the wedding of John & Lulu (Winchester) Adriance.
Oct. 12, 13,14,15,
1888 Fri. to Mon.
H.E.B. in S.F. &
returned.
Oct. 18, 1888, Thurs. Mother and Albert & Mary
Tebbetts and I returned from P. Grove.
(A & M T. to Jas. B’s)
Oct. 24, 1888, Wed. Albert & Mary Tebbetts
returned home.
Oct. 28, 1888
Sunday Lindley Michener from
Pasadena here to tea.
S & H. Brun & Mr. Fay a teacher at Belmont, here in Evening.
Oct. 29, 1888
Mon. Reading Memoir of Wm. P.
Alexander. Account of visit to
Society Isles.
Nov. 2, 1888, Fri. I
went to Wright’s Station and to Santa Cruz. Staid at “New England Home” by John H. Paige –
Locust St., Santa Cruz.
Nov. 3, 1888
Sat. I went to Blackburn Gulch
- to John Elliott’s place
– “Halassa Hut”. & to the Santa Cruz Beach, &
returned home.
Nov. 4, 1888
Sunday Benja Wright & family having moved to Jas.
B’s Foothill Ranch - were at Mtg. for the first time. Saml Haines here to dinner.
Nov. 10, 1888
Sat. James, Mother, H. & I
went to Sivert Shelley’s to call, & to Ellen Hobson’s.
Nov. 13, 1888
Tues. Jas., H. & Lily
& I made calls on C. Armstrong
“Mrs. Pogue, & at Harvey Sloans –
Nov. 17, 1888, Sat. Wm Hobson from Newberg, Oregon,
Staid here.
Nov. 21, 1888
Wed. Wm Hobson was at Meeting. (SEE Hobson’s diary-tk.)
C. H. Dawson & F. J.
Dawson from Leeds, Eng. & A. H. Walton & -- Barnes
were here in the Eveng. (New York
Exchange visitors, from Yorkshire, Eng.)
Nov. 24, 1888
Sat. John and Sarah (Goddard)
Newlin came here. Friends’
Social in the Eveng. at G. N. Jones’s. J. & S. N. staid at G. N. Jones’s.
Nov. 25, 1888
Sunday. John & Sarah
Newlin were at Meeting. They dined at S. Bruns’, went with Jas. B. to Stockton Ave Mtg. in
the Evening, & to Wm Ward’s to stay.
Nov. 26, 1888, Mon. L.S.B. Cox went with G. N. & W. B. Jones & Jane Ledyard to S.
Francisco to a Chinese Banquet in honor of “Sing” before his
departure for China. - J. & S.
Newlin staid here after tea at Jas. Bean’s.
Nov. 27, 1888
Tues. J. & S. Newlin left
for Los Angelos –
Nov. 28, 1888
Wed. Tong Sing Kow sailed for
China. L.S.B.Cox returned
from The City. Saml.
Brun & family from France arrived at San Jose, at his Son’s
house. Francis Matthew from Eng.
Came here. Chas. Dawson &
Arthur Walton here in Eveng.
Nov. 29, 1888, Thurs. Thanksgiving Day. Jas. & Roanna
& Harry here to dinner.
Dec. 2, 1888, Sun. Chas. & Frederick J. Dawson &
Arthur Walton here to dinner.
Dec. 5, 1888, Wed. Wm Hobson at Mtg. and here to dinner. Also, Mary Judd & her mother from Oregon.
Dec. 6, 1888
Thurs. Eleanor Davis & Her
Sister Margaret Cates were here to dinner.
Dec. 9, 1888
Sunday Benja Wright & family here to
dinner. A Conference at G. N. Js
in the P.M.
Dec. 10, 1888
Monday Francis Walkin went S.
2nd St., S.J.
Dec. 12, 1888
Wed. Wm Hobson at Mtg.
Dec. 16, 1888
Sunday I sing
God’s mercies hitherto,
Which
have been Every morning present;
And
seek His Grace for days to come,
To
light my life and lead me home.
Dec. 25, 1888 Tuesday We attended the marriage of Georgia Briggs to Wm Hannibal,
in Santa Clara. And took dinner at Jas. Bean’s.
OREGON
1888 ACCTS: Rent from H. J. Minthorne
$12, & $15—10 acres
Payments
of over $900 listed for property in Oregon.
Jess
Edwards for 1 1/2 acres $150
H.
J. Minthorne for Cottage
$100
Furnishings $50
For
wash house $100
For
10 acres
$105
Feb.
page says “see new memo Book
1889 (Feb.)
Separate folded small
sheet in diary lists loans to people:
B.
Miles (investor?) Dr $500
cash $ 5
to
pay C. T. Moone
$145.
J. Edwards $150
H. J. Minthorne
$200 for cottage & Laundry.
MEMORANDA: 3 Publications paid for, British
Friend, Phila Friend, and W. B. Record.
Selected items from 1888 CASH ACCOUNTS pages.
January 1888: 24 P. Tax on Mtg. House.
1.89
27 Mat & Carpet for Mtg.
House 2.10
February 1888: for P. Grove Assembly Hall
3.00
March: Sent C.E.B. tuition $50.00
April: 30, 1888: Pd for
repair of Hydrant at P.G. .75 c.
May 1888: 11
Lumber $
4.60
Nails .35
White wash brush .60
June 1888: Expended at Pacific Grove -
Improvements
& work $25.85
Stove $11.85
Mattress
$5.50 Carpet $2.75 $
8.25
Expenses $10.85
July: 13,
1888 Exp. at P. Grove $ 1.70
13. Paints $3.55 -$2.00= $ 1.55
August: 22. 1888 For pictures of House (which?) $ .50
October 1888: Expenses at Monterey $ 9.55
20 for horse & buggy $14.00
30 Pd tax Monterey County $ 7.11
November 1888: 3 Exp. To Santa Cruz $ 3.45
21. Pd Taxes $77.85
15. Sent to Peace Society $ 1.00
December 1888: 26 Pd. tax on
L.S.Blas lot? $ 8.50
31 Lumber $ 2.90
AFTER THE 1888 CASH ACCTS
ARE:
5 pages with 27
addresses, most local San Jose people.
86 names are listed
“for leaflets, sent 12 Mo 16.
Most are visitors and
family names, local and distant.
No addresses.
5 pages of almost 80
names of letter writers with date of reply
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Joel Bean’s 1888
Engagement Calendar was copied into the Mackintosh Computer on Microsoft Word
4.0. October 23, 1998 at Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library by
Tom M. King
393 Rutland Ave,
San Jose, CA 95128.
PHONE (408) 286-7157
or E-Mail thomk48@hotmail.com