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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
1890 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”
Only
dates with hand written entries are listed.
======================1890=====================
Jan.
1, 1890 Wed: A New Year’s
dinner at the Meeting house after Meeting.
Feb.
7, 1890 Friday: Sowed some Lettuce, Radish & Onion
seeds. H.E.B, took Lunch at
T. Ellard Beans.
Feb.
14, 1890 Friday: Had C’s lot & Mtg. House lot
plowed by Geo. Stevens.
Feb.
15, 1890, Sat: G. Stevens
sowed Wheat on C.E. B’s lot & Mtg. house lot. I put in Carrot seed.
Feb.
16, 1890 Sunday: Attended the Funeral of Annis Cox [1873-1890] , (17 year old 6th of 7 children of Benjamin and Mary
Morris Cox) at
Stockton Ave. Mtg. house, conducted by Truman Cooper.
Feb.
22, 1890 Sat: Began to take milk of Scanlow 1 qt per day.
Mar 3,
1890, Monday: H.E.B. –
L.S.B.C. & I attended the funeral of Dr. Henry Ledyard, at Dr.
Corey’s.
Mar 4,
1890, Tues.: Planted Sweet corn
etc.
Mar
13, 1890, Thurs: Cathie went to
Napa to a Y.M.C.A & Y.W.C.A.
for colleges
Mar
14, 1890, Fri.: H. & I &
Mother took tea at C.E.C. with ------ Woods & wife.
Prof.
Thobure? & wife, Prof. Hays & wife, Arthur Briggs & Prof. Ewing
there in the Evening. (& Isaac Cox)
Mar
15, 1890, Sat: Cathie came from
Napa to S. F. & staid a(t) Christy Davis’s.
Mar
16, 1890, Sunday:
Cathie returned home from S. F. before Mtg. Jane Ledyard & May at Mtg. & ------ Beck from Santa Clara.
April
1, 1890 Tues.: I went to the
Foothills with James & got the Brindle heifer 2 yrs old.
Phebe Slocum called here.
April
2, 1890, Wed: Philip C.
Garret from Phila & Phebe Slocum from N. Eng.—were at Meeting. Mabel Hutchinson & her aunt
Deborah Hutchinson here in p.m. and at C.E.C’s to tea.
April
3, 1890, Thurs: We took
tea at C. Elas with Philip & Elizabeth Garrett & their daughter Fanny.
April
10, 1890, Thurs: The
Carpenters – Crosbi & Wm. Chapman commenced work on the Cottage.
April
13, 1890, Sun: H.E.B. & I
attended Methodist Church at the .
Dr. Briggs preached.
April
22, 1890, Tues.: The Carpenters finished the Cottage outside. The Painters Geo. Ferris & Sprague had first
coat of paint put on.
April
24, 1890, Thurs: Painting of Cottage outside finished.
April
26, 1890, Sat: We
returned from Pacific Grove.
April
27, 1890, Sun: H. &
I dined at G. N. Jones’s with Lucy Tolsom.
May 6,
1890, Tues.: C.E. &
L.S.B.Cox took tea here.
May 7,
1890, Wed.: H.E.B. went to Los
Gatos to the County W.G.T.U. and staid at Jesse Hill’s.
May 8,
1890, Thurs: Ellwood Graham &
wife from Michigan, Cousin of Hannah Thisthwaite of Eng. Called here. H.E.B. returned from Los Gatos. Jas. & R. returned from P.
Grove.
May
10, 1890, Sat: Edwin and
Mary E. Morrison came here.
May
11, 1890, Sun: E. & .M.E. M. dined at C.E.C’s & took tea at Jas. B’s
May
12, 1890, Mon.: Edwin
& Mary Morrison went to P. Grove
to our Cottage.
May
15, 1890, Thurs: B & M. Jones
& Lucy Davis Folsom & C.
& L. Cox here to Lunch.
May
16, 1890, Fri.: Began to furnish milk to J. Clouds
family 1 qt daily.
May
17, 1890, Sat: Clark & Anna
Miles and Edwin & Mary Morrison came up from P. Grove (the former to Jas.
B’s.)
May
18, 1890, Sun: C. & A. Miles here
to tea.
May
19, 1890, Mon.: Edwin
& Mary Morrison left for Bloomingdale, Indiana. C. & A. Miles returned to P. Grove to Jas. B’s Cottage.
May
20, 1890, Tues.: B.H.
& Mahalath Jones & Lucy & Davis Folsom went to P. Grove
To our Cottage. Catharine
Morris Cox was born near 8 O’clock in the Evening.
May
21, Wed: Mary Tatum of New York
here to tea.
May
25, 1890 Sun: At 3 ;.m. attended
Service & dedication of the new Chapel at U. P. Baccalaureate Sermon by Dr. Jewell.
May
26, 1890, Mon.: B. G. Miles
& wife came here from The Grove.
May
27, 1890, Tues.: Clark Miles &
wife left for Pasadena.
Archanian? Society at U.
Pacific that Evng. Address of Dr.
Minton.
May
28, 1890, Wed: H. & I went to
Truman Cooper’s Birthday reception in p.m. Met Addison & Rebecca Naylor & other Friends - Rhizomian Society in the Evening at U.
P. Address by F?action --? Oakland.
May
29, 1890, Thurs: Attended
Commencement at the University.
Oration by JM Glahn?,
Wilcox, Blake McCaughey,
Susie Kingsbury & Lulu M.
Mayne and Masters Oration by J. R.
Welch, S.J.
June
10, 1890, Tues.: Jesse E. Russell
was buried at Oak Grove ?? Cemetery, from Tomales.
June
14, 1890, Sat: I was at
Mo. Mtg. At Stockton Ave.---John Henry Douglas (
evangelical minister) & wife were there.
June
18, 1890, Wed: At tent Mtg. in the
p.m. held by J. H. Douglas.
June
20, 1890, Friday: At Tent Mtg.
P.m.
June
25, 1890, Wed: J. H.
Douglas at Meeting. I was at
tent Mtg. in the p.m. Benjamin Miles died at Newberg, Oregon, (husband of Joel's sister,
Elizabeth R. Bean Miles) about 6 this
Evening.
June
26, 1890, Thurs: Cathie & I
went to Foothills to take telegram.
June
27, 1890, Fri.: C. E. Cox went to
Amador to visit a pupil ----- Treglon & see some gold mines.
June
28, 1890, Sat: Frances Walkins
came here. Thos. W. Jackson
of Sausalito here to tea.
June
29, 1890, Sunday: Thos. W. Jackson
& Frances Watkins were married at 10 a.m. by Dr. Jewell. We attended the marriage & returned
to our Meeting. J.W.J. &
wife here to tea.
July 1,
1890, Tues.: H.E.B. & C.E.B.
went to Pacific Grove. C. E.
Cox returned from Amador.
July
2, 1890, Wed: C.E.C’s family
went to the Grove.
July
6, 1890, Sun: Adonijah Gregory & wife were at meeting. & Belle Cole & son.
July
13, 1890, Sun: Miriam Maxwell,
from Kansas was at meeting with her son Edwin Rambo.
July
15, 1890, Tues.: I called at
Truman Cooper’s
July
17, 1890, Thurs: Mother & I
took dinner at Henry Trejos with his sister Rebecca Woodruff from Phila &
with B.H & M. E. Jones & Geo. & W. B. Jones.
July
21, 1890, Mon.: Chas. E. Cox
returned from Pacific Grove.
July
23, Wed: Elizabeth B. Miles (Joel's
sister) came from Oregon.
July
25, 1890, Fri.: Mary Hammond here
to tea.
July
27, 1890, Sun: Mother, E. B.
Miles, C E. Cox & I dined at Jas. Bean’s
July
31, 1890, Thurs: H. E. Bean
returned from P. Grove.
Aug.
2, 1890, Sat: E. B. M. &
Mother & H. & I called at Frank Rambo’s & at Addison
Naylor’s
Aug.
3, 1890, Sun: Edwin Rambo &
his Mother Miriam Maxwell dined here.
We
took tea at G. N. Jones’s with David Tolsom & wife & other
Friends.
Aug.
4, 1890, Mon.: E. B. M. &
Mother & H. made calls at Amanda Taylor’s & at Truman
Cooper’s
Aug.
6, 1890, Wed: David Tolsom &
wife & the Jones’s &
? & M. Hammond took tea
here.
Aug.
9, 1890 Sat: The Children returned
from Pacific Grove. E. B. Miles
& I attended Mo. Mtg. We took
tea at Jas. B’s with the Folsoms & Joneses
Aug.
12, 1890, Tues.: Mother & E.
B. Miles went to Pacific Grove.
Aug.
19, 1890, Tues.: Albert & Mary
Tebbetts (Charles Albert, and Joel's other sister, Mary Hill Bean Tebbetts) came to the Cottage at P. Grove by Steamer to
Monterey.
Aug.
25, 1890, Mon.: H. and I went to
Pacific Grove.
Aug.
27, 1890, Wed: A
Consecration Service and Confirmation at the Episcopal Ch. P. Grove.
Aug.
31, 1890, Sunday: We attended Mtg.
at M. E. Church, Pacific Grove.
Sept.
3, 1890, Wed: Robert Harding from
Ipswich, England, came to see us but in our absence went to G. N. Jones’s
& made a short visit – returning to S. F. in the p.m.
Sept.
5, 1890, Fri.: H.E.B. returned
from the Grove.
Sept.
8, 1890, Mon.: Albert Tebbetts
& I attended a Lecture to Theological Students by Dr. Briggs.
Sept.
9, 1890, Tues.: Our party at the
Grove went to Lake Magella? & Moss Beach. A & I went to a mtg. for young Ministers. Several
speakers.
Sept.
10, 1890, Wed: The Methodist
Annual Conference commenced at P. Grove.
Bishop Godsell, presiding.
Sept.
11, 1890, Thurs: Conference
of the Laity in the p.m. Miss
Sevevance read a paper on Woman Delegates to General Conference.
Sept.
12, 1890, Fri.: I returned from Pacific Grove.
Sept.
17, 1890, Wed: Mother and E.B.
Miles and Albert & Mary Tebbetts came up from the Grove.
Sept.
18, 1890, Thurs: Cathie took A. & M. T, & Eliza to
call at A. Naylors and Truman Cooper’s.
Sept. 19, 1890, Fri.: Albert & Mary and Eliz & Mother
went to the Foothills to lunch at Jas. B’s(ranch in Evergreen area of
Santa Clara Valley, East foothills. Tk)
Sept.
21, 1890, Sun: Jas. & Roanna
and all bros. & sisters have to dinner.
Sept.
23, 1890, Tues.: Albert and Mary
Tebbetts left for home.
Sept.
24, 1890, Wed: Amos Jones (from
Sandwich Isles) was at Mtg. & here to dinner. He has been north to Alaska & Newberg & -- - -
Sept.
27, 1890, Sat: Thos. Davis and
wife came here from San Leandro.
Sept.
28, 1890, Sun: Thomas Davis
& wife were at Mtg. and appointed one in the Eveng. They took tea at Geo. N. Jones’s. Amos Jones was at mtg. Tong Sing Kow was at mtg. &
called here . Expecting to sail
for China on 4th day next.
Sept.
29, 1890, Mon.: Thos. Davis and
wife left for Salinas to visit his sister.
Oct.
1, 1890, Wed: E. B. Miles went to Wm. E. Ward’s &
staid.
Oct.
3, Fri.: Mother’s Birthday (1802-1899). Jas.
& R. and Chas. & Lydia here to tea.
Oct.
7, 1890, Tues.: E. B. Miles left for home.
I went with her to San Francisco.
Called in the Eveg at C. Davis.
I staid at John Paigis.
Oct.
8, Wed: Called on Hannah L.
Neall. Returned home in the
p.m.
Nov.
1, 1890, Sat: Annual meeting of the College Park Asso. Of
Friends at the
Mtg. house. Pres. S. J. Bruin,
Sec. C. E. Bean, Trustees A. Allen, G. Hammond, G. N. Jones, C. E. Cox, S. Griffens.
Nov.
2, 1890, Sun: Commenced a few
bible Sessions on Revelations.
Nov.
3, 1890, Mon.: Attended Ministers
Mtg. at San Jose & read Essay on Peace. Ten Ministers were present.
Nov.
5, 1890, Wed: At a W.C.T.U. mtg.
at Santa Clara in the evening.
H.E.B. spoke on “the
Holy Spirit & The Word”
Nov. 6, 1890, Thurs: Elisa & Ida Shelly came & spent
the night. A social religious mtg.
held at the mtg. house - -
Nov.
10, 1890, Mon.: At
Ministers’ Union, Dr Anthony read a Paper on Training of Children. 10 or 11 present.
Nov.
11, 1890, Tues.: H. E. B. went to
Oakland to John & Lulu Adrianies’ to spend a week there & in S. F.
Nov.
13, 1890, Thurs: Meeting in the
Eveng at G. N. Jones’s.
Nov.
17, 1890, Monday: H. E. B.
returned from S. F.
Nov.
18, 1890, Tues.: Jennie Popere
& her Mother called
Nov.
20, 1890, Thurs: The Young Friends
mtg. here in the Eveng.
Nov.
26, 1890, Wed: I attended
Teachers’ Institute at the High School building on Santa Clara St., San
Jose. The State Supt. J. Coyt
& Anderson present.
Nov.
27, 1890, Thurs.: Thanksgiving
Day. Isaac Cox, Cathie & I attended a Union Service in the Baptist House, San
Jose. Jas. &
Roanna & Harry & C.E.C. family & I. C. here to dinner.
Dec.
16, 1890, Tues.: We took tea at
C.E.Cox’s A
Birthday Company (Joel Bean's birthday) at C.E.C’s in the Evening.
Frds of the Mtg. invited.
Geo. N. Holway present.
Dec.
21, 1890, Sun: J. Eddie Bean returned home from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
Dec.
24, 1890, Wed: We all took tea at
Jas. B’s with C. E. C’s family & I. M. C.
Dec.
26, 1890, 1890, Fri.: H.E.B. &
Cathie & C. & I. Cox went to a Chinese
dinner at their Mission where were about a hundred invited guests.
LAST
ENTRY IN 1890 DIARY OF JOEL BEAN--SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.
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San
Jose, CA 95128
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What follows are in the
back 60? Pages of this 1890 Diary, including Memoranda pages, Joel’s
monthly Cash Accts., his addresses book, and list of correspondents with dates
answered.
Also, three pieces of paper are folded
up and placed in the rear cover area of the volume.
POEM FROM WIFE, HANNAH
ELLIOTT BEAN (H.E.B.)
For
the voices pursue him by day
And
haunt him by night
And he
listens and needs must obey
When
the Angel says “Write” “
With a
love that deepens each passing year.
Thy H.E.B.
SECOND POEM ON STRIP OF
PAPER—BOTH SIDES.
What if Gran.pa’s beard
be gray?
Baby’s
hair is gold!
And
in her he finds again
All
his years retold.
(over)
Thy
children’s children shall rise up and call the blessed. To “Dada Dear from Auntie
Cafunn” 2.16.1889
NEXT is the draft of a
letter to Joel Bean’s future son-in-law:
As Copied:
1st mo. 21. 1890.
Dear
Isaac.
Thy
letter brings upon me a duty that I could have wished postponed to a later
date, when time might have brought additional aids to the decision of so
important a question.
Our
Cathie has been in a peculiar sense (which may not be known to thee) a child of
many prayers. She has been twice
given to us (see 1872-73 Diary of English trip, cut short by illness of
Cathie—tk.)
: and we have longed thro’
the years, that her life might fulfill the purpose of Him who gave it. This is the one thing above all others
that we desire for her.
I can contemplate marriage (TO
BACK OF SHEET OF PAPER) As designed to
be Entered into upon “Holy ground” And I realize how much depends upon Every step
in reference to it being taken in the counsel of the Lord.
You
both doubtless seek this: and feel
in some measure the responsibilities of such a relation as one another’s
keepers and one another’s helpers in the spiritual life.
Thou
cannot think we ask too much, if for our child’s life companion we want the
very best, a true and fine and noble Christian character.
We
will hope that in (crossed out words)
(writing
in two lines squeezed along side
of page) Trusting that a wise prudence may be your’s in
future plannings, I accept the prospect with the hope that in thee as a son our
aspirations may be satisfied.
THY FRD. J. B.
MEMORANDA:
I SAAC SHARP’S MOTTO: adopted 2nd Mo. 1886
“Attenda
ad me et vidibus”
“Look
unto me
And
thou shall see”
I. S (Isaac
Sharp?? A guess. tk) born 7. Mo. 4.
1806.
“Speak
to the Earth and it
will
teach thee”
Quoted
by Asa Staples, Sen
Is it
in the Proverbs?
Passages
from Bishop Goodsell at the opening of the Conference, Pacific Grove 9th mo. 10.
The
inspiration of Holiness, the serenity of humility is on looking
To
our Lord Jesus Christ. (over)
“We
know not yet the whole breadth of Our nation, nor all the possibilities of
Temptation”
“When
ready to bear the full glory of heaven, God takes us.”
“There
is no Excuse for our unbelief (after 18 centuries of Christ’s work in the
world by His Spirit:) There might
have been some when men saw him under the same limitations that we are”
“The
Christian life will look narrow and sad only as we look down and not up.”
This
day be bread & peace my lot,
All
underneath the Sun
Thou
knowist if lust bestowed or not,
Had
let thy will be done.
Pope’s
Universal Prayer
He was
one whose open face
Did
his inmost heart reveal,
One
who wore with meekest grace
On
his forehead Heaven’s Crosed?? Seal:
Like a
patriarchal sage,
Holy,
humble, courteous, mild,
He
could blend the awe of age
With
the sweetness of a child
James
Montgomery.
(From
The Richardsons of Cleveland)
SELECTED ITEMS OF
“CASH ACCT” (FOR JAN TO DEC, 1890)
January: 7 Pd for Coal $3.25
February: 15 Pd
Geo. Stevens for putting $5.00
In
2 lots in wheat
Pd
for wheat $3.00
March 1890,: 22 Lumber $4.95 + $1.70
$6.65
L.S.B.C.
$2.75
April: Pd Geo. N. Jones Mtg. House
For
J. B. $10.00
For
C.E.B.$2.00
Opposite April Page: Expanded our Cottage in Pacific Grove.
22.
Carpenters Bill & Extras paid
$184.80
25.
Painters Bill paid $
23.90
Total $208.70
Repairs
& Improvements $ 3.00
4
chairs. 65
$ 2.60
Water
bill $1.25, cutting wood $4.00
Hong
Lee 4/5 day $1.00
Cathies
Excursion?? $3.00 ticket $1
Pin
cushion .25c $ 10.50
Fare
$4.00 Exp.- $1.00 $ 5.00
May: 16 Redwood. 3
cords? Corners? Cash? $12.00
24. Pd ---? Eaton for cutting & bailing $ 2.00
28
Hay Pd for hauling hay $ 2.50
June: 14 Pd for
shoes
3.00
July: 3 Paint 1.40
10 Paint .75
12 Paint .10
31 is for Phila Friend 2.05
August: 4 Pd
for Wood-6 cords $50.75
14 Pd Dalstrom for repairing Pump $
3.00
Sept.: 24 Sent
for the Voice
$ 1.00
Oct.: 8 Exp. To S.F. with E.B.M. $
5.00
Nov.: Bal.
due B.C.Miles—Rent paid up to 11/13
$5.42
1 Paid Tax $69.81
3 Sent Tax to Salinas $
7.92
P. Grove taxes $ 1.25
19 Rec
from G. N. J. returned furnish Mtg. $ 7.00
20 Cellular Collar $ .25
1889 Sent 5 mo. $
60.25
SKIPPED
SOME DETAILS.
Expended
for trees $118.80
Getting?
Tending?? 84.10 $202.90
Up
to 11 mos. 1890 $595.48
December 1, 1890: Pd G.N.J. Notary $ 1.00
For
blank deed $ .10
25 Presents $ 6.35
“ $ .35
After Cash
Accts.—another “MEMORANDA.’ Page lists the publications Joel
takes—Friend
(2.00) Voice (1.00) Independent (5.00) CEC PO Box Rent (1.50) Ch Worker (1.00) B. Friend(4.97) in pounds.
27 Address book places
are filled with mostly local people.
Under
“Letters” 4 pages are filled with names of writer and the date
answered. 86 dates of replies are
listed by month and day.
=========== (End of 1890 Joel Bean Diary
===============
Joel
Bean’s 1890 "Engagement Calendar" was copied into the
Mackintosh Computer on Microsoft Word 4.0
Oct. 24, 1998 at Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library by
Tom M.
King
393
Rutland Ave,
San
Jose, CA 95128.
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