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
1900 diary is typical of
Joel’s diaries, a black leather bound volume 5 X 3 inches cover (cover missing now), about a half inch thick,
with three dates
pre-printed on each page . The
title of the volume is The Excelsior Diary1899, from
Cambridgeport Diary Co. (It appears that Joel
re-dated this 1899 Diary for 1900)
The first about 30 pages
are useful references, charts, and a 1899 calendar, but no mention of place of
publication.
Only
dates with hand written entries are listed.
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1900 =========================
ON FRONT
FLY-LEAF: Joel Bean Presented by Joel Bean Cox
Xmas
1899
Printed dates
overwritten to 1900 dates throughout.
Jan 3, 1900 Wed: Chas & Alvin went to Tulare.
Jan 4, 1900 Thurs: Lydia & children returned home from Santa Rosa where
they went on Seventh day last.(SEE 1899 DIARY LAST ENTRY)
Jan 6, 1900 Sat: E. Davis & W. B. Jones here in the
p.m. to Candy Making.
Jan 7, 1900 Sun: We went to a Mtg. At Palo Alto, at Prof Murray’s
appted by Ruth Murray Some
30 or 40 present.
Jan 10, 1900 Wed: Albert Bayes & his nephew ________?_Rettley from England
were at Mtg. We called at Geo
Hammond’s & Stephen Griffin’s in the p.m.
Jan 13, 1900 Sat: Ruth Murray came here.
Jan 14, 1900 Sun: Ruth Murray and Albert Bayes were at Mtg and spoke. R. Murray returned to Palo Alto after
dinner.
Jan 16, 1900 Tues: I went to Pacific Grove.
Jan 21, 1900 Sun: I attended the Christian Church at P. Grove. J. F. Sassith??, Pastor (a young
man)
Dined at Deborah Battle’s with Mary Wood & Ella Moore.
Jan 26, 1900 Fri: I returned home from Pacific Grove.
Jan 28, 1900 Sun: I went to the Friends Mtg in S. F. Isaac Wilson & wife from Canada were there. A good attendance. Dined at Donald
Erskine’s.
At the? School at Sunshine Hall in p.m. and returned in the Evening.
Jan 30, 1900 Tues: Sowed onion, Lettuce & table Beet
& carrot seeds.
Feb 3, 1900 Sat: Isaac Wilson from Bloomfield Canada came here. Stephen Griffin here to tea.
Feb 4, 1900 Sun: Isaac Wilson at Mtg. A Minister. I. W. called at S. Griffin’s. took tea at Alfred Wilson’s &
attended Eveng Mtg. At Stockton Ave. returning here to lodge.
Feb
5, 1900 Mon: Fred Crandall
sent for Isaac Wilson to take him a drive over the valley etc. I
attended a Lecture of Dr. Chas Brown’s at Stanford on Ethics.
Feb
7, 1900 Wed: Abby Weeks began Sewing here
Feb
11, 1900, Sun: Prof. Murray was at
Mtg & spoke and called here. Eliza
H. Varney of Canada .& Somina Comfort of Pasadena came here in the
Evening from S. F.
(SEE;
page 212 of The Doukhobors, by George Woodcock and Ivan
Avakumovic, Toronto/New York, Oxford University Press (Canadian Branch), 1968.
382 pages.
"The
first school was a very modest effort.
In the summer of 1899 Mrs. Eliza Varney, a Canadian Quaker, set
up a dispensary at Devil's Lake (or Good Spirit Lake as it was also called),
and the following summer (1900) she was joined by her cousin, Nellie Baker, a
graduate of Queen's University.
They pitched three tents, one for living quarters, one for the
dispensary, and one for a school which Nellie Baker conducted, improvising
magnificently. . . . But when she
departed there was no one to take her place immediately and so her work was
largely wasted."
Quakers
persisted again in 1902-03 and in
1903 American Quakers persuaded parents to send their children to the U.S. In 1906 they established a permanent
school for Doukhobor children in Petrovka, staffed by non-Quakers, the first
successful Doukhobor school among the Independents.)
Feb
12, 1900 Mon: James took the Friend’s to The
Willows & to call on Mary Hammond.
Feb
13, 1900 Tues: I went with The Friends to S. H.
Shelley’s to dinner. E. H.
Varney went to the Washburn School, & told about the Dukhobors to the children etc. The friends staid at G. N. Jones’s.
Feb 14, 1900 Wed: E. H. Varney & S. Comfort at Mtg at 10 and gave account
of the Dukhobors at 11—
Indian Asso. Mtg in the
p.m. Jas took the
friends to Anna Taber’s to tea.
& they returned here.
Feb 15, 1900 Thurs: E. H Varney
& S. Comfort left on 9 a.m. train for S. F.
Feb 19, 1900 Mon: I went to Stanford University & heard Dr. Brown’s Lecture on Ethics of
Social Life. And after noon
Prof Fetter? & Prof Comstock in the Farmer’s Meeting.
Mar 3, 1900 Sat: Morris & Alvin Cox
(Benjamin Cox’s two youngest sons) here
to dinner with C’s family.
Mar 4, 1900, Sun: Morris Cox & Alvin here to dinner
& left in the p.m.
MARCH, APRIL, JUNE,
JULY 1900 are BLANK pages.
The next entry
explains the blank pages.
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Trip
diary found has 6 x 4 inch black leather cover with lined unnumbered
pages. The back pages have about
46 addresses, mainly of people met in the East during the trip.
1900
“Eastern Journey” Summary of entries.
Mar
15, 1900 visit to Conservative
Friends Mtg in Pasadena on Villa Street.
Apr
3, 1900 left of Southern Pacific
for New Orleans and Wash., D. C.
April
8 1900 Reached Wash. D. C. 7 a.m. Attended Friends Mtg.
Visited
Library of Congress, Capitol Bldg (Senate & House), White House., Howard Univ., etc.
April
11, 1900 to Philadelphia. Attended
a marriage,Y.M.of M.& E
PYM
Apr 16 to 20, 1900 many gatherings
and visits and Mtgs for Worship, including Apr 20, sister C. M. Shipley’s
58 Quaker leaders, including several Cadburys.
May
12 1900 to Moorestown, N. J.where
attended Mtg May 13.
May
20 1900 to Boston Friends Mtg,
Roxbury.
Went
Worcester to Providence, R. I.
June
19 to 30, 1900 at Haverford College Summer School.
July
5 1900 returned to Philadelphia.
Philadelphia to Iowa—Iowa to
Portland and Newberg, Oregon
During
this four month period from March to August 1900 Joel Bean and Hannah Elliott
Shipley Bean attended the meetings of Eastern Quakers and met and renewed
acquaintances with the leaders of the Society of Friends and family.
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August 8, 1900 Wed: We returned home from our Eastern
Journey.
Aug. 27, 1900 Mon: Freda Moss began to work here.
Sept 4, 1900 Tues: Alvin Cox came from Tulare & staid
here.
Sept 11, 1900 Tues: Freda Moss left to work at Mr
Sanford’s.
Attended the wedding of
Joseph N. Bunting & Alice Griffen at Stephen Griffin’s. Most of the Mtg Friends, and a number
of others were present.
Sept 12, 1900 Wed: Jennie Tregoning Came here to board.
Sept 28, 1900 Fri: I went to Pacific Grove.
Oct 1, 1900 Mon: I returned home from the Grove.
Oct 7, 1900 Sun: Jennie Tregoning left & her sister
May came to help us.
Oct 19, 1900 Fri: I attended the Christian Endeavor
County Association at the 1st
Presbyterian House.
Oct 21, 1900, Sun: Alvin Cox here.--- Ephraim & Wistar Williams here to
dinner.
Oct 23, 1900 Tues: I attended W. C. T. U. State
Convention.
Oct 24, 1900 Wed: We attended W. C. T. U. State Convention.
Nov 3, 1900, Sat: Semi Annual Meeting
House filled
Program was carried out
& a paper by Anna Taber on Dr. Whitney’s Japan Mission: and a beautiful tribute in
Memory of Mary Hammond written by Abbie Roberts & read by H. E. B.
(NOTE: No mention in this 1900 Diary of her
death—was during his Eastern trip?)
Jannet Erskine & Hannah Clack & Alvin Cox staid here.
Nov 4, 1900 Sun: Read the London Epislle (sic) in the
Mtg. Donald Erskine here to dinner with the others.
ACROSS FOLD AREA OF
NOV 5, 6, 7, IS WRITTEN:
Moses Penn?
Page here Evening.
Nov 11, 1900, Sun: Elma Bean from Benicia here to dinner.
Nov 12, 1900 Mon: Archibald Crosbie called.
Nov 29, 1900 Thurs: Thanksgiving Day Ephraim & Wistar
Williams here to dinner.
Dec 1, 1900 Sat: Martha Albright came here from Tulare.
Dec 8, 1900 Sat: Sowed some Beet Seeds
Dec 12, 1900 Wed: Sewing Circle here. Sowed
some Carrot seed.
Dec 15, 1900 Sat: David Tatum came here.
Dec 16, 1900
Sun: A very rainy
morning. David Tatum was at Mtg. And went to San Jose. Jas & I attended D. Tatum’s Mtg in the afternoon
at the Cong. House.
May Tregoning left.
Dec 19, 1900 Wed: Alice Randall came here to work.
Dec 21, 1900 Fri: H. E. B. went to the Washburn School
Exercises at close of term.—
Dec 22, 1900
Sat: Alvin Cox came here from Stanford University.
Dec 24, 1900 Mon: The Boys & children went to San
Jose.
Dec 25, 1900 Tues: Morris & Alvin Cox here.
Dec 26, 1900 Wed: Morris & Alvin went away.
Dec 31, 1900 Mon: Anna & I went to the New England
Dinner at Turn Verin Hall.
===== LAST DAILY ENTRY IN THE 1900 JOEL BEAN DIARY ========
NOTE
ABSENCE OF CHARLES E. COX AND WIFE LYDIA FROM THIS 1900 DIARY. LILIAN R. SMITH VOGE OF CAMPBELL REPORTED IN HER DIARY THAT HE
WAS FIRED JUNE 5, 1900, BY
PRESIDENT JORDAN OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
t.k.
1900 Letter
Register, 2 pages plus separate “retrospective” list
continued on rear flysheet (both sides) and the inside of the rear cover. About 136 names listed.
Cash Accounts for
12 months of 1900 include gap of blank pages for April, May, June, July with
comment in August:
“Spent in Journey East etc about $500.00”
Jan. 1900 includes Newberg account see Pocket of this
book. MISSING!
MARCH has 1900 Assessments—total $3,525. Plus rents
Memoranda: has list in two places of publication subscriptions.
Joel Bean’s 1900
Diary (Engagement Calendar) was copied into the Mackintosh Computer on
Microsoft Word 4.0. Nov 12, 1998 at Swarthmore College Friends Historical
Library by
Tom M. King
393 Rutland Ave,
San Jose, CA 95128.
or E-Mail thomk48@hotmail.com