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
1896 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 EXCELSIOR
DIARY 1896, The first about 30 pages are useful
references, charts, and a 1896 calendar, but no mention of place of name of
publisher.
Only
dates with hand written entries are listed.
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Inside
cover first sheet Has:
“Joel Bean Presented by Anna &
Catharine Cox
Xmas."
(Anna
Shipley Cox Brinton and Catharine Morris Cox Miles, Joel’s granddaughters
by his daughter Lydia and son-in-law Charles Cox. Tk)
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1896 ========================
Jan.
1, 1896 Wed: We dined at C.
E. C’s with Morris Cox who returned from Tulare yesterday. Anna Valley, Martha Calley? Paul
& Justine Brun here to tea.
“Chas. E. Cox &
Mother came to Tulare
from Pasadena & spent 7th & 1st
days
at I. M. Cox;s.
Jan. 6, 1896, Monday: Mother and Chas. E. Cox returned home
from Southern California { from Tulare today }
Henry
Keezen staid here.
Jan.
19, 1896 Sun: Mother dined
at G. Davis’s. I
attended Funeral of Dr. Cory at 2 p.m. & called at Aug. Taber’s.
Jan. 22, 1896
Wed: Sewing Circle here. Louise Jones & Alice Griffen
present.
Jan.
23, 1896, Thurs: Mary Hammond
& Abbie Roberts here to tea.
Jan.
26, 1896 Sun: Wm. Oruth came to stay & do chores.
Jan.
30, 1896 Thurs: Mother took tea with Mary Hammond.
Feb.
2, 1896 Sun: Martha Dorland’s 89th Birthday.
Feb.
3, 1896 Mon.: Augustus
Taber’s Birthday 70 yrs.
Old.
Wm.
Oreuth began to work here.
Feb.
10, 1896, Mon.: Milton Lawrence
returned home from Chicago.
Feb.
19, 1896 Wed: E. B. Miles arrived here from
Oregon.
We
attended the Funeral of Mary Parsons in the afternoon.
Mar 3, 1896 Tues.: George Braithwaite came from S. F. & spent the day here
until 5 p.m. train. He is to sail
for Japan tomorrow.
We
taeked? a comfut ??
Mar 6, 1896 Fri.:
H.E.B.& Anna Cox went to the Foothills to G. N. Jones’s to
stay a few days.
Mar
11, 1896 Wed: Mother & E. B. Miles dined at
C’s with Mary Hammond.
Mar
12, 1896 Thurs: I went to Geo. N. Jones’s at
Foothills.
Mar
13, 1896 Fri.: H.E.B. & Anna Cox returned with me
from G. N. Jones’s.
Mar
18, 1896 Wed: We dined at Frank Mise’s? with E.
B. Miles.
Mar
19, 1896 Thurs: E. B. Miles
left for Pasadena.
Mar
20, Fri.: Anna S. Cox and Rosamond
Lawrence went to Pacific Grove.
Mar
22, 1896 Sun: Attended Cong. Ch.
At the Grove.
Mar
24, 1896 Tues.: I attended “Mrs.”
Truesdell’s Lecture on “Cell life”
Mar
29, 1896 Sun: Attended Church at “St
Mary’s by the Sea.”
The Girls?? & I called
at Andrew Picketts.
April
3, 1896, Fri.: Anna Cox and
Rosamond Lawrence and I returned home from Pacific Grove after dining at S.
Clouds.
April
4, 1896 Sat: Had calls from Roanna Bean with
Mrs. Edwin B Clapp, & Walter Morris Hart of Phila, & Chas. Joseph Dyer
of Worchester Mass; the last a
Grandson of Jos. Almy. Mrs.
Clapp & WM Hart from State University, Berkeley.
April
15, 1896, Wed: Mother, H.E.B.
& I took tea at Geo. Hammond’s.
Apr.
16, 1896 Thurs: E. B. Miles returned from Pasadena.
April
23, 1896 Thurs: E. B. Miles started for home. I went with her to S. F. and Oakland. We called on Nellie Haliday on Mason
St. S. F. and on May Hoover in Oakland.
May 1,
1896 Fri.: Hannah L. Neall came here.
May 2,
1896 Sat: Semi Annual Mtg., H. L. Neall, Prof. Murray & wife, Chas. Dawson & wife, Jane
Ledyard, “Mrs.” Boardman, Dr. Mansfield etc. present. Papers read by H.E.B. & C. JONES & H. L. NEALL & READINGS BY ALICE
GRIFFIN & G. N. JONES.
May 4, 1896 Mon.: H. L.
Neall went with H.E.B. to club in the p.m.
B.
H. Jones
May 5,
1896 Tues.: H. L. Neall returned home. B. H. Jones staid here
May 6,
1896 Wed: Rose Carnival in San Jose. Richard Elliott staid here.
May
22, 1896 Fri.: Cathie and the children came home from
Tulare.
May
27, 1896 Wed: I attended
Commencement at Stanford University. Address by Prof. Anderson.
May
28, 1896 Thurs: Attended Commencement at University of the Pacific.
May
29, 1896 Fri.: Cathie
commenced the Bryn Mawr Examinations at College Park.
June
12, 1896 Fri.: H.E.B.
& I started for Oregon. Took
lunch at Hannah
Neall’s
in S. F. & took train at 8 p.m. for Portland.
June
13, 1896 Sat: Passed along the Shasta region.
June
14, 1896 Sun: Arrived at 6 a.m. in
Portland. Were met by Edwin
Morrison and took Steamer Altonna for Newberg, where we arrived a little
afternoon (sic) Attended mtg. in the Eveng A. T. Ware preached.
June
16, Tues.: Attended College
Exercises.
June
17, 1896 Wed: Attended
Commencement of Pacific College.
June 18, 1896 Thurs:
Attended Midweek Mtg. At 2 p.m.
June
20, 1896 Sat: Took tea at
Pres. Newlin’s with E. B. M
June
21, 1896 Sun: Attended Mtg. at Newburg. Dined with E. B. Miles at Jesse
Edward’s.
June
23, 1896 Tues.: Oregon Q. M.
Commenced. We dined at Wm.
Heacock’s.
June
28, 1896 Sun: At Q. M. J. H. Douglass preached. We dined with E. B. M. at Ezra
Woodward’s and took tea at Abram Morris’s with Olive Bolton etc.
June
29, 1896 Mon.: Oregon Q. M.
closed.
June
30, 1896 Tues.: Clark Miles &
Ama?? Took us a drive to Cehalism Mountains. Called at Jon s Votaw’s and Clarence
Edwards’s. John Smith &
wife, Pres. Newlin & wife & A.? E. called on us.
July
1, 1896 Wed: Left Newberg by Steamer to Portland
& took Steamer Columbia for San Francisco. Cabin Fare $5.
Each.
July
4, 1896 Sat: Landed in S. F. about 6 a.m. Took lunch at Hannah L.
Neall’s and returned home in the afternoon.
July
6, 1896 Mon.: Isaac & Cathie and Lily & their
children went to Pacific Grove.
July
8, 1896 Wed: We called at Abner
Allen’s & Geo. Hammonds
July
10, 1896 Fri.: Anna Sherman called here with E. Davis.
July
12,1896 Sun: Augustus & Anna
Taber, Alfred Dawking?, Sarah
Severance etc. at meeting.
We called at Jas. B’s, “Mr” Charles and Stephen
Jones’s in the p.m.
July
14, 1896 Tues.: I went to Pacific
Grove. Recognition Day at
the Chautauqua. An Address by Dr.
Mcclish? Lecture in the Evng
by Carlos Martin of Chicago.
July
15, 1896 Wed: Mother & H. dined at G.
Hammonds’ & went with G. & M. H. to call at Stephen
Griffin’s. E.
Morris Cox went to the Grove from Santa Rosa.
July
16, 1896 Thurs: Frank Lincoln in the Eveng at
Chautauqua.
July
17, 1896 Fri.: Woman’s Day
at Chautauqua. Susan B. Anthony, Anna Shaw, Mrs. Sargent, S. B.
Cooper etc.
present. I
returned home from P. Grove. C. E.
Cox went to the Grove.
July
20, 1896 Mon.: C. E. Cox returned
from P. Grove.
July
21, 1896 Tues.: I. M. Cox came from P. Grove.
July
23, 1896 Thurs: I. M. Cox went to Tulare.
July
25, 1896 Sat: C. E. Cox’s term of Summer School closed at
Stanford University.
July
26, 1896 Sun: Lizzie Hollingsworth
of Santa Cruz was at mtg.
July
30, 1896 Thurs: E. Morris Cox came from The Grove.
Aug.
1, 1896 Sat: E. Morris Cox left
C’s for Santa Rosa
Aug.
5, 1896 Wed: Mother & Hannah & I went
to Severt Shelley’s after mtg. To dine & spend the p. m.
Aug.
12, 1896 Wed: James & Roanna went to the Grove.
Aug.
14, 1896 Fri.: We called on Edith (Eddie Bean at her
Mother’s and at Aug. Taber’s with E. Davis.
Aug.
15, 1896 Sat” Chas. E. Cox
went to the Grove.
Aug.
15, 1896 Sun: Cousin Elena L. Bean from Benicia here
to dinner.
Aug.
16, 1896 Mon.: C. E. Cox returned from the Grove.
Aug.
24, 1896 Mon.: Edmund Robinson
& wife & two children from Newberg, Oregon, traveling in their wagon
southward, stopped on Cathies’ Lot & took tea & Breakfast with
us.
Aug.
28, 1896 Fri.: Lydia and
Cathie and the children returned from P. Grove. Jas. & R. F. Bean returned from P. Grove.
Aug.
& Anna Taber called here.
3, 1896 Thurs: H.E.B. & I went to Los Gatos and dined at Eliza Eletist.
15, 1896 Tues.: H. & I went to P. Grove. Eleanor Davis went with us.
16, 1896 Wed: With
S. Cloud’s Horse & Buggy we took a drive to Moss Beach and to see the
Wreck of the St. Paul Ship on the sands near there.
20, 1896 Sun: I attended Cong. Ch. In the morning. In the Afternoon H. & I went with
A. & S. Cloud to the Faith
Mission.
24, 1896, Thurs: H. went with The Rogers?? & S.
& Beasie Cloud on an Excursion to San Jose Can’on. Geo. Mary Hammond went to the Grove.
25, 1896 Fri.: E. Davis
returned home from the Grove.
27, 1896 Sun: H.
& I attended the Epis. Church.
Oct.
1, 1896 Thur: H. and I returned
home from P. Grove.
Eliza
Elliott staid here
Oct.
3, 1896 Sat: E.
Bean’s Birthday
94 A Family Reunion
with B. H. Jones, W. B. Jones, E. Davis, & Abby Weeks here to an Afternoon
Reception. Letters from Pasadena
and Newberg read.
Oct.
11, 1896 Sun: Willet Dorland &
wife and Benj. a Coppoc were at Meeting. Willet & Margaret Dorland were here to tea.
Oct.
13, 1896 Tues.: Lily & Cathie & Chas. took lunch at Prof.
Murray’s at
Palo Alto.
Oct.
14, Wed: H.E.B. & E. Davis took Lunch at The
“Vendome” with “Mrs.” Kimball of S. F.
Oct.
16, 1896 Fri.: Cathie had a company in the
afternoon, - Cornelia Taber, Edith Parsons, Abby
Roberts, Alice Griffin, Grace Patterson, & Miss Fath?hover?. Several prevented from coming.
Oct.
17, Sat: Lydia & Cathie
took Lunch at Chas. Blaneys.
Oct.
18, 1896 Sun: W. Mayne at
Mtg., and other strangers -
Harriet Miles and Bert
Hoover were at
C. E. C’s with us to dinner and here to spend the night. Bertha Heald here to tea with
them. G. & M. Hammond & S.
& W.B. Jones called in the Eveng.
Oct.
19, Mon.: Attended
Ministers’ Mtge. A Paper by
Dr. Briggs on the Early Anti Slavery Struggle in California.
Oct.
20, Tues.: Cathie & children
returned to Tulare.
Oct.
21, 1896 Wed: Hugh & Miriam
Maxwell here to dinner.
Sewing Circle here.
Oct.
25, 1896 Sun: David Branscom
at Mtg. From Oregon, formerly from Canada.
Oct.
26, 1896 Mon.: At Ministers’
Meeting. Read a Paper on
“The Sealed Book”
A rainy afternoon.
Oct.
28, 1896 Wed:
“Mrs.” Abeel?
from Campbell & other ladies at Meeting. H.E.B. & L.S.B.C. went to Sewing Circle at E. Shelley’s.
Nov.
1, 1896 Sun: Barnett B Flagler at Mtg. From Rochester, N.
Y. Farmington Q. M. (Engaged in prayer in Mtg.?)
Nov.
3, 1896 Tues.: General Election
day.
C.
E. C’s family and H. & I went to Campbell to an Election dinner
prepared by the ladies of the Village and afterwards we called at Col.
Cooper’s and H. Maxwell’s.
Nov.
6, 1896 Friday: Hannah L. Neall
came here.
Nov.
7, 1896 Sat: Semi Annual Mtg. Barnett Flagler of
Rochester, N. Y., present.
Paper on Indian work by Anna Taber. Bible Lesson of Prof.
Murray on
“The Angel of His? Presence” Prof. Clarence Hoag from Belmont & a large company
present. Mrs. Abeel &
Mrs. Wade from Campbell. W. T.
Mayene? etc.
Nov.
9, 1896 Mon.: H. L. Neall returned
home.
Nov.
17, 1896, Tues.: I went with C.
& L. & the children (Anna
and Catharine, future graduates) to Stanford University.
Heard Lectures by Prof. Thoburn? & Griggs.
Nov.
26, 1896 Thurs: Thanksgiving
Day James
and C. E. C’s family & B. H. Jones here to dinner.
Nov.
27, 1896 Fri.: We dined at Charles’s with Prof. Augustus
Murray & wife & Lindley, and Amelia? Tabor, Edith & Augustus Parsons
and Prof. Mather? , M. Hart, & Clarence G. Hoag and E. Morris Cox.
Dec.
3, 1896 Thurs: H.E.B. & Anna
went to San Francisco. Anna
returned in the p.m.
Dec.
4, 1896 Fri.: Eleanor Davis’s Birthday --(76 yrs of age).
Dec.
5, 1896 Sat: H.E.B returned from
S. F.
Dec.
9, 1896 Wed: Sewing Circle at Geo.
Hammond’s.
Dec.
21, 1896 Mon.: Morris Cox and Anna
& Catharine Cox went to Tulare.
Dec.
25, 1896 Fri.: Mother dined at
Bert Bean’s. H.E.B.
– C. & L. & I dined at Geo. N. Jones’s.
===LAST ENTRY IN JOEL
BEAN’S 1896 DAILY CALENDAR BOOK.
1996 MEMORANDA: Subscriptions, Ch Arbitration 1896 .50 cts, Prohibitionist
$1 (discontinued) Phila Friend
$2.00, Jas. Bean (Agent) for Amer. Friend for 1897 $1.50 Australian Friend 1897 $1.25 Pd Mtg. Money $3. Independent 5 yrs $10.00 B. Friend $1.68 Outback 2 copies $5. Pd C.E.Cox toward Daily
Mercury for 1898 $2.
19 ADDRESSES LISTED ON 2
PAGES, including:
Herbert Bert HOOVER } 2225 Ellsworth St.,
Harriet
Miles } Berkeley
1896
CASH ACCOUNTS for all 12 months, include:
Assessment:
Lots
2, 3 & 4 $1500
Imp- 2000
Lot
12- 6 700
Furniture 100
Carriage 25
$4325.00
April 1896: Expenses
at P. Grove
$5.15
Pd
on wood & paint at P.G. 8.25
For
paint 1.55
July: Exp.
to P. Grove. 3.10
Spent
in Journey to Oregon
$48.40
: Expenses of Outing at P. Grove $10.05
Rec.
for Rent of Cottage from Fred Hadley $10.20
And Water Bill 1.73
Oct.: Pd Tax $59.05
At Salinas $10.19
City Tax at P. Grove $ 2.68
Exp. on P. O. Orders .15
Nov.: 11 Pd Mtg. Money (toward raising
$30
$ 3.00
=======END OF PAGES AT END OF 1896 DIARY.
Joel
Bean’s 1896 Engagement
Calendar was copied into the Mackintosh Computer on Microsoft Word 4.0. Nov.
10, 1998 at Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library by
Tom M.
King
393
Rutland Ave,
San
Jose, CA 95128.
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