YEAR 1870

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1870 Federal Census compiled on July 30, 1870 in Vallejo Township, Sonoma County, California.

Name	Age	Gender	Profession	Real Estate	Personal Assets	Birthplace	Attended school within last year
Frederick Bee	43	Male	Railroad Agent	none	$1,500	New York	No
Catherine Bee	39	Female	Keeping house	none	none	New York	No
Frank M. Bee	19	Male	At home	none	none	New York	Yes
Elmon E. Starr	62	Male	Farmer	none	none	New York	No
Ann Starr	59	Female	Keeping house	none	none	New York	No
An Gin	34	Male	Farm Labor	none	none	China	No

1870 Federal Census compiled on August 23, 1870 in San Jose Township ,Santa Clara County, California.

Name	Age	Gender	Profession	Real Estate	Personal Assets	Birthplace	Attended school within last year
Barlow B. Bee	59	Male	no employment	$30,000	$10,000	New York	No
Mary Bee	47	Female	Keeping house	none	none	New York	No
George	21	Male	At home	none	none	New York	No
Millard Fillmore Bee	14	Male	blank	none	none	New York	Yes
Louisa	11	Female	blank	none	none	New York	Yes

1870 Federal Census compiled on July 25, 1870 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.

Name	Age	Gender	Profession	Real Estate	Personal Assets	Birthplace	Attended school within last year
George Haver	55	Male	Carriage maker	$1,000	$3,500	France	No
Mary Haver	51	Female	blank	blank	blank	New York	No
Libbie Haver	21	Female	blank	blank	blank	New York	No
James Palmer	26	Male	Makes fireworks	blank	$1,200	New York	No
Nellie Palmer	23	Female	blank	blank	blank	New York	No

Everett Newtwon Bee was a 9-year-old student and living in Waltham,Massachusetts.

Map of 1870s Waltham, Massachusetts


Cornelius Cole

Read about Oliver Morton

Chinese exclusion article

History of the United States from 1870-1895

"The oldest and the newest empire : China and the United States" by William Speer

Chapter 5 of A history of California labor legislation by Lucille Eaves

Chapter 27 of A history of California: the American period by R. G. Cleland
Page 416 begins description of Chinese immigrants

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5860, 7 January 1870
San Francisco Market Review

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5895, 17 February 1870
F A Bee sued San Francisco and Humboldt Bay Railroad for $39,050.

February 18, 1870
On page 178, Hannah Clapp taught 30 Chinese residents of Carson City, Nevada.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5904, 28 February 1870
Assembly Bill to donate land to San Francisco and Northern Coast Railroad

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7283, 28 February 1870
The "Great Story of Buffalo Bill" went on sale in San Francisco.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5912, 9 March 1870
Annual report of the Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad

March 30, 1870 letter written by A W Loomis regarding threats to Chinese residents

March 31, 1870
Senator Cornelius Cole introduced bill to start Ocean Mail Steamship Service between the United States and Australia.

April 9, 1870
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873
Mr. Cole presented resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, in favor of the establishment of a line of steamships between Australia and the South Pacific Islands and the port of San Francisco; which were referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7343, 29 April 1870
Quarantine and Health Act

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7349, 5 May 1870
Fred A Bee on train to go East

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 39, Number 5966, 11 May 1870
San Francisco Board of Supervisors denied request for $250,000 made by San Francisco and Norrthern Coast Railroad (San Francisco to Healdsburg via Sausalito).

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7359, 15 May 1870
Frank Pixley's speech "On the Chinese Problem"

Lecture by H.C. Bennett, Secretary of the Chinese Protection Society response to speech by Frank Pixley

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7360, 16 May 1870
Chinatown

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7365, 21 May 1870
Flour and rice statistics


Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 39, Number 5980, 27 May 1870
Colonel Bee mentioned in an article about Asiatic trade.

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7372, 28 May 1870
Australian Steamship – Mr. Bee met with the President and was scheduled to go before Congress
NOTE: I have two documents about Bee and Australian Steamship Company. If you want copies, Email Me

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 39, Number 5984, 1 June 1870
Colonel Bee in Washington DC re: Australian Steamship (incorrectly identified as Frank Bee)

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7400, 25 June 1870
Chinese Protection Society

July 2, 1870 Senate Debate

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7411, 6 July 1870
End of Chinese Naturalization
Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada worked against the naturalization of Chinese residents.

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7415, 10 July 1870
Cornelius Koopmanschap transporting Chinese labor to Georgia
Chinese in the Post-Civil War South

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 39, Number 6016, 11 July 1870
Contest Between Italians and Chinese fishermen over net
Read about Chinese shrimp industry.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 39, Number 6019, 14 July 1870
Chinese Six Companies discouraged emigration

July 15, 1870 mass Anti-Chinese meeting

July 21, 1870 Sydney Morning Herald article about San Francisco and Australian Steamship

The Sydney Mail - Jul 23, 1870
Australians in San Francisco

July 29, 1870 South Australian Register article about San Francisco and Australian Steamship

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 39, Number 6044, 13 August 1870
Negative opinion of Frederick Law Olmstead's role as manager of a quartz mine

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7458, 22 August 1870
Sausalito Land and Ferry Company auction to pay delinquent assessment

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7469, 2 September 1870
J. M.Morton of Indianapolis, Indiana traveled to San Francisco, California.
John M. Morton was the son of Senator Oliver P. Morton of Indiana.
Short biography of John. M. Morton
John M. Morton forced to withdraw nomination in 1869.
Letter from Oliver P. Morton to President Grant regarding John M. Morton's nomination
John M. Morton and wife to return from St. Paul Island in 1878.
Death of John M. Morton in 1900
SecretaryGage today received a telegram announcing the death July 15,1900 at St. Paul Island,Behrlng Sea, of apoplexy.He was buried on the island.

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7471, 4 September 1870
Quarantine Act declared unconstitutional.
Section 12
of An Act to establish a quarantine and sanitary laws for the City and County of San Francisco, and Orders and Regulations approved by the Board of Health

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7504, 7 October 1870
F A Bee, resident of Penn's Grove, at the Sonoma County Fair
NOTE: I checked the Grantee and Grantor deeds from 1831 to 1892 in the Sonoma County Recorder's office, but I did not find property records that named Frederick Bee.

October 15, 1870
Journal, Volume 19, Part 1 By New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council regarding Collie, Stewart & Company

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2091, 7 October 1870, Page 2
Negative view of James Stewart
Wellington Independent, Rōrahi XXV, Putanga 3060, 18 October 1870, Page 2
James Stewart's legal problems in Tahiti
and
La vérité sur Taïti (affaire de La Roncière) (1869)
Emile de La Roncière (1803-1874)

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 40, Number 7005, 26 October 1870
City census
Compare to 1869 private census.

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7548, 20 November 1870
Origin and distribution of coal

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7561, 3 December 1870
Speech of Colonel Bee

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 40, Number 7038, 3 December 1870
Chamber of Commerce meeting about Australian Steamship line
and
Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco to the U. S. Congress, on the subject of subsidizing an Australian steamship line. San Francisco, 1870.

Chamber of Commerce meeting about Australian Steamship line
San Francisco Chronicle (1869-Current File). San Francisco, Calif.: Dec 3, 1870. p. 2 (1 page)

New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2143, 7 December 1870, Page 3
A positive view of James Stewart
James Stewart of Collie, Stewart was in Australia to promote Webb's steamship scheme.

San Francisco Chamber of Commerce appointed Colonel Bee to lobby Congress for Australian steamship line
San Francisco Chronicle (1869-Current File). San Francisco, Calif.: Dec 11, 1870. p. 1 (1 page)

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7569, 11 December 1870
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce appointed Colonel Bee to lobby Congress for Australian steamship line

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 40, Number 7046, 13 December 1870
Colonel left for Washington, D.C., to ask for a subsidy for Australian steamship line.
I received this email on September 4, 2012, "I checked in the Witness Index 1837-1966 microfiche and the Witness search in the ProQuest Congressional database. They do not list Frederick Bee as ever having testified in a Congressional Hearing.On the microfiche, I scanned all of the Bees who have ever testified, to double check under initials, etc. and he was not listed. Best regards,Paul Rascoe,Government Documents Librarian, University of Texas Libraries"


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