Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader Autobiography & Reminiscence of Thomas Ellard Beans, San Francisco, 1904. The Society of California Pioneers Thomas Ellard Beans was born in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio on December 5, 1828. In 1848 he joined a party in Pittsburg formed to go to California in search of gold. In the spring of 1849 the party left Pittsburg via steamboat to St. Louis, MO. From there the journey continued across the plains in prairie schooners. They arrived in Sacramento the following August and soon opened a miner's supply store. The business was lost however in a flood. T.E. Beans pursued mining, and various other business endeavors, including founding the private bank "Knox & Beans" in San Jose in 1866 Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 135-140, Vol. 7. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. A note exists at the end of the transcript stating, "The foregoing was copied from a San Jose Journal". This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. It appears that the photographs in this set were dispersed throughout the regular photography collection, but the photographs referenced in the related materials may or may not be these same photographs. This reminiscence provides a brief account of T.E. Beans' journey from Pennsylvania to California via the plains. It also provides some background family history as well as Mr. Beans' employment history. The time period represented by this reminiscence is from 1848 to 1901.
Beans, Thomas Ellard--1828-1905 Pioneers--California--Biography Overland journeys to the Pacific Gold miners--California--Biography California--Gold discoveries Sacramento (Calif.)--History San Jose (Calif.)--History
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Pioneers California Biography Gold miners Gold discoveries Sacramento (Calif.) History San Jose (Calif.)
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