The Beardsley Collection: Team Parallel Lives

OK, Dr. C and I have found a ton of new information regarding GFB. Neither of us has had any time to process this info or really interpret it. I'm passing it along in it's raw form to you guys so you can get started sifting through it:

EDIT: AFB = Amos Foster Beardsley, GFB's father.

Convention of Fruit Growers. Pretty sure this is Amos, even though it says "Mr. FA Beardsley"

Passenger List from Panama.

Another Passenger list. This one says FA Beardsley, so may not be our guy but I'm feeling pretty confident that he is.

Hoyt, Pidwell and Co. Wool and Hide advertisement. Not sure what to make of this.

Pidwell and Co. The name changes.

J Street Flour Store.

Cases of Smut (as in wheat)

Big Beardsley Mine. No clue if this is our family

Beardsley Mine history. Google Book.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

George's Early Years Reveled

I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday playing around on the California Digital Newspaper Collection - which is a phenomenal resource for California history research. I've used it before, but for some reason the research gods were shining and I got a ton of great NEW information on George and his father:

GFB's Birth Announcement

Sacramento Daily Union, Sep 25, 1857

George's father, Amos Foster Beardsley was a botanist! This really helps to explain George's scientific interests and life-long love of learning.

Daily Alta California Jan 30, 1860 (check link for full article)

George's grandfather, Amos Beardsley was a physician from the UK. This also shows Amos Foster Beardsley (GF's father). The tree that was named after him pinus beardsleyi--I think that is a ponderosa pine. I have a query sent out to an ecologist friend of mine to confirm.