Orovillechicochinese

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association 

Freemasonry “misnomer”

 The use of the name “Freemasonry” in this part of the our study, is a misnomer, a mistaken identity. Chinese migrants did not bring freemasonry to the United States.

98- DISTRICT COURT

CHINESE
Plaintiffs 1850-1879

9th and 15th District Cour

1890-1910

This information was taken from an index on file at Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University,

1850-1862

(have only begun this document)

1852 to 1896

Information on microfilm is on file at the County Recorders Office, located in Oroville and at the Meriam Libray, California State University, Chico. Both were examined and the following information was discovered. 

SOME  ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY  

Steadman, Agnes, and Jean Minasian (co-editors)

1976 Oroville: Legacy of a Gold Town.  Friends of the Parks of Oroville, Oroville.

According to Hsu (2000:29-30,32) it is difficult to find accurate figures for nineteenth-century Chinese migration to the United States.  As restrictions increased many  Chinese miners and laborers entered the country illegally and avoided contact with official agencies.  As a result federal records, 

This listing was a copy of a hand written/transcribed ledger whose provenance remains unclear. It’s day book title is puzzling as well.

INDEX FOR YEARS OF 1874-1916

The index shown here is massively incomplete, prepared sometime after the original paperwork had been filed and then (over time) disappeared. The actual files were not found when we looked for them on microfilm. We have not checked if the original documents survived.

This information was taken from microfilm on file at the Meriam Library, California State University Chico.  It is obvious that much of the original listing has not survived time,  especially considering the long span of years covered by this index.

Some of the information was hard to decipher.  A question mark (?) has been placed if the information was unclear.

CHINESE 

1893-1901

This information was taken from an index of a register of deaths ledger on file at Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.  Some of the names were hard to read, they were listed here as they appeared to me.  Place of death is listed within the parentheses.  The “suburbs of Oroville” could be the Oroville Chinatown or other parts of the towns or populated places around the Feather River drainage. By the time of the 1900 census the area enumeration districts and Chinese population had expanded beyond the 1860 census boundaries. The 1910 census was taken after the flooding 

Feather River (March 1907) destroyed the area around Broderick and Safford Street.