Frederick Alonzo Bee was an early opponent of Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States.
32 Facts About Frederick Bee
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Frederick Bee was a California Gold Rush pioneer, miner, merchant, manager of the Pony Express, builder of the telegraph over the Sierras, developer of Sausalito, California, lobbyist for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, official at the Chinese Consulate, and vineyardist near Martinez, California.
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Frederick Bee acted in an official capacity to represent the interests of Chinese immigrants, and appeared in federal court cases; his efforts to preserve harmony were recognized by the Emperor of China.
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Frederick Bee's wife, Catherine Maxwell, was born on March 7,1828, in Ballston Spa, NY, and died on August 18,1889, in San Francisco, CA.
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Frank M Bee was born on August 11,1851, in New York, and died on June 22,1895, in San Francisco.
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Willie Howard Frederick Bee was born on December 20,1853, in Placerville, California, and died on November 10,1855, in Placerville.
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In late 1855, Frederick Bee had a successful mining operation employing 20 Chinese workers on Ledge Bar.
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Frederick Bee received 2,767 votes as an American Party candidate to be a member of the Assembly for El Dorado County in the election of 1856 but did not win the election.
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On November 30,1858, Bee wrote to William M Gwin to encourage a government subsidy to complete the telegraph to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.
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Frederick Bee announced the impending completion of the telegraph line in San Francisco in August, 1859.
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Albert Frederick Bee was engaged in silver mining in Reese River Valley.
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In 1865, Frederick Bee testified in front of the Committee on Railroads, Nevada Legislature.
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Frederick Bee advertised for laborers to build the San Francisco and Humboldt Railroad in Sausalito, CA in April, 1868.
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Frederick Bee sued the San Francisco and Humboldt Railroad for $39,050 in February, 1870 for expenditures and money supplied to the railroad.
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Frederick Bee won his lawsuit against San Francisco and Humboldt Railroad in July, 1873.
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Frederick Bee, managing agent of the New York and San Francisco Steamship Line, met with the President in May, 1870 to discuss a subsidy for steamships to run between San Francisco and Australia.
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Edward S Salomon and Frederick Bee worked for the Olympia Railroad and Coal Mining Company starting in August, 1873.
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Frederick Bee was the manager of the Olympia Railway and Mining Company in 1874.
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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, known as "The Six Companies," took legal action, and Frederick Bee joined in their defense.
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When no attorney agreed to represent the interests of Chinese residents, Senator Oliver P Morton of Indiana, chairman of the committee, asked Bee to act as attorney for the Chinese, and he agreed.
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Envoys Chen Lanbin and Yung Wing investigated Frederick Bee, who had helped the Chinese to settle disputes, and found him worthy of the appointment.
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Frederick Bee investigated murders of Chinese residents in the Western United States.
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Frederick Bee went to the sites of the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming to investigate the massacres that had taken place and forced the United States government to pay the Chinese government some US$500,000 in indemnities.
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Frederick Bee collected the names of the white assailants, but found that the United States attorney had left for Illinois.
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Frederick Bee wrote to the Senate in 1882 when Congress was debating the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Frederick Bee was appointed a Mandarin of the Blue Button by the Chinese Government in April, 1882.
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Huang Zunxian was a poet and diplomat who became Consul General in San Francisco in May, 1882 and wrote a poem about Frederick Bee expressing his approval:.
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One of Frederick Bee's duties was to verify the residency status of Chinese passengers, who had petitioned for writs of habeas corpus, so a judge could decide if the petitioners were allowed to remain in the United States.
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Frederick Bee testified in front of the Congressional Joint Committee on Immigration and Naturalization on December 6,1890, in San Francisco, CA in an attempt to refute the "evils" of Chinese immigration.
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On 15 October 1886, Frederick Bee bought 60 acres in Martinez, California.
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The Frederick Bee Ranch was on the hill between Vine Hill Way and Morello Avenue.
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Frederick Bee died of a heart-attack May 26,1892, in San Francisco.