The record-union., 1894-01-05
THE ARGONAU4'S OF FORTY NINE.
New EngIand's Associated California
Pioneers.
They VIII Hold Their Annual Reunion
and Banquet in Boston on the
24th instant.

24th instant.
The RECoRD-UNIoN has received from
George G. Spur, Secretary of the New
England Associated California Pioneers
of '49, a copy of the programme OF the an
nual reunion and banquet Of the assocla-
ton to be given at the Revere House,
Boston. on the 24th of this month, IN
commemoration of the forty-sixth ami
versary Of the discovery of gold ln Call
fornia. 1t is also the forty-fifth annlver-
sary of the year of their departure for the
land of gold. The circular bears this
greeting:
A yERITABLE MINERS MEETING.
"a ssocfate and Brother Pioneer; This
brotherhood Of California Pioneers. com
prising as it does about all that are lett
of that little band of Argonauts which
bade adieu to bleak New England during
the early months of '49, will meet to-
petber at the Revere House, Boston. and
celebrate the forty-sixth anniversary OF
the discovery Of gold, and the forty fifth
wear of their departure for that far distant
land. 1t is TO be a verltable miners
meeting, where miners can meet miners
from every section OF the mines ana clasp
HANDS in an oldfashioned handshake.
The present reunion is the LADIES' Day
for the season of '94. A day when wives
accompany their hus bands, and grace the
occasion by their presence among US. Ii
is day when the sons and daughters are
especially enjoined to be present with US
and ioin their parents IN keeping green
the memories OF departed days. Your
committee, therefore, announce with
pleasure that the fifth annual reception
J. II H., Loco .fr
House, Boston, on Wednesday. January
"a 1884, at L o'clock noon"
Committee on Banquet Music and
Decorstion-George W. Slade, Edwin
Litchtield, James II. Bennett. Leonard A.
Saville, John A. Perry, w. B. Wilbur,
George A. Kimball, John H. Eveleth,
Robert Parkin, George II. Stickney, Jas.
&. Eddy, Amos L. Jaques.
Committee on Reception-Edwin T.
Worster, Albert c.. Titcomb, w. II. h.
Hall, Nathan II. Chandler, Daniel r.
Child, Franklin Gray, Joseph T. Blake.
John w. Russell, Captain d. COTE
Phipps, Shirley A. Elsbree, Charles r.
kitteredge, Isaac b. Kirby, Sr., B. q.
Gerrsh, Simon B. Corliss, Newton S.
ingalls,.
Committee on Invitation-Warren
Fletcher. Albert Reed, Captain William
Chatheld, Granville 81. Child, \. NJ.
Hunnewell, John B. Luther, Rufus w.
Holbrook, Charles L. Badger, Noah Z.
burgess, Joseph Holmes, James A. Grant,
Frederick L. Ellenwood.
THE MEMBERSHIP.
During the year 1893 many new names
were added to the list of membership,
which now numbers 140. The new ones
and the dates of their arrival in Califor-
MIA are as follows:
Randall 6. Burrill, Boston, Mass; 18TH
4 ofs Co, L,-or1
October, l649.
Edward l.. Kittredge, Boston, Mass,
through Mexico. DO days; arrived at San
Francisco, Septem Der, 1919.
Captain D. COTE Phipps, New Haven,
Conn.,. Isthmus. 90 days; arrived at San
Francisco, June, lS49.
Charles f. Kitteredge. Rockland, Me-,
Cape Horn, 222 days, bark Oxford; ar
rived at San Francisco, August, 1919.
John B. Luther, Fall River. Mass,
Isthmus, 100 days; arrived at San Fran
cisco, July, 1849.
Samuel P. Barker, Scituate, Mass, Cape
Horn, ia days, ship Edward Everett; ar
rived at San Francisco, July, 1919.
Jonathan Burnett. South Hadley, Mass,
Isthmus, 4S days; arrived at San Fran
cisco, August, 1S49.
Elkanah Whiteley, Fall River, Mass,
Cape Horn. 1S9 days, bark Mallory; ar
rived at San Francisco, Septem ber, lS49.
Amos I. Jaques, Newburyport, Mass,
Cape Horn, lS3 days, brig Charlotte; ar
rived at San Francisco, July, l849.
Gamaliel B. Draper, Oldtown, Mass,
Cape Horn, 165 days, schooner Abbie z.
Chase; arrived at San Francisco, May,
1850.
Captain Stephen B. Perkins, Marble
head, Mass, Cape Horn, 182 days, bark
Chief; arrived at San Francisco, March,
1850.
William Howell, Swampscott, Mass,
Cape Horn, 149 days, bark San Francisco;
arrived at San Francisco, January, 1850.
THE POETIC SECRETARY.
Secretary Spur, who has written a
number of pioneer day "reminiscences for
the RECoRD-UNIoN, extends to the old
gold-diggers an invitation IN verse. as
follows:
Amid Sierra's solitude,
Beneath her stately pine,
We pitched our tent and dug for gold
Way back in-'49.
And down along her busy streams,
Where grew the tangled vine,
We built our rustic cabin there
In dear old-i49
From tent and cabin cities grew
And then came fruit and wine;
Now history gives the honor due
The men of-'49.
In '94 we meet again,
The same dear friends of old.
To ind our hearts are just as warm
As when we dug Tor gold.
Then come to the feast provided for you,
Pray let us be happy and gay;
Let's drink from the cup the Joy that is ours
And sing on, sing GA while we may.