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SEPTEMBER 2, 1871: Wilhelm Matson became a naturalized US Citizen, settling in San Francisco and establishing one of the country’s largest shipping lines.

If you are like me and enjoy watching ships sail in under the Golden Gate Bridge[1], chances are very good that you have seen a…

AUGUST 10, 1893: Chinese immigrants were deported from San Francisco after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, banning all Chinese immigration into the United States, was extended by Congress.

In 1849, the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States. They obtained jobs in the mining camps, and later found work on the transcontinental…