Delaplane, Kristin

Feb 23, 1997

Abstract: Born in China, Chun Tim arrived in San Francisco in 1871 at the age of 18. His role as a pioneer in the Suisun Valley was noted in the 1938 memoirs of Rosa Lee Baldwin who lived on a ranch near the A.T. Hatch Ranch where Chun Tim was the labor boss. ". . . Chun Tim, the Chinese, who for so many years held forth as patriarch over a thriving Chinese settlement on the banks of the Suisun Creek, located on the Hatch Ranch. Time came to work for Mr. Hatch at the age of 20 (corrected to 18). He saved enough to enable him to go to San Francisco and bring back a shy but lovely little Chinese bride. Here for 60 years the couple continued to live, rearing a large family and gathering around them several hundred countrymen until they formed a typical Chinatown.