In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

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Ark was born in San Francisco to immigrant parents. In 1895, he was traveling from China back home when he was denied re-entry at the Port of San Francisco. Officials claimed he was not a citizen ...

In 1895, as he was coming back from a visit to China, he was detained at the port of San Francisco. "They say, look, you might have been born in San Francisco, but that doesn't make you a U.S ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10. -- Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs of New-York have decided to make San Francisco their home for the future. Mr. Oelrichs announces that he has made business arrangements for ...