SURNAMES: Whipler, Shaw
The growth and resources of
Merced County, and it development from
large ranches and stock ranges to a more intensive kind of agriculture,
are matters of first- hand knowledge to C. J. Bloed, for he has been a
part of ranch and stock activities here for over thirty years, and has
within that space of time seen many changes take place in this section
of the State. He was born at Princeton, Mariposa County, May 17,
1869, the son of Franklin Charles and Gertrude (Whipler) Bloed, the
former born in Baden, Germany, November 15, 1826, and the latter
a native of Carlsruhe, Germany, born March 19, 1827. The father
came to California early in 1850, and worked in the mines of
Copperopolis for a short time, and later went to Mr. Bullion. He
conducted the hotel at Princeton, Mariposa County, for six years, and
from there went to Merced Falls, where he worked in the mill. He had
returned east to Pennsylvania, in 1856, and there his marriage
occurred,
in Philadelphia, and their eldest child, now Mrs. J. Coulston, of
Modesto, was born in San Francisco, as the young couple soon came to
California to make their home. The father was accidentally
drowned
in the Tuolumne River, near La Grange, his death occurring February 15,
1881, and the mother lived until February 4, 1893, their last years
being spent at Snelling, Cal.
The youngest of nine children
born to his parents, three of whom
survive, C. J. Bloed received a good education at Merced Falls, and
started in life for himself as a plow-boy, doing his first work in
1884, on neighborhood ranches, and continued in steady employ of large
ranch and stock ranges until 1919, when he settled at Snelling, and
soon after became successor to A. Bertraind's Snelling Pool Hall &
Smoke House, where he conducts a first- class establishment.
The marriage of Mr. Bloed united
him with Miss Dora A. Shaw, a native
of Oregon and daughter of William H. Shaw, late of Hopeton, Merced
County. One son has blessed their union, Franklin W., now a
student at Heald's Business College in Fresno. Mr. Bloed is a
member of the Knights of Pythias of Merced, and for three years past he
has been a a member of the Merced Municipal Band, playing the
slide
trombone. He is a booster for Merced County especially the
Merced River district, one of the most fertile in the State, and even
now just at the beginning of its real development.
History of
Merced County, California : with a
biographical review of the leading men and women of the county who have
been identified with its growth and development from the early days to
the present
-Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Co., 1925, 903 pgs.
transcribed by Carolyn Feroben -
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MARIPOSA COUNTY FAMILY CHRONICLE
MARIPOSA COUNTY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
CALIFORNIA