Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Blume, Henry 1837 - 
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Author: W. A. & Slocum & Co. (1882)

HENRY BLUME.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait we now produce, is the
son of Frederick and Sophia (Twiste) Blume, and was born in Prussia, March 4,
1837. Here he resided until the year 1856, first being educated, and afterwards
following the occupation of a farmer. Mr. Blume now emigrated to the United
States, arrived in San Francisco August 4th of the above year, and first found
employment in a hotel. At the end of seven months, owing to ill-health, he
abandoned this vocation, but on recovery commenced gardening, which he followed
until the Spring of 1857. He next re-entered a hotel, and finally, in 1859, came
to Contra Costa county. Mr. Blume first settled near Pinole, but in 1862 sold
out and moved to his present residence and farm, consisting of three hundred and
fifty acres, where he is engaged in dairying and farming. Married, November 17,
1867, Frederika Gohuning, a native of Prussia, and has: Henry A., born July 10,
1868; Frederick A, born April 15, 1870; William F., born April 2, 1872; Charles,
born December 3, 1874; Albert F.; born December 12, 1876.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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