Kings-Tulare County CA Archives Biographies.....Blakely, James Munroe 1837 - 
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Author: History of Tulare and Kings Counties

Indiana has sent to California many men and women who have won honored place in 
the citizenship of the Golden State. Among those who have lived and prospered 
in the vicinity of Hanford, Kings county, mention should be made of James 
Munroe Blakeley. Mr. Blakeley was born in 1837 and was reared and educated in 
his native state. In 1857, when he was about twenty years old, he settled in 
Iowa, where he farmed successfully for a quarter of a century. He married 
there, in 1861, Miss Mary A. Thomas, like himself a native of Indiana, who had 
gone to Iowa with her parents, and they have had eight children: Eva married 
Harvey Burns; Olive May was the wife of H. Clawson; A. W. lives at Riverside; 
Frank is a citizen of Lemoore; Arthur E. is well known in Kings county ; Mary 
is the wife of David Porter of Hanford; Grace, who is Mrs. Charles Moss, lives 
in Kings county, and Bessie married John Bowden and lives in Philadelphia, Pa.

In 1882 Mr. Blakeley came with his family from Iowa to Grangeville, Tulare 
county, Cal. During the first two years of his residence here he farmed leased 
land, but eventually he bought land on the lake. He sold that property soon, 
however, and bought a farm on the Mussel slough, and there farmed for some 
years, then selling the place in order to buy another near Armona. In 1904 he 
secured by a trade five acres of land adjoining the northwest corner of the 
city of Hanford, which he has developed into a profitable orchard and which has 
since provided him an attractive home. As a farmer Mr. Blakeley has been 
successful within the limits of his operations, and as a citizen he has shown a 
public spirit which has won him the regard of all who know him. He is 
especially interested in education, and wherever he has lived he has done his 
utmost for the advancement of the schools in his vicinity.



Additional Comments:
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 588-589
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler







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