Los Angeles-Orange-Riverside County CA Archives Biographies.....Blanchard, J. D. 1862 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    J. D. BLANCHARD, Santa Monica, was born at Newton, Mass., January 10, 1862.
His father, John B. Blanchard, in early life, was a seafaring man, as were his
ancestors for generations past. Mr. Blanchard's mother, Nancy Lyon, was a native
of Boston, Mass., a daughter of Dr. Henry Lyon. John B. Blanchard for many years
sailed the open seas; later he engaged in the sugar and shook business at
Matanzas in Cuba as a member of the firm of Alphonzo & Blanchard. He died in
1874 at sixty-two years of age, leaving the widow with a family of five
children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the youngest and only one
living. Mr. Blanchard's early life was spent in Boston, where he attended the
public schools and became a salesman in a "small-wears" store for five years.
Later he held a position for five years with the Boston Rubber Shoe Company.
Later he came to California and located on a ranch in Orange county, and
subsequently spent three years at Beaumont, after which he came to Los Angeles
and engaged in the dairy and creamery business. In 1902 he located at Santa
Monica, and with others incorporated the Imperial Ice Company, of which he is
the general manager. Mr. Blanchard married September 10, 1889, Miss Jamessetta
Crockett of Los Angeles, a native of Massachusetts and daughter of Rev. James
Crockett, a clergyman of the Freewill Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard
have one son, Howard. Mr. Blanchard is a member of the Santa Monica Board of
Education. He is a member of the B. P. O. E., the Woodmen and Order of Red Men.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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