Merced-Los Angeles-Kern County CA Archives Biographies.....Bridegroom, Clyde E. 1885 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

CLYDE E. BRIDEGROOM

   A representative dairyman of the Fairview Precinct in Merced County, who has
made his own way in the world and has reached his present place in the esteem of
his fellow men, is Clyde E. Bridegroom, residing about seven miles southwest of
Turlock. Mr. Bridegroom was born at Mt. Carmel, Wabash County, Ill., December
28, 1885, the son of William E. Bridegroom, the present mayor of Turlock,
Stanislaus County. The latter was born in Winamac, Ind., and became a railroad
man, running on freight and later on passenger trains as a conductor, first with
the "Big Four," then with the Wabash, and later was with the Texas Pacific in
Texas. He had married in Indiana, Miss Mary Gill, born in that State; and she
bore her husband four children who are now living.

   Clyde E. attended the public schools in Illinois and after completing his
courses at the age of sixteen he took to farming on 192 acres owned by his
father at Reinard, Ill. The lure of California called to the young farmer in
Illinois and on October 3, 1905, he arrived in Los Angeles to see if he could
not better his condition, he being the first member of his family to come this
far West. After the usual sight-seeing in the southland, Mr. Bridegroom found
employment in the factory owned by the Southern California Lumber & Box Company,
and a few months later he went to Bakersfield, where he was fortunate to become
a foreman for the Kern County Land Company on their 120,000-acre Poso Ranch and
he remained in that position for the ensuing seven years. His next field of
endeavor was with the American Oilfields Company, at Taft, as foreman of the
Transportation Department for two years. In 1906 he had made a visit to Turlock,
Cal., and at that time purchased a few lots in the new and growing community. In
1912 he came back to that city, but in the meantime had traded his lots for
twenty acres of land south of the city, upon which he built a house and made
improvements, and it is here that he still makes his home. Through eneral
ranching and dairying he has succeeded and now owns 120 acres of fine land upon
which he runs a dairy of seventy cows, having every modern convenience
obtainable to make his barns and equipment sanitary and convenient.

   Much of the success that has accompanied the efforts of Mr. Bridegroom he
attributes to his wife, whom he married in Modesto and who was in maidenhood,
Miss Ethel Marie Kirkwood, born in Ukiah, CaL, the daughter of William Edward
Kirkwood, who came to Mendocino County from Iowa when he was eleven years of
age. Of this happy union have been born four children: William Radcliffe, Bethel
Beatrice, Robina Bernice and Kirkwood Clyde. Mr. Bridegroom is essentially a
"home-man" as he finds his greatest happiness in the bosom of his interesting
family. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and are Republicans
in politics. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bridegroom are highly esteemed by their
ever-widening circle of friends and well-wishers.


Additional Comments:
From:

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

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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