Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Blood, J. M. 1830 - 1879
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

J. M. BLOOD, son of Joseph and Rachael Blood, was born in Monroe county, New
York, October 9, 1830. At the age of fourteen he went to Rochester to learn the
trade of molder; and four years after he emigrated to Peoria, Illinois, where he
worked as his trade until 1852, when he crossed the plains to California. He was
married January 1, 1852, to Miss Ellen Brady, eldest daughter of John and Mary
Brady, at Peoria; and on the third of April they started on the long western
journey. They arrived at Marysville in the fall, and Mr. Blood worked at
carpentering and building until 1856, when he removed to Elizabethtown, where
he, in company with his brother James A., and E. D. Hasselkus, opened a general
merchandise store. In 1858 he and his brother sold out and went into the cattle
business. In the fall of 1859 our subject bought the Conant ranch of 600 acres
in Indian valley, on which he resided until 1877, when he sold it and removed to
Greenville. Two years after, he bought it back again, and again lived on the
place. Mr. Blood died December 8, 1879, leaving his wife and seven children:
Laura C, born October 29, 1854; Rachael S., December 19, 1857; John M., February
20, 1861; Ira E., April 19, 1863; William W., March 26, 1865; George D.,
September 17, 1869; May Ella, May 18, 1872. Of these, Rachael was married to
John S. Bransford, July 31, 1878; Laura C. was married to John R. Murray, August
18, 1880. Since her husband's death, Mrs. Blood has traveled most of the time,
but now resides in Greenville.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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