San Benito-Placer-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Blessing, J. A. 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

J. A. BLESSING, a California pioneer of 1850, and a prosperous farmer of San
Benito county, residing near Hollister, is deserving of some personal mention in
this work.

  Mr. Blessing is a native of Virginia, born on the Red river, son of Abraham
and Mary (Anderson) Blessing. By the death of his parents he was left an orphan
at the age of two years and was cared for and reared by strangers. When a youth
he went to Missouri and at the age of twenty crossed the plains from that State
to California, coming via the northern route, and after a journey of
seventy-five days landed in "Hangtown" on the 1st of July, 1850. He spent
twenty-five years in the mines of Placer, El Dorado and adjoining counties, and
in 1875 came to San Benito county and located near Hollister. Here he owns a
fertile farm of eighty acres. Mr. Blessing was married at San Francisco, in
1863, to Mrs. Ruth Roe, a native of Lenawee county, Michigan. They have five
children: William A., Estella M., Mary. Alice, John Franklin and Oliver C. The
two daughters and one son are married.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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