Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Blabon, William Caspar 1861 - 
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Author: Eugene T. Sawyer (1922)

  WILLIAM CASPAR BLABON.—A member of an early pioneer family is William Caspar
Blabon, who has made a name for himself as a successful orchardist and well
driller, and has been engaged in the latter occupation throughout California. He
was born September 9, 1861, on the farm of Moses Blabon, his uncle, who resided
on the Mountain View-Road. His father, Walter L. Blabon, was a native of
Franklin County, Maine, and his mother was Miss Anna F. White before her
marriage and was born and reared in Boston, Mass. The paternal grandfather,
Capt. Otis Blabon, came to California around Cape Horn in 1846, and was a member
of the vigilance committee in the early, turbulent days. Walter L. Blabon came
to California via Panama in 1860. Here he engaged in farming and in 1864
purchased 130 acres, the old homestead, which he improved with a family orchard
and followed general farming. William Caspar Blabon now owns his father's old
home and a part of the old farm, which he now devotes to raising prunes. He was
educated at the Lincoln school and in private schools of Santa Clara County,
after which he engaged in well drilling. He has continued successfully in this
line of work for twenty-five years and is still engaged in developing water
wells in many sections of California.

  The marriage of Mr. Blabon united him with Miss Annie Beasworrick, the
daughter of John and Mary E. (Billings) Beasworrick, who came from England to
Santa Clara. Mr. Beasworrick was employed in the New Almaden mines for many
years and there Mrs. Blabon was born. They are the parents of two children,
Annie May and William Caspar, Jr. Politically Mr. Blabon is an adherent of the
Republican party. He is at all times interested in the progress and advancement
of the community which has for so long been his home.


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HISTORY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
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
EUGENE T. SAWYER

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
1922


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