Sonoma-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Baker, Bloomer 1821 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Baker, Bloomer. Born in Rutland county, Vermont, November 3, 1821. In 1837 his
parents moved to Walworth county, Wisconsin. Here he learned the carpenter's
trade, which he followed as a business until 1848, then engaging in the marble
business at Racine, Wisconsin, for three years, when he located in. Milwaukee
and opened a marble shop, and continued business until the Spring of '53, when
he emigrated to California via Panama, arriving in San Francisco April 5th. He
soon began a third business in the catagory of industries, that of manufacturing
bricks. His place of business was on what was then known as North Beach, but now
Stockton street, San Francisco. After eighteen months time in this business he
returned to Walworth county, resided there until 1863, thence to Buffalo, New
York, and resumed his original trade, that of carpenter, working for the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, constructing cars. In 1873, he
returned to California and settled in this county, where he has since been
extensively engaged in dairying. Mr. Baker married Mary M., daughter of Robert
Bloomer, of Dorset, Vermont, November 6, 1843. She was born July 8, 1827. She
and her father were both born in the same house. By this union there has been
one child, Adelia S., born in Walworth county, Wisconsin, December 29, 1845, and
died in same place, September 7, 1842. [sic]

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by ALLEY, BOWEN & Co.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PACIFIC PRESS,
Oakland, Cal. Printers., Stereotypers and Binders.


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