Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Blood, Gillman L. 1832 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

    Gillman L. Blood, of Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Maine, May 31,
1832. His parents were Leonard and Elizabeth (Gove) Blood. Leonard Blood was
born in Massachusetts December 17, 1789, and died March 7, 1847. His wife was
born in Maine on August 15, 1809, and died August 20, 1856. They moved to Peoria
county, Illinois, in 1836, and lived there the balance of their lives. Gillman
L. Blood remained in Peoria county, Illinois, until 1871, when he came to
Sedgwick county, Kansas, and pre-empted 160 acres in Section 28, Waco township,
where he still lives. On December 9, 1856, he married Ellen L. Almarood, who was
born in Quebec, Canada, on May 1, 1837. She was a daughter of George L. and
Priscilla (Kyle) Almarood, her father being an American and her mother English.
Her father died in 1842 and her mother in 1846. Mr. Blood and his wife have six
children, four of whom are living. The children are: Mrs. Lizzie Thurston, of
McPherson county, Kansas; George L., of Waco township; Edward H., of Waco
township; Everett E., of Waco township; Mrs. Carrie Perham, deceased. Mr. Blood
for many years did diversified farming and stock raising, but of late years has
devoted much time to horticulture, having forty-five acres in fruit—apples,
peaches, pears, plums—and has about five acres in asparagus. Mr. Blood has
practically retired, while Edward, his son, has leased the place. Mr. Blood is a
Republican, but never sought or held office.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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