Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Blood, George L. 1858 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   George L. Blood, a prosperous farmer and stock raiser of Sedgwick county,
Kansas, was born in Peoria county, Illinois, on January 17, 1858. His parents
were Gillman and Ellen (Almaroad) Blood. The father of Gillman Blood was Leonard
Blood, who was born December 17, 1789, and died March 7, 1847. His mother was
born August 15, 1809, and died August 20, 1856. George L. Blood came to Kansas
with his father in 1871 and remained at home until about twenty-eight years old.
In 1883 he bought eighty acres of land in section 33, Waco township. He has
added to the original purchase until he now owns 280 acres in Waco and Salem
townships. On January 25, 1887, Mr. Blood was married to Miss Emma J. Dunkin,
who was born in Cass county, Indiana, on January 1, 1865. Mrs. Blood was a
daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Rhine) Dunkin. Her father was born in Virginia
and her mother in Ohio. They were married in Indiana, where Mr. Dunkin had
pre-empted a homestead, on which he died on August 12, 1895. His widow died July
16, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Blood have four children, viz.: Bessie B., born May 22,
1888; Ethel M., born November 14, 1890; Harold D., born January 26, 1894, and
Frank E., born December 26, 1903. Mr. Blood has farmed and fed stock for the
market, averaging from seventy-five to 150 head each year. He has a fine orchard
of about eight acres. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen.

Additional Comments:
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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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