C. J. BLOED
The growth and resources of Merced County, and its development from large
ranches and stock ranges to a more intensive kind of agriculture, are matters of
first-hand knowledge to C. J. Bloed, for he has been a part of ranch and stock
activities here for over thirty years, and has within that space of time seen
many changes take place in this section of the State. He was born at Princeton,
Mariposa County, May 17, 1869, the son of Franklin Charles and Gertrude
(Whipler) Bloed, the former born in Baden, Germany, November 15, 1826, and the
latter a native of Carlsruhe, Germany, born March 19, 1827. The father came to
California early in 1850, and worked in the mines at Copperopolis for a short
time, and later went to Mt. Bullion. He conducted the hotel at Princeton,
Mariposa County, for six years, and from there went to Merced Falls, where he
worked in the mill. He had returned east to Pennsylvania, in 1856, and there his
marriage occurred, in Philadelphia, and their eldest child, now Mrs. J.
Coulston, of Modesto, was born in San Francisco, as the young couple soon came
to California to make their home. The father was accidentally drowned in the
Tuolumne River, near La Grange, his death occurring February 15, 1881, and the
mother lived until February 4, 1893, their last years being spent at Snelling, Cal.
The youngest of nine children born to his parents, three of whom survive, C.
J. Bloed received a good education at Merced Falls, and started in life for
himself as a plow-boy, doing his first work in 1884, on neighborhood ranches,
and continued in steady employ of large ranch and stock ranges until 1919, when
he settled at Snelling, and soon after became successor to A. Bertraind's
Snelling Pool Hall & Smoke House, where he conducts a first-class establishment.
The marriage of Mr. Bloed united him with Miss Dora A. Shaw, a native of
Oregon and daughter of William H. Shaw, late of Hopeton, Merced County. One son
has blessed their union, Franklin W., now a student at Heald's Business College
in Fresno, Mr. Bloed is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Merced, and for
three years past he has been a member of the Merced Municipal Band, playing the
slide trombone. He is a booster for Merced County, and especially the Merced
River district, one of the most fertile in the State, and even now just at the
beginning of its real development.
From John Outcalt's 1925 "History of Merced County"
The growth and resources of Merced County, and its development from large
ranches and stock ranges to a more intensive kind of agriculture, are matters of
first-hand knowledge to C. J. Bloed, for he has been a part of ranch and stock
activities here for over thirty years, and has within that space of time seen
many changes take place in this section of the State. He was born at Princeton,
Mariposa County, May 17, 1869, the son of Franklin Charles and Gertrude
(Whipler) Bloed, the former born in Baden, Germany, November 15, 1826, and the
latter a native of Carlsruhe, Germany, born March 19, 1827. The father came to
California early in 1850, and worked in the mines at Copperopolis for a short
time, and later went to Mt. Bullion. He conducted the hotel at Princeton,
Mariposa County, for six years, and from there went to Merced Falls, where he
worked in the mill. He had returned east to Pennsylvania, in 1856, and there his
marriage occurred, in Philadelphia, and their eldest child, now Mrs. J.
Coulston, of Modesto, was born in San Francisco, as the young couple soon came
to California to make their home. The father was accidentally drowned in the
Tuolumne River, near La Grange, his death occurring February 15, 1881, and the
mother lived until February 4, 1893, their last years being spent at Snelling, Cal.
The youngest of nine children born to his parents, three of whom survive, C.
J. Bloed received a good education at Merced Falls, and started in life for
himself as a plow-boy, doing his first work in 1884, on neighborhood ranches,
and continued in steady employ of large ranch and stock ranges until 1919, when
he settled at Snelling, and soon after became successor to A. Bertraind's
Snelling Pool Hall & Smoke House, where he conducts a first-class establishment.
The marriage of Mr. Bloed united him with Miss Dora A. Shaw, a native of
Oregon and daughter of William H. Shaw, late of Hopeton, Merced County. One son
has blessed their union, Franklin W., now a student at Heald's Business College
in Fresno, Mr. Bloed is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Merced, and for
three years past he has been a member of the Merced Municipal Band, playing the
slide trombone. He is a booster for Merced County, and especially the Merced
River district, one of the most fertile in the State, and even now just at the
beginning of its real development.
From John Outcalt's 1925 "History of Merced County"
C. J. BLOED
The growth and resources of Merced County, and its development from large
ranches and stock ranges to a more intensive kind of agriculture, are matters of
first-hand knowledge to C. J. Bloed, for he has been a part of ranch and stock
activities here for over thirty years, and has within that space of time seen
many changes take place in this section of the State. He was born at Princeton,
Mariposa County, May 17, 1869, the son of Franklin Charles and Gertrude
(Whipler) Bloed, the former born in Baden, Germany, November 15, 1826, and the
latter a native of Carlsruhe, Germany, born March 19, 1827. The father came to
California early in 1850, and worked in the mines at Copperopolis for a short
time, and later went to Mt. Bullion. He conducted the hotel at Princeton,
Mariposa County, for six years, and from there went to Merced Falls, where he
worked in the mill. He had returned east to Pennsylvania, in 1856, and there his
marriage occurred, in Philadelphia, and their eldest child, now Mrs. J.
Coulston, of Modesto, was born in San Francisco, as the young couple soon came
to California to make their home. The father was accidentally drowned in the
Tuolumne River, near La Grange, his death occurring February 15, 1881, and the
mother lived until February 4, 1893, their last years being spent at Snelling, Cal.
The youngest of nine children born to his parents, three of whom survive, C.
J. Bloed received a good education at Merced Falls, and started in life for
himself as a plow-boy, doing his first work in 1884, on neighborhood ranches,
and continued in steady employ of large ranch and stock ranges until 1919, when
he settled at Snelling, and soon after became successor to A. Bertraind's
Snelling Pool Hall & Smoke House, where he conducts a first-class establishment.
The marriage of Mr. Bloed united him with Miss Dora A. Shaw, a native of
Oregon and daughter of William H. Shaw, late of Hopeton, Merced County. One son
has blessed their union, Franklin W., now a student at Heald's Business College
in Fresno, Mr. Bloed is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Merced, and for
three years past he has been a member of the Merced Municipal Band, playing the
slide trombone. He is a booster for Merced County, and especially the Merced
River district, one of the most fertile in the State, and even now just at the
beginning of its real development.
From John Outcalt's 1925 "History of Merced County"
The growth and resources of Merced County, and its development from large
ranches and stock ranges to a more intensive kind of agriculture, are matters of
first-hand knowledge to C. J. Bloed, for he has been a part of ranch and stock
activities here for over thirty years, and has within that space of time seen
many changes take place in this section of the State. He was born at Princeton,
Mariposa County, May 17, 1869, the son of Franklin Charles and Gertrude
(Whipler) Bloed, the former born in Baden, Germany, November 15, 1826, and the
latter a native of Carlsruhe, Germany, born March 19, 1827. The father came to
California early in 1850, and worked in the mines at Copperopolis for a short
time, and later went to Mt. Bullion. He conducted the hotel at Princeton,
Mariposa County, for six years, and from there went to Merced Falls, where he
worked in the mill. He had returned east to Pennsylvania, in 1856, and there his
marriage occurred, in Philadelphia, and their eldest child, now Mrs. J.
Coulston, of Modesto, was born in San Francisco, as the young couple soon came
to California to make their home. The father was accidentally drowned in the
Tuolumne River, near La Grange, his death occurring February 15, 1881, and the
mother lived until February 4, 1893, their last years being spent at Snelling, Cal.
The youngest of nine children born to his parents, three of whom survive, C.
J. Bloed received a good education at Merced Falls, and started in life for
himself as a plow-boy, doing his first work in 1884, on neighborhood ranches,
and continued in steady employ of large ranch and stock ranges until 1919, when
he settled at Snelling, and soon after became successor to A. Bertraind's
Snelling Pool Hall & Smoke House, where he conducts a first-class establishment.
The marriage of Mr. Bloed united him with Miss Dora A. Shaw, a native of
Oregon and daughter of William H. Shaw, late of Hopeton, Merced County. One son
has blessed their union, Franklin W., now a student at Heald's Business College
in Fresno, Mr. Bloed is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Merced, and for
three years past he has been a member of the Merced Municipal Band, playing the
slide trombone. He is a booster for Merced County, and especially the Merced
River district, one of the most fertile in the State, and even now just at the
beginning of its real development.
From John Outcalt's 1925 "History of Merced County"
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