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- History of Tulare and Kings Counties California
Historic Record Company (1913)
Winfield Scott Bloyd
In Colchester, McDonough county, Ill, Winfield Scott Bloyd, now a
prominent business man of Hanford, Kings county, Cal., was born November
18, 1858, son of W. Washington Bloyd, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere
in this publication. In 1861 his parents brought him across the plains
to California and settled in Tehama county, removing from there to the
San Joaquin valley, and in 1871 located in Kings county. Here they made
their home until after the Mussel Slough fight, when they turned their
faces toward the Northwest and for a year and a half resided in Oregon.
Then they returned to California and bought a ranch at Summit Lake, in
Fresno county, which they operated two years and sold out, in 1892
coming to Grangeville, Kings county, where they began raising fruit.
In 1905 Mr. Bloyd came from the ranch to Hanford, and he has since made
his home in that city. For three years he bought and sold hay and he and
his brother Levi are now contractors of cement work, doing an increasing
volume of business, which requires the investment of considerable
capital and the employment from time to time of a number of skilled
workmen. In different parts of the city are to be seen evidence of their
handicraft and enterprise.
Mr. Bloyd affiliates with the Fraternal Aid and the Woodmen of the
World. As a citizen he is public-spirited and helpful to all the
interests of the community and in political principle is Republican. In
1881 he married Miss Louisa Samuels, a native of California, who died in
1900. In 1902 he married Mrs. E. Eddy. He has two daughters, Mrs. John
Bassett and Miss Ruby Bloyd.
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Bassett Family Association Database
- Deceased
d. 1 May 1957, Fresno, California, USA