Sonoma County Biographies

BLOOMER BAKER

Transcribed Sally Kaleta, July 2007

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                    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 category 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.
 
Source:"History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley, Bowen & Co.,San Francisco, 1880, 
p.470.