Santa Clara County Biographies


This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


WILLIAM CASPAR BLABON
Santa Clara County Pioneer
 
 
 
 
 SURNAMES: WHITE, BEASWORRICK, BILLINGS
 
   A member of an early pioneer family is William Caspar Blabon, who has made a 
name for himself as a successful orchardist and well driller, and has been 
engaged in the latter occupation throughout California.  He was born September 
9, 1861, on the farm of Moses Blabon, his uncle, who resided on the Mountain 
View Road.  His father, Walter L. Blabon, was a native of Franklin County, 
Maine, and his mother was Miss Anna F. White before her marriage and was born 
and reared in Boston, Mass.  The paternal grandfather, Capt. Otis Blabon, came 
to California around Cape Horn in 1846, and was a member of the vigilance 
committee in the early, turbulent days.  Walter L. Blabon came to California via 
Panama in 1860. Here he engaged in farming and in 1864 purchased 130 acres, the 
old homestead, which he improved with a family orchard and followed general 
farming.  William Caspar Blabon now owns his father's old home and a part of the 
old farm, which he now devotes to raising prunes.  He was educated at the 
Lincoln school and in private schools of Santa Clara County, after which he 
engaged in well drillling.  He has continued successfully in this line of work 
for twenty-five years and is still engaged in developing water wells in many 
sections of California. 
   The marriage of Mr. Blabon united him with Miss Annie Beasworrick, the 
daughter of John and Mary E. (Billings) Beasworrick, who came from England to 
Santa Clara.  Mr. Beasworrick was employed in the New Almaden mines for many 
years and there Mrs. Blabon was born.  They are the parents of two children, 
Annie May(O'Brien) and William Caspar, Jr (see obit below).  Politically Mr. 
Blabon is an adherent of the Republican party.  He is at all times interested in 
the progress and advancement of the community which has for so long been his 
home. 
 
 
Transcribed by Joseph Kral, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara 
County, California,  published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 338