Central California Biographies

A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : illustrated : containing 
a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the 
present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of 
some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of 
to-day (1893)

Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
Author: Barrows, Henry D; Ingersoll, Luther A

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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GEORGE BLAKIE, a well-known farmer of Salinas valley, has been a resident 
of California since 1860. He is a naive of Scotland, and was born at Kelso, 
October 6, 1834. He came to America in 1857, and located in Monterey county in 
1863, where he has successfully farmed about 300 acres of the Cooper ranch, producing 
chiefly potatoes and grain, and he keeps about forty head of horses, his ranch being one of 
the largest in the vicinity. 

Mr. Blakie was married at the little town of Castroville, to a daughter of Thomas Will- 
iams. Mrs. Blakie is a native of the State of Connecticut. About a year ago, he removed 
with his family to their home place, "Cypress Corner," in San Miguel canon.