California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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JESSE AUGUSTUS BLASINGAME.� A capable and enterprising 
vineyardist and stock raiser, Jesse A. Blasingame, is industriously engaged 
in the prosecution of his chosen work. He was born on June 24, 1877, on the 
Dry Creek ranch, the home place of the Pioneer Blasingame family, of 
Fresno County, Cal. His education included attendance at the Alameda 
University Academy, from which institution he was graduated in 1895 and 
was supplemented by a course in the Fresno Business College. In 1897, J. A. 
Blasingame engaged in the stockraising business and the following year 
he returned to the home place, which consisted mainly of raw land, being 
used as a stock ranch and ranging at one time a thousand head of stock. 
After returning to the home ranch on Dry Creek, he improved forty acres and 
also in the Centerville district he improved 100 acres, where he set out a 
vineyard. When a man pursues a calling for which nature has specially fitted 
him, and in which work he finds great interest, success will crown his efforts, 
in nearly every instance. The efforts which J. A. Blasingame has so ably 
made in the development and improvement of the raw land in his section of 
the county, have met with deserved success, and at the present time he is 
the possessor of a well improved and thrifty vineyard of 160 acres of muscat 
grapes. 

Jesse A. Blasingame was united in marriage with Mary Jane Sample, a 
native of Fresno County, and daughter of D. C. Sample. The parental home 
of the Blasingames has been blessed with one child, a son, Jesse Knox.