Marin County Biographies

JAMES BLOOM

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              Born in Switzerland July 28, 1842, where he was 
educated and resided until he came to California, viz Panama, arriving in San 
Francisco May 6, 1861.  He first settled in Tomales township, and came to his 
present place in the Fall of 1864, where he has resided ever since, being 
engaged in conducting a dairy farm of seven hundred acres.  Married, in 1869, 
Lucy Firoi, a native of Switzerland.  Their children are Amelia, Sabina, John 
A., Pauldena, Clorinda, and an infant, Lucia Claudina.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880