Biographies
EDGAR H. BELLMER
John Bellmer,
the father of the subject of this sketch, was born near Bremen, Germany, May
11, 1833, and was fifteen years old when he landed in New York. When about
twenty he started out on his travels again. He sailed on the bark Catharine
Augusta bound for Australia, but his vessel calling at Rio Janeiro, sailed
right into the yellow fever, and before she could get out of the infested
port half of her passengers died. Mr. Bellmer, like
the others, was glad to get anywhere, consequently when he found himself in the
clipper ship High Flyer sailing around Cape Horn and bound for California
instead of Australia, he was satisfied. He landed in San Francisco in
September, 1853, and made his way into the mines, but four years later found
him in Sacramento in the grocery business, and he remained in that city till
his death April 4, 1899.
In the fall of 1871 Mr. Bellmer was elected county treasurer, and was again elected
to that office in the fall of 1873. He was long an active member of the
Sacramento Turn-Verein and held the offices of
president and secretary for many terms. He was also prominent in the Odd Fellow
fraternity, having been a past grand master of that order. Mr. Bellmer was married January 18, 1860, in Sacramento, to Miss
Mary Grady, of New London, Conn. They had twelve children, five of whom are
living, namely: Mrs. Carrie L. Miller of Sacramento; Mrs. W. B. Morrill of San
Francisco; W. F. Bellmer, in retail liquor trade,
Sacramento; F. R. Bellmer, head-marker, Sacramento
Laundry; and Edgar H. Bellmer, secretary of
Sacramento Laundry.
Edgar H. Bellmer
was born in Sacramento, June 25, 1883, and kept pretty close to the city
schools till he was seventeen years old, when he clerked in his father's
grocery store. Clerking and bookkeeping in the Southern Pacific Railroad store
department and other offices occupied several more years, after which he bought
an interest in the Sacramento Laundry and was elected the secretary of that
institution, which position he has ably filled for the last five
years. On December 11, 1907, Mr. Bellmer was
married to Miss M. E. Sprague of Roseville, and they have two children, Alice
L. and Edgar H., Jr. Fraternally he is a member of the Native Sons of the
Golden West.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Page 1055. Historic
Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.