ANDREW CARBLY BLOOM

Sacramento County

Biographies

ANDREW CARBLY BLOOM

ANDREW CARBLY BLOOM was born November 13, 1849, near Bonaparte, Iowa, his parents being William Henry Bloom and Delila D. (Dye) Bloom. The grandparents were Christopher and Elizabeth Bloom. The children of these in the order of their birth were Lewis, Anna, Emma, William H. H., and Samuel. “Harrison” was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 25, 1815, and was married at Windsor, Indiana, April 29, 1839, to Miss Delila D. Dye, born in Miami County, Indiana, August 27, 1823. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Bloom, with the children they then had, left Bonaparte, Iowa, March 31, 1850, and arrived at Diamond Spring, California, September 12, where they remained about eighteen months. Mr. Bloom built the second house that was erected at that place, and there kept a hotel and bakery. In the spring of 1832 he bought a claim on 480 acres on the Hubbs ranch on the Cosumnes, but the title proved worthless, and in 1854 he returned to Diamond Spring, where he resumed his old business, with the addition of a dairy, hay-yard and general store. March 25, 1855, he sold out and moved to the Pioneer House on the Lower Jackson River, nine miles east of Sacramento. Here he bought a half interest in the hotel and 320 acres of the Norris Grant, only to lose both when the land came to be surveyed a few months later. He then rented the Keystone House, seven miles from Sacramento, for two months. October 25, 1855, Mr. Bloom bought 480 acres, since known by his name, and where the subject of this sketch now resides, about two and a half miles southwest of Franklin. Later on he bought some more land in the neighborhood, and afterward sold some, the present ranch being about 340 acres. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Bloom, who reached their majority are: Hetty, born in Iowa, July 1, 1842, was married to Joseph Morrow, and died March 17, 1863; Arsinve M., born in Iowa, July 26, 1844, was married March 22, 1862, to Stephen J. Dillon, who died in Sacramento, May 29, 1879, leaving two children, Albert L., and Stephen J. Mrs. Dillon was married to Thomas P. Taylor; they are the parents of one boy, Arthur Bloom Taylor, born June 7, 1882. Adaline, now Mrs. Solomon Runyon (see sketch of Mr. Runyon); Andrew C., the subject of this sketch; Sierra Nevada, born at Diamond Spring, California, November 12, 1854, by marriage, Mrs. William Lockhart, of Richland, in this county; Pacific Ellen, born also at Diamond Spring, August 29, 1854, by marriage, Mrs. James Riley, of Sacramento; Eliza Oceana, born in Franklin Township in this county, July 10, 1856, by marriage Mrs. A. M. Cain, died April 23, 1888. Harrison Bloom died March 10, 1881, at his home near Franklin, and was buried in the Franklin cemetery, after a residence of over twenty-five years. He had been constable for many years, and was a deputy sheriff at the time of his death. He enjoyed the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends, and was universally regarded as an estimable citizen and kindly neighbor. His widow is now living in Sacramento. Andrew C. Bloom, the only son, was married April 15, 1872, to Miss Sarah Ellen Vannatta, a native of Grant County, Wisconsin, where she was born June 23, 1853, daughter of George Phillip and Mary Elizabeth (McCormack) Vannatta. Her father came to California in 1857, and settled in Placerville. The father was born January 8, 1825; the mother, January 29, 1833; were married September 20, 1852. The mother died in 1865; the father is living near Stockton. The grandfather, Henry Vannatta, a farmer in Wisconsin, died in 1884, at an advanced age. Grandmother McCormack came to California with the Vannatta family, and died at Placerville, aged sixty-five. Mrs. A. C. Bloom has one living sister, Susan M., a native of this State, now Mrs. Tharon Hollenbeck, of O’Neals, Fresno County. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Bloom are the parents of three living children: William Harrison, born February 26, 1873; Andrew Carbly, February 25, 1877; Clarence Laurel, September 1, 1879.

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 711-712. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.