Posted on: BLOSSOM Biographies
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Surname: BUSBY, BLOSSOM, CLOUGH
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IRA BLOSSOM
Among the early pioneers of Tulare county who have become successful ranchmen
is Ira Blossom, who was born in 1832 in the state of New York. He grew
to manhood and was educated in the Empire State and in 1852, when he was
twenty years old, sought his fortune in California. For a time he stayed
in San Francisco, an
Ira Blossom is not a blood relative to me, but he married my gggrandmother,
Julia CLOUGH. His marriage to Julia seems to have taken place one month
before the birth of my ggrandmother, Evelyn Kathleen CLOUGH daughter or
Orson CLOUGH. Evelyn was raised alongside the other BLOSSOM siblings.
Does anyone have information pertaining to the relationship between the
CLOUGH and BLOSSOM families. It appears the Orson CLOUGH and Ira BLOSSOM
families resided close to each other in NY at the same time. I have a
fe