JOHN L.BLEECKER
BORN: 07/12/1850 San Diego, CA
DIED:1932
MARRIED: Concepcion Williams
BURIED:

PARENTS:
Father: John Reinecke Bleeker  (abt. 1819 NY)
Mother: Maria S. Lucero          (b: abt 1831 )

CHILDREN:
1. Soraida (rita) Bleecker              1884-1917
+ Sotero A Miranda
2. John W. Bleecker                    1885-1937
3. Jacob/James Bleecker              1888-1915
4  Margaret Bleeker                     1890-1939
+
Santos Jr Carrisosa                  1885-1918
5. Celestino (Selly) Bleecker         1892-1937
+Angie Castillo                           1934-
6.Catalina (carrie) Bleecker          1894-1985
+Joseph Elias                             1894-1985
7. Henry W. Bleecker                  1896-1973
+ Nieves Rivera                          1902-1993
8.Virginia Bleecker                      1897-
+. Uknown Herrera
9. Albertina Bleecker                    1899- bef 1910
10 Concepcion (emma Bleecker    1900
+Florentino Varga
11 William Bleecker                
12 Recardo Bleecker                     1903- bef 1910
13. Mary Bleecker                         1904-
+ Theodore Castillo

BIOGRAPHY
Moved to Silverado Canyon, Orange Co, California in 1900 and then moved near or on Lemon Street in Anaheim.

He Had a Dairy on Alpine in L.A.
When Lincoln was shot he was in the theatre,
He was in the War and came home with a lot of medals.

He Had a trading post in Silverado Canyon
Eleanor Chavez has the original leather bound register showing manifest of store and holdings
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He was heir to the Lucero Land of 250,000 acres but would have to give up his U.S citizenship to have claimed it and did not want to lose US citizenship.

He tried to recover money from his father's estate

See Paper dated 05/21/1897
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Picture of Grandpa Bleeker in front of the Pavillion, in Balboa (Newport Beach) was at the family reunion.
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