Biography - William Bloomfield
WILLIAM BLOOMFIELD. A farmer, he was born in Indiana Aug. 18, 1837, the son of Isaac and Mary (Hahn) Bloomfield, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Indiana. He was educated in the district schools, spent his youth on a farm and his mature life in the same vocation. He came west and settled in Rio Twp. He was married to Euphemia Reed Oct. 13, 1865 [the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index lists a William Bloomfield marrying a Euphemia E. Reed in Knox County on October 12, 1865], and their union has resulted in three sons and two daughters, one son deceased. P.O. Rio.
Contributed by Joan Achille, extracted from the 1878 History of Knox County, Illinois, published by Charles C. Chapman
