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John W. is a native of Marion county, being born March 23, 1855, to the worthy pioneers and estimable citizens, Robert and Sarah (Monger) Bloodsworth, natives respectively of Maryland and Virginia, but farmers in Iowa after the memorable year of '49 until 1867. At this late date they assumed the responsibilities of an overland journey from their Iowa home to the fair valleys of Oregon, accomplishing this weary and dangerous task in due time without serious loss by the way, settling in Union county, one-half mile distant from the present site of Elgin. To the basic art of agriculture they devoted themselves with an industry and enterprise that gave them the rewards of a goodly heritage also gaining a fine revenue from raising stock on the farm. These labors continued until death stopped the career of the father on this earth, the date being January 1, 1876, and the remains of the good man were interred in Summerville cemetery. In 1897 the mother followed the way of all the earth, and her remains repose beside her husband. At the budding age of eighteen, our subject commenced the activities of life on his own responsibility, devoting his attention to farming until he was twenty-one years of age, when he purchased a quarter-section near Summerville, and there continued in the same occupation. In 1882 he sold that property and purchased his present valuable farm, four and one-half miles northeast from Elgin, where he has the generous allowance of two hundred acres. The place is skillfully handled, producing for its owner abundant crops, while his skill and enterprise are manifested in everything on the premises. He also is engaged in raising stock and success in this line, as in others, has characterized him constantly.

Mr. Bloodsworth married Miss Mary, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Baker) Beem, in Summerville, on February 22, 1878, and they have become the parents of five children, Julian, Edwin, Ozela, Ethel and John. Mrs. Bloodsworth's father and mother were natives respectively of Kentucky and Indiana and she was born in Dallas county, Missouri, on January 8, 1860, and from that place the family came to Oregon in 1878, the father farming on Cricket flat until the time of his death. Mr. Bloodsworth is one of the substantial men of the county, a capable and upright man, a faithful and loyal citizen and a kind and generous neighbor.