The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1060 

BERT L. BLOOD.

The name of Bert L. Blood is closely associated with the wholesale fruit trade
of Wapato, for he was one of the organizers of the Sunset Fruit & Produce
Company and remains one of its officials. He was born in Oregon City, Oregon,
on the 24th of April, 1883, a son of Abel R. and Hattie A. (Stone) Blood, the
former a native of Illinois, while the latter was born in Wisconsin. Both went
to Iowa when young people and in the year 1875 Abel R. Blood established his
home in Seattle, Washington, where he became connected with the lumber trade.
His is widow is a daughter of David L. Stone, who removed to Oregon with his
family in the same year. The parents of Bert L. Blood were married in
Marysville, California, in 1880. They had become acquainted in Iowa and the
friendship thus begun ripened into love and was consummated in marriage. In 1881
Abel R. Blood removed from Washington to Oregon and there engaged in teaching
school and was also active in the lumber trade. In 1889, however, he returned to
Washington. settling at Chehalis, where he made his home until 1898. He then
removed to Aberdeen, Washington, where he remained until 1899, when he met death
by accident. His widow survives and is now living in Yakima.

After the completion of a high school course Bert L. Blood pursued a business
course and then in young manhood became actively identified with the lumber
trade. In 1904 he removed to Yakima, where he was employed along various lines
of business, and in the spring of 1907 he purchased an orchard near Yakima and
has since been identified with the horticultural interests of the valley. He was
a member of the firm of Pike & Blood, fruit dealers, from 1910 until 1916, when
he sold his interest in that connection and in 1917 became one of the organizers
of the Sunset Fruit & Produce Company, of which he has since been the vice
president. This firm has made steady progress since its organization and their
business is now large and gratifying. Mr. Blood also owns a fine fruit ranch of
five acres, which is in good bearing.

Fraternally he is connected with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen and he
belongs to the Toppenish Commercial Club. He is widely known in this section of
the state as an energetic and enterprising man and Wapato regards him as a
valued addition to her citizenship because of his business capacity and his
loyalty to every interest calculated to promote the growth and benefit of the
town.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.