"Doheny State Beach is a protected beach in the state park system of California, USA, located on the Pacific Ocean in the city of Dana Point.
The beach is a popular surf spot located at the mouth of San Juan Creek, which flows from the Santa Ana Mountains southwest to the beach, where it forms a fresh-water lagoon.
It is also one of the most polluted beaches in Southern California."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doheny_State_Beach
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"The beach was donated by oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny for public use on May 31, 1931.
It was California's first state beach."
"Edward Laurence Doheny /doʊˈhiːni/ (August 10, 1856 – September 8, 1935) was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field.
His success set off a petroleum boom in Southern California, and made him a fortune when, in 1902, he sold his properties.
He then began highly profitable oil operations in Tampico, Mexico's "golden belt", drilling the first well in the nation in 1901.
He expanded operations during the Mexican Revolution, and opened large new oil fields in Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela). His holdings developed as the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, one of the largest oil companies in the world in the 1920s.
In the 1920s, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome Scandal and accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall.
Doheny was twice acquitted of offering the bribe, but Fall was convicted of accepting it. Doheny and his second wife and widow, Carrie Estelle, were noted philanthropists in Los Angeles, especially regarding Catholic schools, churches and charities.
The character J. Arnold Ross in Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! (the inspiration for the 2007 film There Will Be Blood) is loosely based on Doheny.
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"Middleburgh, July 28. –
Word has been received here that Freeman Bloodgood, ninety-two, formerly of Conesville, near Middleburgh, is dead at State College, N. M.
Mr. Bloodgood moved to New Mexico in 1881.
He engaged in teaming and hauled freight between Las Vegas and White Oaks. He also hauled the first load of ore out of Kingston in New Mexico, when that place was a mining camp.
The ore was hauled to Nut station before Deming was founded. At Kingston he was a crony of Doheny, the oil magnate.
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyschoha/fbloodgoodobit.html
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****This IS Not my Great Grandfather, but as my mom says, "faces are interesting."
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9309926/freeman-henry-bloodgood
https://www.scribd.com/document/22255272/Country-Property-Small-Investors-by-Freeman-H-Bloodgood-First-Real-Estate-Commissioner-of-California
"This is the first Directory of its kind on the Earth."----Freeman H Bloodgood-----State of California Real Estate Commissioner. The First.
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dYg0AQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-dYg0AQAAMAAJ&rdot=1
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=dYg0AQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA127
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Margaret Freeman (born Bloodgood) was born on month day 1764, at birth place, New Jersey, to Aaron Bloodgood and Abigail Bloodgood (born Carman).
Aaron was born on January 26 1738, in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
Abigail was born on June 14 1741, in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
Margaret had 5 siblings: Samuel Bloodgood, Mary Bloodgood and 3 other siblings.
Margaret married Jonathan Freeman on month day 1796, at age 32 at marriage place, New Jersey.
Jonathan was born on August 10 1764, in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
They had 10 children: Mary Prall (born Freeman), Elizabeth Edgar (born Freeman) and 8 other children.
Margaret passed away on month day 1806, at age 42 at death place, New Jersey.
She was buried at burial place, New Jersey.
https://www.myheritage.com/names/margaret_bloodgood
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"The surname Freeman is a ancient Anglo-Saxon name whose history dates back to the days before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The name is derived from "freomann" or "frigmann,"
Old English words and personal names meaning "free-born man."
(google search)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_(surname)
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