Bienvenidos a Guanajuato, Mexico

Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd Tom 'Stetson' Shepherd ' Tom Blaise Shepherd ' Your Renaissance Host

The City of Guanajuato

pronounced gwa-na-hwa'-tow  (place of the frogs)

Welcome to Guanajuato!   My family operated El Cedro Silver Mining Co. here many years ago. At the time, my father, Dudley E. Blaise Sr., was president of the company.   I was conceived in the Guanajuato home of my parents, Clara Olive and Dudley, in  1938.   Soon after, mine workers went on strike at El Cedro and Mexican President Cardenas  expropriated the assets of 17 legally established American, British and Dutch oil companies, provoking a worldwide boycott of Mexican oil. Cardenas then sold Mexican oil to Hitler, thus fueling World War II. My mom returned to her mother's home in the USA with my brother, where I was born. During the war, my mom worked at a nearby Army base.   My father left Guanajuato in early 1939, thereby deserting us. His own mom and dad aided and abetted him. My mom obtained a divorce 10 years later while my father was working in Bolivia as a mining engineer, yet not supporting us. She then married to Charles M. Shepherd, a native of England. He died by his own hand six years later, in 1955.   After completing my primary and secondary education in Missouri, I continued my studies at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Mexico in Mexico City in 1956, when I first met my father, who was then working as an administrator for a Mexico City firm. We had dinner together on several occasions and took in a baseball game. He never offered to help me out in any way.  He died in 1988 --   --Tom Blaise Shepherd

The Blaise Family Home - Paseo de la Presa - Guanajuato highlight above picture for tour of house

Mother Clara Olive Snyder Blaise in Home Arboretum 'Garden of the Frogs'

Mother Clara Olive Blaise Holding John (Dudley Jr) Born in Mexico City 1937   view birth certificate

The Blaise Family: Father Dudley, Grandad Gene Mother Clara Olive, Grandad's Wife Marie The Gardens of Xochimilco

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Brothers John and Tom Joplin, Missouri 1943 1943

My Father Dudley (above) deserted the three of us in early 1939. My Mother Clara obtained a divorce on grounds of desertion, then married Charles Shepherd in 1949.

The Colonial City of Guanajuato Guide to Guanajuato Universidad de Guanajuato Wiki-View Realtor Guanajuato Summer Law Institute Pro Musica de San Miguel Allende

The Blaise Family History

The Shepherd Family History

Tom Blaise de Shepherd

Diego Rivera    Rivera II

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Aerial Photographs of  (Tenochtitlan) Mexico City

History of Mexico      The Politics of  Silver and Black Gold

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