Blaisdell, Daniel
lawyer, congressman. He was a state councilor from 1803 to 1808, and a representative in congress from New Hampshire, from 1808 to 1811. He died in 1832.
BLAISDELL, ELIJAH WHITTIER, lawyer, state legislator, author, poet, was born July 18, 1826, in Montpelier, Vt. In 1854 he moved to Rockford, Ill.; participated with Abraham Lincoln in the formation of the republican party in 1856; and was the first editor in the United States who raised his name for the presidency of the United States. He canvassed the state of Illinois for General Grant and Governor Oglesby; and was afterward a Cleveland elector. He was a candidate for congress three times in the sixth district of Illinois; was a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1859 and 1860; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. For twenty years he was an editor; and for fifteen years has been a lawyer. He is the author of a successful story entitled The Hidden Record; a drama entitled Shabbona; The Rajah, a burlesque poem; Eva, the General's Daughter, a drama in blank verse; and a volume of poems.