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Blatchford, Eliphalet W

manufacturer, was born May 26, 1826, in Lansingburgh, N. Y. In 1854, he began the manufacture of lead in Chicago, Ill. His firm of E. W. Blatchford & Co., now incorporated, has been extremely successful. BLATCHFORD, RICHARD MILFORD, legislator, public official, was born April 23, 1798, in Stratford, Conn. In 1826 he was made a financial agent for the Bank of England, and in 1836 appointed to the same position by the Bank of the United States, and assisted in winding up its affairs. In 1855 he was elected to the state legislature; in 1859 commissioner of Central Park, and subsequently of the public parks generally. When the rebellion commenced he was entrusted with funds for the recruiting service, and in 1862 was appointed minister to Italy. He died Sept. 3, 1875, in Newport.