Bliss, Aaron T
soldier, lumber merchant, congressman, was born May 22, 1837, in Peterborough, N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the tenth New York cavalry, and was in the service three years and five months, six months of which time he was confined in the prisons of Andersonville, Charleston, Macon and Columbia; he made his escape from Columbia, and after eighteen nights of travel through rebel territory reached the union lines; he rose while in the service from private to captain. Since 1866 he has resided in Saginaw, Mich., where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber. He has held many positions of public trust in his own county, having been a supervisor, alderman, president of the school board for eleven consecutive years, and president of the Soldiers' and Sailors' association of northern Michigan. In 1882 he was elected a member of the state senate. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.