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Bliss, George

financier, was born April 21, 1816, in Northampton, Mass. In 1869 he associated himself with the firm of Levi P. Morton & Co., in the business of banking, under the name of Morton, Bliss & Co. The firm, with their London branch of Morton, Rose & Co., now stand in the front rank among the financial institutions of this country.

Bliss, Philemon

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 28, 1814, in Canton, Conn. He was elected president judge of the fourteenth circuit court of Ohio; and in 1854 was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth congress; re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress; and was subsequently appointed a territorial judge in Dakota.

Bliss, Philip Paul

singing evangelist, was born July 9, 1838, in Clearfield county, Pa. He was associated with Moody in his noted evangelical tours, was composer and singer of many of the sweet inspirational hymns which vivified their meetings. He was killed Dec. 30, 1876, in a railroad disaster in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Bliss, Porter Cornelius

journalist, author, was born Dec. 28, 1838, in Erie county, N. Y. He was a journalist and diplomat of some repute as a philologist.

He was the author of The Ethnography of Gran Chaco, a district of Argentina; Historia Secreta de la mision, del ciudadano noto Americano, Charles A. Washburn, cerca de gobierno de la republica del Paraguay; and The Conquest of Turkey 1877-78. He died Feb. 2, 1885, in New York city.

Bliss, William

railroad president, was born Dec. 11, 1834, in Springfield, Mass. Since 1880 he has been president of the Boston and Albany railroad.

BLISS, WILLIAM DWIGHT PORTER, clergyman, author, was born in 1856. He is an episcopal clergyman of Boston, and prominent as a leader among Christian socialists. He is the author of A Handbook of Socialism; The Social Faith of the Catholic Church; and What Is Christian Socialism? He has edited The Encyclopædia of Socialism.

Bliss, William Root

author, was born in 1825 in Connecticut. He is a business man of New York city, and the author of Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House; The Old Colony Town and Other Sketches; Colonial Times on Buzzard's Bay; Quaint Nantucket; and Paradise in the Pacific.

Blizzard, T. H

educator, lawyer, was born Sept. 23, 1871, in Russell county, Va. For several years he was professor in Wood's academy; was admitted to the bar in 1894, and practices his profession in Flat Rock, Va.

Bloch, Joseph C

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 24, 1856, in Hungary.

He took a complete course in the State University of Iowa, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1880. He was elected to the Ohio house of representatives in 1891 as a republican. He is now judge of the Cuyahoga county court of insolvency of Cleveland, Ohio.

Blodget, Lorin

statistician, author, was born May 25, 1823, near Jamestown, N. Y. He is an eminent statistician of Philadelphia who has published over 150 volumes, mainly reports upon finance, revenue, and industrial progress. He is the author of The Climatology of the United States; and Commercial and Financial Resources of the United States.

Blodget, Samuel

inventor, was born April 11, 1724, in Woburn, Mass. He commenced the manufacture of duck. In 1793 he removed to New Hampshire, and began the construction of the canal which bears his name around Amoskeag Falls.

He died Sept. 1, 1807, in Haverhill, Mass.

Blodgett, Delos Abiel

capitalist, was born March 3, 1825, in New York.

He is the owner of large timber lands in Michigan, Washington, Oregon and most of the gulf states, and is largely interested in real estate in Grand Rapids and Chicago.