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Blodgett, Harrison H

lawyer, business man, was born Sept. 4, 1850, in Copenhagen, N. Y. He graduated from the law department of the State University of Michigan; and has attained success in the profession of law at Lincoln, Neb. He is also engaged in several business enterprises, and is the owner of Blodgett's park addition to Lincoln, Neb.

Blodgett, Rufus

banker, United States senator, was born Oct. 9, 1834, in Dorchester, N. H. He moved to New Jersey in 1866 and engaged in railroad business, and is so engaged at present.

He is president of the First National bank of Long Branch; and was a member of the New Jersey legislature. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Cincinnati in 1880, and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat and served during 1887-93.

Bloede, Gertrude

author, poet.

She is a poet and novelist of Brooklyn who has usually written under the pseudonym of Stuart Sterne, and is the author of Angelo; Giorgio and Other Poems; Beyond the Shadow; Pièro da Castiglione, a tale in verse of the time of Savonarola; and The Story of Two Lives, a novel.

Bloede, Marie

author, was born in 1821. Her poems and articles, both in English and German, attracted attention.

Her husband, as the editor of the New- Yorker Demokrat, a daily republican paper, received assistance from her literary labors. She died March 12, 1870, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Blood, Aretas

manufacturer, was born Oct. 16, 1816, in Weathersfield, Vt.

He is connected with the Nashua Iron and Steel Co.; the Manchester mills; the Amoskeag Paper mill; the Manchester Hardware company, and the Second National bank of Manchester, of which he is president.

Blood, Fred Greely

educator, lawyer, legislator, was born May 4, 1856, in West Potsdam, N. Y. For many years he taught school, and is now a prominent lawyer of Mount Vernon, Ill. He was the organizer of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union of Illinois, of which institution he was state secretary for two terms. He served with distinction as a member of the fortieth general assembly of the Illinois state legislature.

Blood, Henry A

poet. He is a successful writer of Washington, D. C., and the author of a volume of poems entitled How Much I Loved Thee.

Bloodgood, Freeman A

educator, author, was born July 17, 1867, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has attained success in educational work, has been superintendent of city schools, and is now county superintendent of schools of Fayette county, Iowa. He is the author of a textbook entitled Civil Government and School Law, and contributes to educational publications.

Bloodgood, Simeon De Witt

merchant, author, was born in 1799 in Utica, N. Y. He wrote The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution; and a treatise On Roads, and contributed largely to the periodical press. A few months before his death he was appointed consul-general for the United States of Colombia. He died July 14, 1866, in New York city, N. Y.

Bloodworth, Timothy

state senator, congressman, was born, 1736, in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina in 1790 and 1791; a senator of the United States from 1795 to 1801; and was one of those who voted for locating the seat of government on the Potomac. He died Aug. 24, 1814, near Washington, N. C.

Bloom, Jacob

educator, musician, was born May 6, 1844, in Germany. For several years he has been teacher of the violin at Miss Baur's conservatory, of He has instructed Cincinnati, Ohio. many talented pupils who have become, in their turn, superior artists.