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Blodgett, Henry Williams

lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born July 21, 1821, in Amherst, Mass. He removed with his parents to Illinois in 1831; studied law in Chicago, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. In 1845 he located at Waukegan in the practice of his profession; was elected to the legislature of Illinois in 1852; to the state senate in 1858, and was appointed judge of the United States court for the northern district of Illinois in 1870. He was the pioneer in the building of the Chicago and Milwaukee railroad.

BLODGETT, MRS. MABEL (FULLER), author, was born in 1869 in Maine. She is the author of The Aspen Shade, a novel; Fairy Tales; In Poppy Land, a book of fairy tales; and At the Queen's Mercy, a tale of adventure.