Blood, Jared P
soldier, lawyer, a lineal descendant of Sir Isaac Newton on his maternal side, was born Jan. 18, 1844, in Whitefield, N. H. He received his education at the Lancaster academy, N. H. He served as a union soldier durng the civil war, enlisting in the first New Hampshire heavy artillery, company I, in August, 1864, and served until the close of the war.
He entered the classical course at Lombard university in 1866, and graduated in June, 1870, receiving the degree of A. B.; and subsequently received the degree of A. M. from the same institution. He has been vice-president, director and general counsel for the Lincoln Park company and the Sioux City and Morningside Railway company, of which he was one of the promoters. He has become one of the foremost lawyers of the west, and has an extensive practice in Sioux City, Iowa, where he is a prominent member of the Masonic order, G. A. R., and other fraternal bodies. He has also contributed extensively to law literature and various newspapers and magazines.
BLOODGOOD, D., medical director, was born in 1831 in New York. He entered the navy as assistant surgeon in 1857, and in 1884 was promoted medical director, with the relative rank of captain in the navy, and colonel in the army.