Blunt, James G
soldier, physician, was born in 1826 in Hancock county, Maine. In 1861 he entered the army as lieutenant-colonel of the third Kansas volunteers. He commanded the cavalry in Gen. James Lane's brigade, and in 1862, was promoted brigadier-general and assigned to the command of the military department of Kansas. On Oct. 22, 1862, in the battle of Old Fort Wayne his Kansas and Cherokee troops routed the confederate force concentrated at Maysville, on the western border of Arkansas. On Nov. 28 he attacked and defeated Marmaduke's forces at Cane Hill, Ark. On Dec. 7, 1862, he encountered and defeated, with the aid of Gen. Herron, the confederates under Hindman at Prairie Grove. He died in 1881 in Washington, D. C.
ED- BLYDENBURGH, CHARLES WARD, engineer of mines, lawyer, legislator, was born March 19, 1854, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in private schools; in 1870 he entered the Princeton college, and there graduated from the academic department in 1874. The same year he entered the Columbia college school of mines, and in 1878 graduated therefrom with the degree of engineer of mines. During 1881-82 he was county superintendent of schools in Wyoming; and in 1888 was a member of the house of representatives of the tenth legislature of Wyoming territory. In 1889 he was admitted to the bar, and the following year became city attorney of Rawlins, Wyo., and served three terms. During 1892-94 he was president of the city council; and in 1896 was chairman of the democratic state committee of Wyoming.
In 1898 he was nominated a justice of the supreme court of Wyoming.