Bledsoe, Albert Taylor – Bliss, William Root
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 9, 1809, in Frankfort, Ky. He was a southern clergyman who left the episcopal for the methodist church, and wrote extensively on metaphysics and mathematics. was the author of Liberty and Slavery; Examination of Edwards on the Will; Philosophy of Mathematics; Is Davis a Traitor? or was Secession a Constitutional Right previous to the War of 1861? and Theodicy. He died Dec. 8, 1877, in Alexandria, Va.
Bledsoe, Jesse
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born April 6, 1776, in Culpeper county, Va. He was at one time a distinguished advocate and jurist of Kentucky. He was a senator in congress from that state from 1813 to 1815; was professor of law in the University of Transylvania, and chief justice of the supreme court of Kentucky. He died June 30, 1837, in Nacogdoches, Tex.
Bleecker, Ann Eliza
poet, was born in October, 1752, in New York city.
Some years after her death her stories and poems were collected and published under the title of Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker in Prose and Verse, with a memoir by her daughter, Margaretta V. Faugeres. She died Nov. 23, 1783, in Tomhannock, N. Y.
Bleecker, Anthony
author, was born in October, 1770, in New York city.
He was graduated at Columbia in 1791 and studied law, but never was a successful practitioner on account of his unconquerable diffidence. His natural tastes led him to the pursuit of letters, and for thirty years he was a prolific contributor of both prose and verse to the periodical literature of New York and Philadelphia.
The Narrative of the Brig Commerce is one of his best-known works. He was one of the founders of the New York Historical society. He died March 13, 1827, in New York city.
Bleecker, Hermanus
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1779, in Albany, N. Y. He was a member of congress from New York from 1811 to 1813, and was appointed, in 1839, charge d'affaires at The Hague. He died July 19, 1849, in Albany, N. Y.
Bleistein, George
journalist, was born Dec. 6, 1861, in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1885 he was elected president and treasurer of the Courier company, which is said to have the largest and best equipped printing and lithographing establishment in the world.
Blewett, Benjamin Turner
educator, college president, was born Sept. 17, 1820, in Bowling Green, Ky. He graduated from the Georgetown college, and has been president of the Bethel college, Kentucky; and president of the Augusta college, Kentucky. This eminent educator is now connected with the St.
Louis seminary of Jennings, Mo.
Blish, George William
elocutionist, was born March 1, 1837, in Rome, Ill. He is the founder of the Blish school of elocution, of Boston, Mass., and is one of the original organizers of Royal Ar- He is a fine interpreter of dramatic, humorous and dialect sketches. canum.
Bliss, Aaron T
soldier, lumber merchant, congressman, was born May 22, 1837, in Peterborough, N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the tenth New York cavalry, and was in the service three years and five months, six months of which time he was confined in the prisons of Andersonville, Charleston, Macon and Columbia; he made his escape from Columbia, and after eighteen nights of travel through rebel territory reached the union lines; he rose while in the service from private to captain. Since 1866 he has resided in Saginaw, Mich., where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber. He has held many positions of public trust in his own county, having been a supervisor, alderman, president of the school board for eleven consecutive years, and president of the Soldiers' and Sailors' association of northern Michigan. In 1882 he was elected a member of the state senate. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Bliss, Archibald M
merchant, railroad president, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1837, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He received an academic education and was for many years engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was for four years an alderman, from 1864, and president of the board in 1867, and was defeated for mayor in the latter year. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention in 1864, Chicago convention of 1868, and the Cincinnati convention of 1872, and in 1869 and 1870 was commissioner of public works for Brooklyn. He was a director in several banks, vicepresident and director in the New York and Long Island Bridge company, and president of the Bushwick Railroad company. In 1874 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortyfourth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Bliss, Cornelius Newton
merchant, was born Jan. 26, 1833, in Fall River, Mass. He was a member of the Pan-American conference; was president of the Protective Tariff league; was chairman of the republican state committees New York of 1887 and 1888; was treasurer of the national republican committees in 1892 and 1896; declined to be a candidate for the nomination for governor of his state in 1885, and refused to have his name presented to the convention for that position in 1891. He was chairman of the business men's committee which tried to nominate President Arthur for a second term in 1884, and was chairman of the committee of thirty in 1893. He was appointed secretary of the interior March 5, 1897, and was confirmed by the senate March 5, 1897.
Bliss, Daniel
missionary, author, was born June 17, 1823, in Georgia, Vt.
He is a congregational missionary, and president of the Protestant college at Beyrout since 1864. He is the author of Mental Philosophy; and Natural Philosophy (in Arabic).
Bliss, Don Alfonso
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 14, 1854, in Artesia, Miss.
He has attained success in the profession of law at Sherman, Tex.; has been alderman of his city, and is now judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Texas.
Bliss, Edwin Munsell
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1848, in Turkey. He is a graduate of the Amherst college and Yale divinity school.
He is the editor of the New York Independent, and the author of Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities; and Concise History of Missions.
Bliss, Eliphalet Williams
manufacturer, was born April 12, 1836, in Fly Creek, N. Y. The corporation of the E.
W. Bliss Co. now employs 600 men. The plant comprises extensive buildings and machine shops for the manufacture of tools, presses, dies, and patented articles of various kinds.
Bliss, George
state senator, was born Nov. 16, 1793, in Springfield, Mass.
In 1827 he was elected to the lower branch of the legislature. He served for three successive terms, and also in 1853, when he was elected speaker. In 1835 he was elected president of the state senate. His attention was subsequently occupied with the completion of the Western railroad between Worcester and Albany, and prior to 1846 he was president of the road. He died April 19, 1873, in Springfield, Mass.
Bliss, George
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1813, in Jericho, Vt. In 1850 he was appointed president judge of the eighth judicial district of Ohio, serving one year, until the state constitution was changed. In 1852 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-third congress, and in 1862 was elected to the thirty-eighth congress.
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.