Blizzard, T. H – Bloomingdale, Lyman G
Blizzard, T. H
educator, lawyer, was born Sept. 23, 1871, in Russell county, Va. For several years he was professor in Wood's academy; was admitted to the bar in 1894, and practices his profession in Flat Rock, Va.
Bloch, Joseph C
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 24, 1856, in Hungary.
He took a complete course in the State University of Iowa, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1880. He was elected to the Ohio house of representatives in 1891 as a republican. He is now judge of the Cuyahoga county court of insolvency of Cleveland, Ohio.
Blodget, Lorin
statistician, author, was born May 25, 1823, near Jamestown, N. Y. He is an eminent statistician of Philadelphia who has published over 150 volumes, mainly reports upon finance, revenue, and industrial progress. He is the author of The Climatology of the United States; and Commercial and Financial Resources of the United States.
Blodget, Samuel
inventor, was born April 11, 1724, in Woburn, Mass. He commenced the manufacture of duck. In 1793 he removed to New Hampshire, and began the construction of the canal which bears his name around Amoskeag Falls.
He died Sept. 1, 1807, in Haverhill, Mass.
Blodgett, Delos Abiel
capitalist, was born March 3, 1825, in New York.
He is the owner of large timber lands in Michigan, Washington, Oregon and most of the gulf states, and is largely interested in real estate in Grand Rapids and Chicago.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks
suffragist, journalist, author, was born May 27, 1818, in Homer, N. Y. She married in 1840, and resided in Seneca Falls, N. Y., where she wrote frequently on the enfranchisement of women, and on Jan. 1, 1849, issued the first number of The Lily, a semi-monthly publication, devoted to temperance and woman's rights, which attained a circulation of 4,000. In the winter of 1855 Mrs. Bloomer addressed the territorial legislature of Nebraska on the subject of conferring the ballot on women.
She took part in organizing the Iowa state suffrage association, and was at one time its president, but in later years withdrew entirely from public life.
Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara Sophia
author, poet, was born in 1824 in Pennsylvania. She is a Philadelphia writer who has lived much abroad, and chiefly in England, and is the author of Miscellaneous Poems; On Dangerous Ground, a romance of American Society; Sensible Etiquette; Gondaline's Lesson and Other Poems; Slander and Gossip; and The Warden's Tale and Other Poems.
Bloomfield, Joseph
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in Woodbridge, N. J. He studied law until 1775, when he became an active friend of the revolution. He was afterwards attorney-general for New Jersey; governor of that state from 1801 to 1812; was appointed a brigadier-general by President Madison, and was a representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1817 to 1821. He died Oct. 3, 1823, in Burlington, N. J.
Bloomingdale, Joseph B
merchant, was born Dec. 22, 1842, in New York city. For a while he was engaged in the dry goods business in New York city, and in 1860 went to California.
After working at various occupations in Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, he returned east and entered into business in New York city with his father and brother. Beginning in 1872 with three employes, they now employ nearly fifteen hundred workmen; and he is recognized as one of the leading merchants of New York city. He is prominent in the Masonic fraternity and is noted for his many acts of benevolence and charity.
Bloomingdale, Lyman G
soldier, merchant, was born Feb. 11, 1841, in New York. In 1872 he aided in organizing the firm of Bloomingdale Brothers of New York city, to transact a dry goods and general trade, and is senior partner of the firm.