Bloss, John M – Blye, Birdice
Bloss, John M
soldier, educator, was born Jan. 21, 1839, in Washington county, Ind. He was a private in the twenty-seventh regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, company F. He has been an active member in county institutes, and has been president of the State Teachers' association.
Blot, Pierre
instructor, author, was born in 1818 in France. He was a noted cooking instructor of New York city, and the author of What to Eat and How to Cook It; Lectures on Cookery; and Handbook of Practical Cookery. He died Aug. 26, 1874, in Jersey City, N. J.
Blount, Ainsworth Emery
agriculturist, horticulturist, author, was born Feb. 6, 1831, near Chattanooga, Tenn.
During 1849-59 he was in the schools of New Hampshire and graduated from Dartmouth college in July, 1859. From that date to the breaking out of the civil war, he was president of the Cleveland Female college, Tenn. He then enlisted and was captain of a company in the first East Tennessee cavalry for over three years; and in 1865 again assumed the presidency of the Cleveland Female college until 1878. He then became professor of agriculture and horticulture in the Colorado Agricultural college, remained there until 1890, and has since occupied the same position in the New Mexico Agricultural college. He is the author of an important work on Agriculture and Horticulture for the Farmer. He has given a special scientific investigation to the improvement of the cereals, as well as all agricultural and horticultural products, soils, and irrigation.
Blount, I. T
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 22, 1846, in Ripley, Miss. He graduated from the Law School University of Mississippi, and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Water Valley, Miss., where he has been mayor and also held various other positions of trust. He has served with distinction as a member of the Mississippi state legislature, and was a Cleveland elector in 1893.
Blount, James H
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1837, in Clinton, Ga. He received a classical education, graduating from the University of Georgia in 1857; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859, engaged in practice and settled in Macon, Ga. He was a member from Georgia to the forty-third, fortyfourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a democrat.
Blount, Thomas
soldier, congressman, was born in 1760 in Edgecombe, N. C. He was a general of militia, and a representative from his native state in the twelfth congress. He died Feb. 7, 1812, in Washington, D. C.
Blount, William
United States senator, governor, was born in 1744 in North Carolina. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1782, 1783, 1786 and 1787, from North Carolina, and was governor of the territory south of the Ohio, having been appointed to that office in 1790. In 1796 he was chosen president of the convention of Tennessee, and was elected the same year, by that state, to a seat in the United States senate. While his impeachment trial was in progress in the United States senate he was elected a member of the state senate and made president thereof. He died March 10, 1810, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Blount, William G
congressman, was a representative in congress, from Tennessee, from 1815 to 1819. He died May 21, 1827.
Blount, Willie
legislator, governor, was born in 1767 in North Carolina. He was secretary to his brother William while territorial governor of Ohio. He was a member of the Tennessee legislature; governor from 1809 to 1815, and a member of the state constitutional convention in 1834. He died Sept. 10, 1835, in Clarksville, Tenn.
Blow, Henry T
business man, state senator, congressman, was born July 15, 1817, in Southampton county, Va. He removed to Missouri in 1830; graduated at St. Louis university; devoted himself to the drug and lead business, and served four years in the state senate. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He died Sept. 11, 1875, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Blowers, Sampson Salter
lawyer, jurist, was born March 22, 1742, in Boston, Mass. In 1785 he was appointed attorney-general and speaker of the house of assembly; and in 1797 chief justice of the supreme court, having had for some years a seat in the council. In 1801, he became presiding judge, which office he resigned in 1833. He died Oct. 25, 1842, in Halifax, N. S.
Bloxam, Henry
physician, lawyer, was born March 17, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received his degree of medicine from the Kentucky school of medicine and attained success as a physician. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar, and also attained success in that profession. He was a representative in the county board for several terms; prominent in public affairs, and died Dec. 23, 1889, in Mount Auburn, Ill.
Bloxham, William D
legislator, governor, was born July 9, 1835, in Leon county, Fla. In 1860 he was elected a member of the Florida state legislature; was presidential elector in 1868, and in 1870 was elected lieutenant-governor. In 1876 he was a member of the state executive committee; was appointed secretary of state in 1880 for a term of four years; and during 1886-90 was United States surveyor-general to Florida. During 1890-96 he was state comptroller. In 1896 he was elected governor of Florida for a second term of four years.
Blue, Richard Whiting
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1841, in Wood county, Va. He enlisted in the third West Virginia volunteer infantry, and served first as a private and later as lieutenant in said regiment. He is a lawyer by profession and was in active practice when elected to congress.
He has been probate judge of his county two terms, county attorney two terms, and a state senator of Kansas two terms, and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Blunt, Edmond March
author, was born June 20, 1770, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a bookseller of Newbury-- port whose chief work, The American Coast Pilot (1796), is still in use. He died Jan. 2, 1862, in Sing Sing, N. Y.
Blunt, Edmund
hydrographer, inventor, was born Nov. 23, 1799, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1855-56 he furnished the points to determine the exterior line of New York harbor. While he was on the coast survey his attention was directed to the inferiority of the lights in the American lighthouses, and he was the proposer and advocate of the introduction of Fresnel's system of signallights. He also invented the dividingengine. He died Sept. 2, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Blunt, George William
hydrographer, author, was born March 11, 1802, in Newburyport, Mass. He was the author of Atlantic Memoir; Sheet Anchor; Harbor Laws of New York; and Plan to Avoid the Center of Violent Gales. He died April 19, 1878, in New York city.
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.
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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.
Blye, Birdice
pianist, was born in Iowa. When an infant she removed to Indiana, and her home has been principally in New York city. When ten years of age she played in concerts extensively in London and the chief continental cities; frequently playing before the royal families of England and Germany. She studied with the greatest of masters, and lastly with Rubinstein, who introduced her to the leading musicians of Germany as the coming great American pianist. She is thoroughly educated and speaks several languages fluently. She has an extensive repertoire; and her playing is noted for the grace and poetry of her interpretations, beauty of tone, and perfection of finish.