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eastward, he named red island, from the color of the clay on parts of the coast. The island had, however, been previously discovered by English navigators. He discovered Block island, which bears his name. He sailed as far north as Nahant. Bloch, Joseph C, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Oct. 24, 1856, in Hungary. He was educated in the public and private ford.

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William Dwight Porter, clergyman,

lecturer, author, was born in 1856 in Constantinople, Italy. He is an episcopal clergyman of Boston, and founded the society of Christian Socialists in that city. In 1899 he

founded and was elected president of the national social reform union, with headquarters in Chicago, 111. He is the author of A Handbook of Socialism; The Social Faith of the Catholic Church; and edited The Encyclopsedia of Social Reform. Bliss, William Julian Albert, educator, author, was born in 1867 in Washington, D.C. He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, Md. He is a part author of A Manual of Experiments in Phys-

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soon attained success the profession of the law in Cleveland, Ohio; and is a member of the leading law and in

William Root, merchant, author,

was born Oct. 20, 1825, in Connecticut. He was author of Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meetine-House The Old Colony Town and Other Sketches; Colonial Times on Buzzard's Bay; Quaint Nantucket; and Paradise in the Pacific. He died in 1906 in New York

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William Wallace Smith, soldier, was August, 1815, in Whitehall, N.Y. During the Mexican war he was chief of staff to General Taylor; and took an active part in the engagements of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista. In apBliss, in

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preciation of his conduct as a soldier, the state of New York presented him with a gold medal; and for gallant service he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. In 1849-50 he was private secretary to President Taylor, whose youngest daughter he married. He died Aug. 5, 1853, in East Pascagoula, Miss. Bliss, Zenos Randall, soldier, was born April 17, 1835, in Johnston, R.I. During the last year of the civil war Colonel Bliss commanded a brigade in Grant's Virginia campaign. He became a brigadier-general in 1895; and in 1897 he was advanced to major-general and retired after more than forty years of continuous and faithful service. He died Jan; 2, 1900, in Washington, D.C. Blitz, Antonio, magician, author, was bom June 31, 1810, in England. At the age of thirteen years he began his career in Hamburg, Germany. In 1834 he came to the United States. His experiences have been related in his work entitled Fifty Years in the Made Circle. He died Jan. 28, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. Block, Adriaen, navigator. Within three years after the discovery of Hudson river in 1610, he visited Manhattan bay, making a successful voyage and bringing back to Amsterdam a cargo of rich furs and two sons of native sachems. First of all Europeans, he dared the perilous passage of Hell Gate; and sailing eastward through Long Island sound discovered the River of Red Hills and the Freshwater, known to us respectively as the Housatonic and the Connecticut. The latter he explored as far as the site of Hart-

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In 1892-93 and in 189697 he was a member of the Ohio house of representatives as a republican; and served on several import^int committees. In 1897-1903 he was judge of the Cuyahoga county court of insolvency at Cleveland, Ohio; and has filled numerous other public offices of trust and honor. scientific societies.

Block, Louis James, educator, author, poet, in 1851 in Austria. Since 1895 he has been principal of the John Marshall high school of Chicago, 111. He is the author of

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Dramatic Sketches and Poems; The New World and Other Verse; Capriccios; Many Moods and Many Minds; and The World's Triumph. Block, Rudolph, journalist, author, was born Dec. 6, 1870, in New York City. Since 1888 he has been a journalist of New York City. He is the author of Children of Men.

Blodget, Lorin, statistician, author, was May 25, 1823, near Jamestown, N.Y. He was an eminent statistician of Philadelphia who published over one hundred and fifty volumes, mainly reports upon finance, revenue and industrial progress. The industrial census was taken four times by him. He was the author of The Climatology of the United States; and Commercial and Financial Resources of the United States. He died March 24, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pa.

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Blodget, Samuel, manufacturer, inventor, bom 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 Palls. He died Sept. 1, 1807, in Haverhill, Mass.

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Blodgett, Benjamin Colman, educator, mucomposer, was born March 12, 1838, in Boston, Mass. In 1878-1903 he was professor of music in Smith college; and since 1905 has been director of music in the Leland Stanford university of California. He is the composer of The Prodigal Son; and other musical pieces. sician,