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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Blodgett, Coustantine, clergyman, theolowas born Nov. 17, 1803, in Eandolph, Vt. He was pastor of the congregational church at Pawtucket, E.I. He died Dec. 29, 1879, in Pawtucket, R.I. Blodgett, Foster, soldier, statesman, was born Jan. 15, 1826, in Augusta, Ga. He became mayor of Augusta in 1859; and was re-elected in 1860. During the civil war he was captain of the Blodgett artillery from Augusta. After the- civil war he joined the repuuiican party; and was appointed postmaster of Augusta in 1865, but was removed from that office in 1868 and reinstated in 1869. In 1867 he was made president of the L'nion republican club of Augusta, and during the same year he was again chosen mayor. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1867; and in 1870 claimed to have been chosen United States senator, from Georgia; but failed to secure fiis seat. He died Nov. 13, 1877, in Atlanta, Ga, Blodgett, Isaac N., lawyer, state senator, jurist, was bom March 6, 1838, in Canaan, N.H. In 1871, 1873-74 and 1878 he was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature; and was state senator in 1879-80. In 1876 and 1889 he was a member of the constitutional convention. In 1880-98 he was an associate justice; and in 1898-1902 he was chief justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire. He died in 1905 in Franklin

gian,

Falls,

N.H.

Blodgett, John Taggard, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born May 16, 1869, in Belmont, Mass. He grraduated from Brown university; and in 1883 was admitted to the Rhode Island bar. In 1890 he was United States commissioner for the district of Rhode Island; and in 1893 was chief supervisor of elections for the same district. In 1895-1900 he was a member and chairman of the board of canvassers and registration of Providence, R.I. In 1898-1900 he served as a member of the Rhode Island state legislature. Since 1900 he has been an associate justice of the state supreme court of Rhode Island. Blodgett, Henry Williams, lawyer, state senator, jurist, was bom July 31, 1821, in Amherst, Mass. In 1845 he located at Waukegan in the practice of his profession. He was elected to the legislature of Hlinois in 1852; to the state senate in 1858; and was judge of the United States court for the northern district of Illinois in 1870-92. He was the pioneer in the building of the Chicago and

Milwaukee

railroad.

Blodgett, Mabel Louise Fuller, litterateur, author, was born April 8, 1869, in Bangor, Maine. She is the author of The Aspen Shade; In Poppy Land; Fairy Tales; At The Queen's Mercy; and The Giant's Ruby. Blodgett, Hufus, banker, United States senator, was born Oct. 9, 1834, in Dorchester, N.H. He moved to New Jersey in 1866 and engaged in the railroad business. He is president of the First national bank of Long Branch; and was a member of the New Jer-

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sey state legislature. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Cincinnati in 1880. In 1887-93 he was United States senator. Blodgett, Wells H., soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born Jan. 39, 1839, in Du Page county. 111. He served throughout the civil war; and was commissioned colonel. After the civil war he began the practice of law in Warrensburg, Mo.; and was elected to the legislature from Johnson county. In 1868-72 he was a, state senator. Since 1889 he has been general solicitor of the Wabash railroad. Bloede, Gertrude, author, .poet, was bom Aug. 10, 1845, in Dresden, Saxony. She was a poet and novelist of Brooklyn who wrote under the pseudonym of Stuart Sterne. She was the author of Angelo; Giogio and Other

Poems; Beyond the Shadow; and The Story

Two

Lives, a novel. She died in 1905 in Islana, N. Y. Bloede, Mrs. Marie, author, poet, 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 Mrch 12, 1870, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Blood, Henry Ames, poet, was bom June 7, 1838, in Temple, N.H. He was the author of How Much I Loved Thee, a drama in verse; and History of Temple, N.H. He died in Washington, D.C.

of

Long

Blood, Jared P., soldier, lawyer, was bom Jan. 18, 1844, in Whitefield, N.H.; and is a lineal descendant of Sir Isaac Newton on his maternal side. He received his education

at the Lancaster acadof New- Hampshire. He served as a

emy

union

soldier

during

the civil war, enlisting in 1864 in the first New

Hampshire heavy arcompany I; tillery, and served until the close of the civil war.

He entered

the classi-

cal course at Lombard university in 1866; graduated in 1870 with the degree of A.B'.; and subsequently receiv-

ed the degree of A.M. from the same insti-

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, grand army of the republic and other tution.

fraternal bodies. He has also to law literature extensive

contributed

and various

newspapers and magazines. Bloodgood, Delavan, medical director. United States navy, was bom Aug. 20, 1831, in