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Springville, N.Y. He entered the navy as assistant surgeon in 1856; and in 1884 was

promoted medical director, with the relative rank of captain in the navy, and colonel in the army. He died in 1903 in Brooklyn, N. Y. Bloodgood, Freeman H., educator, lecturer, autnor, was born July 17, 1867, in Cedar Eapids, Iowa. He has been superintendent of city schools and was county superintendent of schools of Fayette county, Iowa; and city superintendent of schools of Vinton, Iowa. He is the author of a textbook entitled Civil Government and School Law. In 1899 he was president of the Iowa state teachers association. Bloodgood, Simeon De Witt, merchant, diplomat, author, wa-s born in 1799 in Utica, N.Y. He wrote The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution; a treatise On Roads; and contributed largely to the periodical press. He died July 14, 1866,

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Bloodworth, Timothy, congressman, United States senator, was bom in 1736 in North Carolina. In 1786-87 he was a representative to the continental congress. In 1789-91 he was a representative from North Carolina to the first congress. In 1795-1801 he was a United States senator; and was one of those who voted for locating the seat of government on the Potomac. He died Aug. 24, 1814, near Washington, D.C. Blooher, C. F., congressman. In 1889 he was a representative from Missouri to the fiftieth congress to fill a vacancy. Bloom, Jacob E., soldier, lawyer, founder, was born April 31, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at the Cincinnati high school; attended the Cincinnati law college; and graduated from the United States military academy. He was commandant o' cadets at the East Tennessee university. In 1876 he participated as an officer of the fourth United States artillery in the Sioux Indian compaign; and also in the Nez Perce compaign of 1877. In 1880-98 while in civil life he was a member of the bar of Ohio and New York; in 1894 founded the wageearners fraternal insurance; and in 1898 founded the patriotic league of New York. During the Spanish-American war he was assistant adjutant-general United States volunteers. Since 1901 he has held the rank of captain commissary in the United States army; and since 1906 has been stationed at Hollo, P.I.

Bloomer, Mrs. Amelia Jenks, suffragist, was born May 37, 1818, in Homer, N.Y. She was the originator of the costume called by her name. She married in 1840, and resided in Seneca Falls, N. Y., where she wrote frequently on the enfranchisement of women, and in 1849 issued the first number of the Lily, a, semi-monthly publication, devoted to temperance and woman's rights. In the winter of 1855 Mrs. Bloomer addressed the territorial legislature of Nebraska on the author,

subject of conferring the ballot on women. She took part in organizing the Iowa state suffrage association ; and was at one time its president. She died Dec. 39, 1894, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

was born 1863 he became captain in the twenty-sixth regiment Illinois infantry; and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general Bloomfield, Ira Jackson, soldier,

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of volunteers. 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 afterward attorney-general for New Jersey; fourth governor of that state in

1801-12; was appointed a brigadier-general by President Madison. In 1817-21 he was a representative from New Jersey to the fifteenth and sixteenth congresses. He died Oct. 3, 1823, in Burlington, N.J. Bloomfield, Maurice, educator, author, was born Feb. 38, 1855, in Austria. He has edited and translated several works. He is the author of Cerberus, the Dog of Hades ; and Concordance of the Vedas.

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Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara Sophia, authwas born in 1834 in Pennsylvania. She is a Philadelphia writer who has lived much abroad, and chiefly in England. She 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 or, poet,

Poems. Bloomingdale, Charles, journalist, publishauthor, was born March 16, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pn. He has been a printer and advertiser and ever since " r' 1893 a journalist of Philadelphia, Pa. For four years he wrote daily articles for the 1^ Philadelphia Press under the pen-name of Karl; and has written for Puck and Judge; and for* various other er,



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and Stageland. He is the author of Mr., Miss and Mrs.; A Failure; and other works. Bloss, Benjamin Gotham, farmer, merchant, was born June 3, 1819, in Cheshire, Mass. He was a farmer until 1850; and then a merchant for several years. In 1861 he entered the insurance business as agent and became general" manager. He died April 13, 1895, in South Orange, N.J. Bloss, William Clough, abolitionist, author, was born Jan. 19, 1795, in West Stockbridge, Mass. In 1845-47 he was a member of the New York state legislature. In 1856 he was the author of a famous political map showing the aggression of the slave power. j