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 6o BLODGETT. BLODGETT. of Athens, Greece, and Eliza (Blunt) Pan- galo, daughter of the English consul at Salonica. Of this union were two chil- dren : Zoe Pangalo, and Enid Bouterweck Bliss. Mr. Bliss has been master workman of the Knights of Labor Assembly in Lee, and represented them at the Cincinnati convention of the Union Labor party, Feb- ruary 22, 1887. In 1887 he was nominated lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts by the Labor party, but immediately resigned. He was president of the Ministers' Eco- nomic Society, Boston ; was the first chair- man, and is now secretary, of the Society of Christian Socialists of Boston, and editor of the "Dawn," a paper devoted to their interests. In early life Mr. Bliss was devoted to the study of literature, poetry, and philosophy, leading his class in college in that depart- ment. He became interested in social problems when settled as a minister in the manufac- turing town of South Natick in 1885, and has since followed this line of thought and work. He has written frequently for the " Andover Review," the " Christian Union," etc., and has lectured before economic and religious bodies upon what he deems the vital questions of the hour. BLODGETT, CALEB, son of Caleb and Charlotte (Piper) Blodgett, was born in Dorchester, Grafton county, N. H., June 3, 1S32. His early education was obtained in the common schools and the academy in Ca- naan, N. H, to which place his parents removed in 1834. He fitted for college mainly at Kimball Union Academy, Meri- den, N. H., under Dr. Cyrus S. Richards. He entered Dartmouth College in 1852, and was graduated in 1S56. For two years thereafter he was engaged in teach- ing in the high school in Leominster, Mass. He read law in the office of Bacon & Aldrich, in Worcester, and was ad- mitted to the bar in that city in February, 1S60. His first connection in business was in the practice of law at Hopkinton, as a partner of Henry L. Parker, a college class-mate. Later he removed to Boston, and was associated with Halsey J. Board- man in the same profession, from Decem- ber, i860, to January 16, 1882, when he was appointed by Governor Long an asso- ciate justice of the superior court, which position he now holds. He was married at Canaan, N. H., December 14, 1865, to Roxie B., daughter of Jesse and Emily A. (Green) Martin, and has one child : Charles M. Blodgett. He has one brother, Isaac N. Blodgett, who is one of the justices of the supreme judicial court of New Hampshire. He was made president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Dartmouth College in 1S86, and in June, 1S89, received from his alma mater the honorary degree of LL. 1 >. Not the least of the honors, however, that have crowned his life is the estimation in which he is held by those who have prac- ticed before his court, and have received at his hands the impartial distribution of justice which should ever characterize an upright judge. BLODGETT, PERCIVAL, son of N. French and Dolly A. Blodgett, was born in Orange, Franklin county, July 18, 1841. He attended the common schools of that town until twelve years old, then only 111 winter until fifteen. Attended the Athol high school one term and Phillips Academy, Andover, two years. When he was sixteen years of age he taught his first school. He followed teaching until he entered business life at Templeton, March, 1865, when he formed a partnership with A. S. Dudley, under the firm name of Dudley & Blodgett, and carried on the business of a general country store for five years. The partnership was then dissolved, and Mr. Blodgett continued the business on his own account. He has done a large and lucra- tive business, and has, besides his employ- ment in trade, done something in convey- ancing, settling estates, etc. Mr. Blodgett was married in Orange, May 1, 1867, to Georgia A. Worrick, daugh- ter of Philbrook and Dorothy Worrick. Mis. Blodgett died January 17, 1879, leav- ing one daughter, Grace E. Blodgett, born April 28, 1870. Mr. Blodgett's second marriage was with S. Isabelle Chamberlain of Templeton. He is a Republican, and chairman of the Republican town committee ; postmaster sixteen years, until the incoming of the Cleveland administration. For twenty con- tinuous years he has been member of the school board, for thirteen years town treas- urer, and seven years selectman and chair- man of the board. His church con- nections are with the Trinitarian parish, of which he is an active working mem- ber. He is trustee of the Boynton free public library, and president of the board. He was representative to the General Court in [8S9, from the second Worcester district.