Who's who in Massachusetts, 1940-41; biographical history of every person in the commonwealth, V. I, pt 1 1940-1941, Part 28

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yBLAKESLEE, Asa D., Insurance agent; b. Spring- field, July 25, 1895; s. Asa D. Blakeslee and Fan- nie Il. (Waldman) B .; ed. pub. sch .; m. Grace M. Costello of Boston, June 12, 1917; 1 son-Robert D. Continuously in the insurance bus., 1910 -; entered firm of William A. Hamilton Co., 1925; dir. Dewick and Flanders, Inc., 1934 -; dir. Bos- ton Penny Sav. Bk. Episcopalian. Republican. Oflice: 148 State St., Boston, Home: 14 Arapahoe Road, West Newton.


BLAKESLEE, George Hubbard, professor of history and international relations; b. Geneseo, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1871; s. Franels Durbin Blakeslee and Augusta Mirenda (Hubbard) B .; ed. A.B., Wesleyan Univ., Conn., 1893, L. H.D., 1923; A.M., Harvard, 1900, Ph. D., 1903; univs. Berlin, Leipzig, and Oxford, 1901-03; 1.1I.D., Williams Coll., 1930; LL.D., Brown Univ., 1936; m. Edna Frances Day, of Worcester, Mar. 30, 1910; children-George Day, Frances llubbard, Edith Augusta. Instr., hist., Clark Univ., 1903, now prot. hist. and internat. rela- tions; ed., Jour. of Internat. Relations, until 1921; leader of Round Table, Inst. of Politics, Williams- town, 1922, 1923, 1928, 1930, gen. conf., 1925, 1926, 1929, 1931; lecturer, Naval War Coll., 1922- 39, Army War Coll., 1923-29, 1932; Bennett lecturer Wesleyan Univ., Conn., 1924, Weeks visiting prof. govt., 1931-32; lecturer on Far Eastern hist., Har- vard, 1926, 1928, 1929; Schouler lecturer, Johns llopkins, 1927; prof. diplomacy and Internat. re- lations, Fletcher Sch. of Law and Diplomacy, 1933- 39; visiting Carnegie prof. of internat. relations, to univs. in New Zealand, Australia, and Japan, 1927; mem. exec. com., Inst. of Pacific Relations, Ilonolulu, 1925, exec. com. Am. group, Honolulu Conf., 1927, Kyoto Conf., 1929; tech. adviser, Am. delegation, Conf. on Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921; officer in Div. of Far East- ern Affairs, Dept. of State, Nov. 1931-Feb. 1932; Spl. asst., Am. Legation, Pelping, Chilna, 1932; lecturer at the summer schs. of Western Reserve Unlv. and Northwestern Univ., 1935, Unlv. of Hawail, 1937; mem, Ed. Adv. Bd. Foreign Affairs; pres. bd. trs., World Peace Foundation; chin. Worcester br., For. Policy Assn .; mem. Am. Antiq.


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Soc. (Council), Council on Foreign Relations, Am. Soc. Internat. Law, Am. Hist. Assn., Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Tatnuck Country, Cosmos (Wash- ington). Editor: China and the Far East; Japan and Japanese-American Relations; Recent Devel- opments in China; Latin-America, Problems and Lessons of the War; Mexico and the Caribbean. Author: The Recent Foreign Policy of the U.S., 1925; The Pacific Area-An International Survey, 1929; Confliets of Policy in the Far East, 1934. Travel: Europe, Siberia, China, Jap., P.I., So. Am. Address: 21 Downing St., Worcester.


BLANCHARD, Arthur (Alphonzo), professor of chemistry; b. Boston May 4, 1876; s. Adolphus Joseph Blanchard and Louise Bryant (Rand) B .; ed. Newton (Mass.) high sch .; S.B, M.I.T., 1898; Ph. D., Univ. Leipsic, 1902; m. Eugenia M. Lord of Worcester, Mass., 1905; children-Mrs. Shirley Hammond, Mrs. Helen Cowles, Malcolm Adolphus, Joseph. Asst., M.I.T., 1898-1900; instr., N.H. Coll., 1902-03; instr., asst. prof., asso. prof. and prof. chem., M.I.T., 1903 -. Lecturer, Harvard, 1929-30; pvt. Mass. State Guard; served during Boston police strike; mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sciences, Am. Chem. Soc., N.E. Assn. Chem. Teachers. Clubs: Appalachian Mt., Rexhame Country, Marsh- field Country. Author: 4 text books on chem .; many sci. and ednl, papers. Desc. Thomas Blanch- ard, Charlestown, 1639. Unitarian. Republican. Office: Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Home: 25 Evans Rd., Brookline. Summer res .: Rexhame, Marshfield.


BLANCHARD, Edward Blekford, clergyman (re- tired); b. Wentworth, N.If., Apr. 14, 1859; s. Rev. Silas M. Blanchard and Eleanor J. (Bickford) B .; ed. Phillips Acad., Andover, 1885; Dartmouth Coll., 1889; Andover Som., 1892; m. Wilhemina I. Rob- bins, Aug. 21, 1889; children-Marion I., Charlotte, Helen, Lncile, Alice L. Minister, Cong. Ch., Thorn- dike, 1893-95, Brookfield, 1895-1914, East Douglas, 1914-16, Sherborn, 1916-19; Agt. N.E. Tel. & Tel. Co., Mar. 1910 -; Town Clk. (Barre) ; 1914 -; mem. Masons (master, Mt. Keon Lodge, Barre, 1926; chaplain 20 yrs.), O.E.S. (patron, Cradle Rock chapt. 23 and 24). Congregationalist. Republi- can. Office and home: Barre. Summer res .: Mas- sapoag Lake (P.O. Dunstable).


YBLANCHARD, Fred Milliken, wool broker; b. Chel- sea, May 8, 1877: s. Eliphalet Ripley Blanchard and Mary Mehitable (Milliken) B .; ed. Chelsea high seh .; m. Lillian May Smith of Everett, 1899. In wool bus., 1893 -; wool broker, as Fred M. Blanchard, 1905-30, pres., treas., and dir. Fred M. Blanchard, Inc., wool brokers, 1930 -; past pres. Bd. Aldermen, Newton; mem. Newtonville Im- provement Assn .; I minute speaker, World War; mem. Masons (past master), K.T. (past comdr.), Newton Royal Arch Chapter of Cryptic Council R. & S.M. Congregationalist (moderator, Cent. Congl. Ch., Newtonville). Republican. Office: 222 Summer St., Boston. Home: 162 Mt. Vernon St., Newtonville.


Y BLANCHARD, Harold Hooper, professor of English literature; b. Sherborn, Jan. 11, 1891; s. Joseph Ilooper Blanchard and Julia Ann (Coolidge) B .; ed. So. high sch., Worcester; A.B., Clark Coll., 1916; A.M., Ph. D., Harvard, 1921; m. Roberta New- ton Ray of Norfolk, Va., Mar. 29, 1938. Held Frederick Sheldon traveling fellowship from llar- vard, Paris, 1921-22; instr. Eng. Princeton, 1922- 25; prof. Eng., Coll. of Wooster, 1925-27; asst. prof., Tufts Coll., 1927-31, prof. Eng. literature, 1931 -; head Dept. of English 1939 -; mem. Modern Lang. Assn. Am., Am. Assn. Univ. Profs., Mediaeval Acad. of Am. Protestant. Office: Tufts College, Medford. Home: 32 Calumet Rd., Winchester.


BLANCHARD, Maurice Alvah, assistant advertising manager; b. Stockton Springs, Me., July 26, 1887; s. James Alvah Blanchard and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) B .; ed. grad., Mt. Vernon (N.Y.) high sch .; B.S., Syracuse Univ., 1909; m. Edna A. Stone of Pelham, N.Y., June 1, 1910; children-James Al- vah, II, Willard Griffin. Treas. and gen. mgr., Chem. Mfg. Corp., N.Y. City, 1909-26; Condé Nast Publications, 1926-28; asst. Eastern adv. mgr., Chr. Sci. Monitor, 1929-30, Western adv. mgr.,


1930-34, mgr. nat, adv., 1934-39, asst. adv. mgr., 1939 -; mem. Phi Kappa Psi, Soc. Col. Wars, Financial Advertisers Assn. Club: Advertising of Boston. Dir. desc. Eller Brewster of Mayflower; ancestors in Colonial, Indian, and Revolutionary Wars. Christian Scientist (First Reader, First Ch. of Christ Scientist, New Rochelle, N.Y., 1920- 23). Republican. Office: The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Norway St., Boston. Home: 55 Colbert Rd., West Newton.


BLANCHARD, Ralph Harrub, economist; b. Plymp- ton, Dec. 3, 1890: s. Thomas Willlams Blanchard and Clara (Harrub) B .; ed. Middleborough high sch .; A.B., Dartmouth Coll., 1911, A.M., 1912; Ph.D., Univ. Pa., 1916; unmarried. Asst. In economics, Dartmouth Coll., 1911-12; Harrison fellow in Eco- nomics, Univ. Pa., 1912-13, asst. In Insurance, 1913- 1915, instr., 1915-17; instr. in insurance, Columbia, 1917-20, asst. prof., 1920-23, asso. prof., 1923-27, prof., 1927 -; consultant on insurance to various pub. and pyt. bodies; 1st It., later capt. U.S.A., May 1918-June 1919; fellow Casualty Actuarial Soc., Ins. Inst. Am .; mem. Ins. Soc. N.Y., Am. Econ. Assn., Am. Statls. Assn. Clubs: Century, Men's Faculty (N.Y.), Cosmos ( Washington). Au- thor: Liability and Compensation Insurance, 1917; Workmen's Compensation in the U.S., 1926; many articles and revs. on ins. subjs. Editor: McGraw- IJill Insurance Series. Travel: U.S., Can., Eu- rope, Far East. Office: 561 W. 116 St., N.Y. Clty. Home: 302 W 12 St., N.Y. City. Summer res .: Plympton.


SBLANCHARD, Wallace, treasurer; b. Melrose, Mass., Mar. 18, 1892; s. Denman Blanchard and Lucy S. (Nutting) B .; ed. Manlius (N.Y.) sch. Phillips An- dover Acad. Ph.B., Yale, 1914; M.I.T .; m. Dorothy Parker of Winchester, Mass., Sept. 5, 1917; children -Parker Nutting, Wallace, Jr., Charles Went- worth. With Stone & Webster, 1915-16; elec. (n- gring. dept. Boston Elevated Ry., 1916-17; pres., dir., The Blanchard Co., investments, 1918-29; now treas. dir., Stahleker Steel Corpn .; tr. Securi- tics Assos .; enlisted May, 1918, as pvt., 1st class, Inf .; transferred to Coast Art. Officers Tr. Sch., Fort Monroe, Va. grad., commd. 2nd It., Coast Art., O.R.C., Dec. 1918; mem. Alpha Sigma Phi, Am. Legion. Clubs: Yale (Boston), Winchester Boat. Unitarian. Republican. Office: 66 Binney St., Cambridge. Home: 5 Ravenscroft Rd., Winchester.


BLANCHARD, Webster Sanderson, business execu- tive; b. Acton, Aug. 7, 1894; s. Arthur Fred Blan- chard and Charlotte Tuttle (Sanderson) B .; ed. Phillips Andover Acad .; A.B., Harvard, 1917; m. Hazel JJ. Gage of Augusta, Me., June 3, 1919. Connected with lumber and allied industries, 1919 -; pres. Howe Lumber Co. (Mariboro), Wood- ward Lumber Co. (Brattleboro, Vt.); dir. N.E. Brick Co., Boston; mem. finance bd., Town of Ac- ton; tr. Emerson Hosp., Concord; attached to Royal Engrs., 1917, U.S. Navy, 1918; mem. Am. Legion, Masons, Shrine. Club: Harvard (Boston ). Travel: Europe, Cent. and So. Am. Congregation- alist. Republican. Office: 37 Florence St., Marl- boro. Home: Windsor Av., West Acton. Sunumer res .: Centre Rd., Bradford, N.H.


BLANCHARD, William, awning and shade manufac- turer; b. Bay City, Mich., Jan. 1, 1876; s. Prudent Blanchard and Rosalie (La Belle) B .; ed. pub. schs. in Vt .; m. Nellie Mackinnon, Nov. 11, 1897; children-Leon Allen, Ethel (Mrs. James E. Worthley), Annie Olympia (Mrs. Frank 11. Mead- er, Jr.). Engaged in mfg. awnings and shades, propr. Win. Blanchard Co., Wakefield; seleetman, Town of Wakefield, 1928-32, 1936-37; pres. and lir. Wakefield Chamber of Commerce, Wakefield Y.M.C.A .; mem. Nat. Awning and Tent Mfrs. Assn., N.E. Awning and Tent Mfrs. Assn., Ma- sons, K.P., Elks. Club: Wakefield. Congrega- tionalist. Republican. Office: 534 Main St.,


Wakefield. Home: 43 Pitman Av., Greenwood. BLANEY, Dwight, artist; b. Brookline, Jan. 24, 1865; s. llenry Blaney and Mary F. (Wood) B. Ex- hibited at Carnegie Inst., Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery, Cincinnati Museum; mem. Bos- ton Soc. Water Color Painters, Copley Soc. of Boston, Guild of Boston Artists. Clubs: Of Odd


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Volumes, Tavern. Home: 82 Mt. Vernon St., Bos- ton.


BLANK, Frederick Charles, engraver; b. Rockville. Conn., May 10, 1866; s. Frederick Blank and Ma- rie Elise (Berr) B .; ed. Roekville (Conn.) higli sch .; private sehs .; m. Jean Cony of Augusta, Me., Jan. 16, 1888; 1 dan .- Mrs. Ida Frazee. Studied engraving with Fred Leigh, Hartford, Conn .; free lanee engraver, 1881-86; watch case engraver, 1886-88; desigfiner engraver, John Robbins Mfg. Co., Boston, 1889-1906; head engraver, J. W. Tratt, 1906-09, Gillette Safety Razor Co., 1909-31; de- signer and engraver, bookplates, 1917 -; mem. Am. Soe. Bookplate Colleetors & Designers, Soe. Medallists, Wachusett Philatelie Soc. Awards: gold medal, Panama-Pacific Expn., 1915; Book- plate Assn. Internat., Los Angeles, 1929, 1932. Non-sectarian. Republican. Otlice and home: 128 West St., Leominster.


BLANK, Irvin Inas, research fellow in dermatology; b. Mt. Carmel, Ill., Feb. 20, 1902; s. Solomon Blank and Byrde (Haas) B .; ed. Mt. Carmel (Ill.) high seh .; Ch.l., Univ. Cineinnati, 1921, M.Sc., 1927, Ph. D., 1928; m. Anna D. Finesinger of Balti- more, 1936; children-Joan, Barbara. Did indns- trial research in leather industry, 3 yrs .; dir. bae- teriol, research, research lab. of Tanners' Council, Univ. Cincinnati, 3 yrs .; research fellow in bot- any, Harvard, 1 yr., in dermatology, Harvard Med. Seh., 3 yrs .; mem. A.A.A.S., Soe. Investiga- tive Dermatology, Sigma Tau Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi. Author: papers on bacteriology of leather manufacture, ultra-violet irradiation of carbohydrates, action of soap on the skin. Jew- ish. Office: Harvard Medical School, Boston. Ilome: 53 Cushing Av., Belmont.


VBLASSBERG, Samuel, lawyer; b. Turners Falls, Dec. 22, 1903; s. Joseph Blassberg and Anna B .; ed. Turners Falls high sch .; student pre-law, Brown Unlv., 1922-24; LI .. B., Boston Univ. Sch. Law, 1927; m. Jean Cohn of Northampton, July 10, 1938. Admitted to Mass. bar, 1927; engaged in gen. practice of law Greenfield, 1927 -; admitted to practice before the Federal Courts, 1930; spl. justice of Dist. Ct. of Eastern Franklin, 1936-, when appt. was youngest spl, justice to be appt. to such office in Franklin Co .; moderator, town of Montague 1931 -; v.p. and tr. Brith Abraham Soe., Turners Falls; mem. Franklin Co. Bar Assn., Tau Delta Phi, Greenfield, K.P. (Past Chancellor, Comdr.), Elks (Exalted Ruler). Club: Rotary. Otlice: 236 Main St., Greenfield. Ilome: 80 High St., Turners Falls.


VBLATT, William M., lawyer, writer; b. Orange, N.J., Apr. 29, 1876; s. Joseph 11. Blatt and Louise (Sin- ger) B ; cd. pub. schs .; tutors; Franklin medal- ist; LL.B. (cum laude), Boston Unlv. Sch. Law, 1897; student, Harvard, 1914-15; m. Luey Rom- berg Apr. 2, 1911; children-Hester, Josephine, Louise. Adm. Mass. bar, 1897, U.S. Supreme Ct., 1920; former pub. administrator; prof. med. juris- prudence, Coll. Physicians & Surgeons, Boston; leeturer, Boston Univ. Sch. Law., 1931 -; lecturer on drama and lit .; mem. Legal Advisory Bd., World War; mem. Law Soe. Mass. (v.D., 1931, pres., 1936-37), Am. Law Inst., Boston Univ. Law Sch. Assn. (pres., 1932), Masons, Odd Fellows, K.P. Clubs: New Century (past pres.), Boston City, Charlotte Cushman (dir.), Newton Village Play- ers , (pres.). Author: Leading Massachusetts Cases, 1896; articles in law journals, popular mags .; plays, Incl. Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Don't Wake the Baby, No Beauties Need Apply, After the Curtain Falls, Fourscore, Over Here, The Stranger's Burden, Husbands on Approval; one- act plays, monologues, sketches. Asso. ed., Corpus Juris, 1924; now Law Soc. Journal. Office: 43 Tremont St., Boston. Home: 81 Lanark Rd., Brighton.


VBLELOCH, William Cameron, business man; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 22, 1891; 's. Willlam Cam- eron Bleloch and Annie (McEuen) B .; ed. cent. high sch., Phila .; A.B., Univ. Pa., 1915; m. Virginia Ferree of Philadelphia, Sept. 30, 1922; children- Virginia Ferree, Cameron. Stoek elk., asst. dept. mgr., traveling salesman, Edward K. Tryon Co ..


Phila., 1909-18; salesman, div. sales mgr., Win- chester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn., 1919-26; salesman, v.p., sales mgr., dir., Montague Rod & Reel Co., Montague City, 1926 -; enlisted May 31, 1917, private, honorably discharged, Ist lt., Apr. 25, 1919; mem. Pi Delta Epsilon. Clubs: Greenfield Country, Greenfield (dir.). Protestant. Republican. Ollice: Montague City. Ilome: 7 Spring Ter., Greenfield.


BLISS, Albert L., supervisor of inventory control; 1). West Brookfield, Nov. 26, 1880; s. Albert W. Bliss and Melinda N. ( Hooker) B .; ed. Worcester Eng. high sch .; B.S., Worcester Poly. Inst., 1902; In. Caroline F. Baxter of Mansfield, O., Sept. 2, 1905; children-Elizabeth B., Jane R. Instr., Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y., 5 yrs .; supt., Baxter Stove Co., Mansfield, O., 10 yrs .; asst. supt., Gen. Elee. Co., Pittsfield, 10 yrs .; supervisor inventory con- trol, 10 yrs .; ehmn. dirs., Pittsfield Red Cross, Community Chest. Protestant. Republiean. Of- fice: Gen. Electrie Co., Pittsfield. Home: 30 Cro- fut St., Pittsfield.


YBLISS, Alfred Veazie, clergyman; b. Bangor, Me., Jan. 23, 1872; s. Charles E. Bliss and Louisa A. (Tyler) B .; ed. Bangor high sch .; A.B., Bowdoin Coll., 1894; S.T.B., Andover Theol. Sem., 1897; unmarried. Minister, Cong. Ch., Ludlow, Vt., 1898-1903, Plymouth Cong. Ch., Utiea, N.Y., 1903- 09, Winslow Cong. Ch., Taunton, 1911-1921; sec. for N.R., Am. Missionary Assn., 1921-1925; supt., Cong. Conf., Me., 1925-28; see. Mass. Cong. Conf. and Missionary. Soc. 1928 -; dir. Mass. Couneil of Churches, N.E. Town and Country Ch. Com .; mem. ex. com., Nat, Assn. for Advancement of Colored People, Boston Br .; dir. Robert Gould Shaw House, Boston; mem. Home Missions Coun- cil, Mass. Couneil of Churches. Clubs: Congre- gational (Boston), Winthrop. Travel: Europe, U.S. (38 states). Congregationallst. Independent. Otlice: 11 Beacon St., Boston. Home: 41 Phillips St., Wollaston.


BLISS, Allen Douglass, editor, chemistry instructor; b. Colchester, Vt., July 3, 1903; s. Deane S. Bliss and Mary G. (Douglass) B .; ed. Middlebury (Vt.) high seh .; A.B., Middlebury Coll., 1923; A.M., Har- vard, 1928, Ph.D., 1934; m. Emma F. Vaughan of Cambridge, Sept., 1934; 1 dau .- Eleanor S. Pub- lishing work, Brattleboro, Vt., 1924-27; grad. study, Harvard, 1927-32; asst. editor, Journal of American Chemical Society, 1927 -; chemical re- search, Harvard, 1932 -; instr., Northeastern Univ., 1935 -; mem. Am. Chem. Soc., A.A.A.S., Alpha Chi Sigma. Author: several scientific papers. Travel: U.S. Desc. Thomas Bliss, Rehoboth, 1653. Protestant. Republican. Office: Harvard University Chemieal Lab., 12 Oxford St., Cam- bridge. Home: 24 Tanager St., Arlington.


BLISS, Charles Allen, investment dealer; b. Brook- line, Aug. 14, 1886; s. Albert Whiting Bliss and Jennie Winship (Thayer) B .; ed. Westminster sch., Simsbury, Conn .; A.B., Harvard, 1908; n. Wilhelmina Shreve of Brookline Sept. 26, 1914; children-Janet, Anne. Entered banking and se- curity bus., 1908; White, Weld & Co., 1915, Harrls, Forbes & Co., 1915-20 (except during war). part- ner Morse, Bliss & Co., 1920-25; partner, Kinsley & Adams, Worcester, 1925 -. 2nd It., Res. Ml1. Aviator, Air Service Aeronautles, July, 1918-Jan., 1919; mem. Masons ( Quinsigamond Lodge). Club: Tatnuck Country. Unitarian. Republican. Of- fice: 6 Norwich St., Worcester. llome: 14 Trow- bridge Rd., Worcester.


BLISS. Charles Hemls, clergyman, retired; b. Tri- angle, N.Y., Jan. 23, 1868; s. Daniel J. Bliss and Seraph A. (Bemis) B .; ed. grad. Putnam (Conn.) high sch .; B.A., Yale, 1890, Ph.D., 1893; B.D., Hartford, 1903. Mem. Yale faculty, 1893-91, N.Y. Univ., 1894-98 (Exptl. Psychology-Sch. of Ped- agogy); Europe, 1899; Congregational pastor, 1903-27; research In psychology of religion, on ancestral homestead; mem, N.Y. Acad. Scienees, Am. Psychol. Assn., A.A.A.S .; assisted Liberty Loans campaign, ete. during World War, Clubs: Qnaboag flist. Soc., Quaboag Sportsmen's Club. Author of Levl and Lueinda Read, Some of Their Ancestors and All of Thelr Descendants, 1932.


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Travel: Europe. Desc. first settlers Bliss, Read, Chapln, Stebbins, Wright, Colton, Gardner, Marsh- field, Hubbard, Morrison, Rice, King, Leonard, Heath, Cadwell, Hitchcock, Burt, Bemis, Warren, etc. Congregationalist. Republican. Address: West Brookfield. Home: Warren.


VBLISS, Eliner Jared, shoe manufacturer; b. Wren- tham, Aug. 11, 1867; s. Leonard Carpenter Bliss and Eliza Crocker (Fisher) B .; ed. prepared for coll. in Edgartown high sch .; m. Lina Harding of Ellsworth, Me., Apr. 24, 1901; children-ES. Jared, Muriel Harding. Founded Regal Shoe Co., Sept. 1, 1893 (stores in prin, cities of U.S., factories at Whitman); dir. Ain: Mutual Llability Ins. Co., Am. Polleyholders' Ins. Co .; mem. Two Hundred Fifty Assos., Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm .; mem. advisory group of Bus. and Engring. Ad- ministration, Mass. Inst. Tech .; D.S.M., for services in U.S. and France, World War. Clubs: Edgar- town Yacht, Algonquin, Norfolk Hunt. Episco- palian. Republican. Office: 125 Summer St., Bos- ton. Home: "Dunroving Ranch," Chilmark.


VBLISS, Frederick Walter, manager of sales develop- ment; b. Cambridge, May 13, 1883; s. Zenas Wordsworth Bliss and Sophia Moore (Hayward) B .; ed. pub. schs., Staten Island, N.Y .; Wester- lelgh Coll., N.Y. City; m. Agnes Hayward Cook of Windsor Locks, Conn., 1905; children-Mrs. Reba Ann Buckle, Mrs. Agnes Frederica Dibble, Hayward Eleazar, William Hayden, Zenas Words- worth, Rowland Chamberlain, Vernon Hadleigh. With Edison Lamp Works, Harrison, N.J., 1905- 10; Invented "Uneek" typewriter paper cabinet (widely used in U.S.), 1907; Edison Lamp Works, Providence, R.I., 1910-28; Power Apparatus Dept., Gen. Elec. Co., Boston, now N.E. Dist. mgr. sales development; mem. N.IS. Council, Chamber of Commerce of Boston (chmin. com. Industrial rela- tions), of Wakefield (dir.), of U.S. (Nat. Coun- cillor), Boston Better Bus. Bur .; past chmu., Wakefield N.R.A. Com .; Four-Minute Man (1918); mem. R.I. Nat. Guard, Battery A, 1910-12, R.I. State Guard, 1918; mem. Illuminating Engring. Soc., Am. Inst. E.E., Nat. Geog. Soc., Engring. Socs. N.E., Inc. (pres., 1936-39), Providence En- gring. Soc. (pres., 1924); Advertising Fed. Am. (N.E. Dist. Gov., 1925). Clubs: Engineers, Rotary, Producers Council. Author: Bliss' Electro-Mag- netic Radiation Chart; Creed-"New England, Know Thyself". Colonial ancestors-Thomas Bliss, Rehoboth; Lt. Robert Hayward. Congre- gatlonalist. Republican. Office: General Elec- tric Co., 140 Federal St., Boston. Home: 31 Park Av., Wakefield.


V BLISS, Gorham, paper manufacturer; b. Longmea- dow, Sept. 2, 1901; s. Edgar S. Bliss and Jane Sophla (Gorham) B .; ed. grad., Storm King Sch., Cornwall, N.Y., 1919; B.S., Dartmouth Coll., 1923; m. Elizabeth Stewart Barr of Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1923; 1 son-Barr Bliss. With Worthy Paper Co., mfrs. fine writing paper, West Spring- field, 1923-, pres. and treas., 1929 -; mem. Phi Kappa Psi. Clubs: Dartmouth, University, Ro- tary, Tunxis (Springfield). Republican. Office: Worthy Paper Co., West Springfield. Home: 2 Cornell St., Springfield.


BLISS, Henry M., textile manufacturer; b. Boston, June 11, 1895; ed. A.B., Harvard, 1917; married. V.p. and treas. Mass. Mohair Plush Co., Boston, 1919 -; dir. Mass. Mohalr Plush Co., Newmarket Mfg. Co .; tr. Ludlow Mfg. Assos. Office: 80 Fed- eral St., Boston. Home: 155 Chestnut Ilill Rd., Chestnut Hill.


V BLISS, Henry Warren, upholstery manufacturer; b. Cambridge, Sept. 20, 1861; s. Henry Penniman Bliss and Delia (Warren) B .; ed. Noble's Prep. Sch., Boston; student, Mass. Inst. Tech., 1879; A.B., Ilarvard, 1884; m. Grace Beckwith of Platts- burg, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1893; children-Henry Math- er, Margaret (Mrs. Austin Blake Mason). Part- ner firm Cushing & Bliss, mfrs. upholstery, Bos- ton, from 1885, now retired; treas. Mass. Mohalr Plush Co., 1892-1916, pres. 1916 -; tr. Rangeley Pub. Lib. Clubs: Brookline Country, Union, Har- Re- vard (Boston, N. Y.). Congregationallst.


publican. Office: 80 Federal St., Boston, Home: Chestnut Illl.


BLISS, Mary Campbell, teacher, asso. professor of botany; b. Newburyport; d. Charles H. Bliss and Emily A. (Lydston) B .; ed. Newburyport high sch .; B.A., Wellesley Coll., 1899, M.A., 1904; Ph.D., Radcliffe Coll., 1921; studied Univ. Pa. Teacher, Wellesley Coll., 1904-, with several yrs. on leave of absence for grad. study, asso, prof. bot- any; fellow A.A.A.S., mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Bo- tanical Soc. America. Author: The Life History of Viola; The Interrelationships of the Taximac; The Vessel in Seed Plants. Travel in U.S. and


Canada. Congregationalist. Republican. Of- flce: Department of Botany, Wellesley Coll. Home: 18 Allen St., Newburyport.


VBLISS, William E., physician, surgeon; b. Prince- ville, Il., 1872; s. Onlas C. Bliss and Mary E. B .; ed, high sch. and acad., Princeville; Battle Creek Coll., Mich .; grad., Univ. Ill. Coll. Med .; grad. work, Chicago Polyclinic, Harvard Med. Sch., , N.Y. Post Grad. Med. Sch., also In London and Edinburgh; m. Dorothea A. Halgren of Lake Clty, Minn., Aug. 8, 1898. Med. dir. and surg., N.IS. Sanitarium and Hosp., 15 yrs .; med. dir., Hinsdale (Il.) Sanitarium and Hosp., several yrs .; now in pvt. practice, specializing in dis- eases of gastro-intestinal tract; fellow A.M.A .; mem. Mass. Med. Soc., Royal Coll. of Physicians (London). Home: 464 Highland Av., Malden.


BLODGETT. George Reddington, lawyer; b. Sche- nectady, N.Y., May 2, 1895; s. George Reddington Blodgett and Katharine B. (Burr) B .; ed. Colle- giate Sch., N.Y. City; A.B., Yale, 1916; LL .. B., Har- vard Law Sch., 1921; m. Isabel H. Arnold of Cam- bridge, May 3, 1924; children-Margaret R., Kath- arine. Practiced law with Herrick, Smith, Donald & Farley, Boston, 1921-, partner, 1928 -; dlr. The Yankee Network, Inc., Colonlal Network, Inc., The Shepard Co., The Crown Corp .; 1st lt., capt. Ordnance Dept., U.S.A., May 1917-Apr. 1919, comdn. officer, 1st and 3rd Army M.G. and S.A. Centers, France and Ger., May 1918-Apr. 1919. Clubs: Ex- change, Union Boat, Skating (Boston); Oakley Country (Belmont). Protestant. Republican. Office: 1 Federal St., Boston. Home: 10 Larchi- wood Dr., Cambridge. Summer res .: Pocasset.


BLODGETT, Stephen Haskell, physician (retired) ; b. Boston, Aug. 29, 1862; s. Warren Kendall Blod- gett and Minerva Precinda (Paddock) B .; ed. Mayhew, Ayers schs., Boston; A.B., Harvard, 1884; M.D., Harvard Med. Sch., 1886; m. Elizabeth Whit- ing Cummings of Brookline, Dec. 13, 1886 (d. 1928); in. 2d Elizabeth M. Derby of Boston, Jan. 3, 1938; children-Warren Kendall, 11, Edwin Stanton. 1st asst. physician, Mass. Mem. Hosp., 1887-1907; in charge urinary lab., 1895-1929; chief of staff, genito-urinary diseases, Boston Honroe. Dispensary, 1895-1929; lecturer, renal diseases, Boston Univ. Med. Sch., 1899-1908; clin. prof. urinary diseases, 1926-29; gen. practice, Cambridge, 1886-98; splty. kidney diseases and diabetes, Boston, 1898-1929; retired 1929; mem. 1st Bd. Registration Medicine, 1894; town of- fices, Lincoln; capt., M.C., U.S.A., 1916-17; major, U.S.R., 1917 -; mem. A.M.A., Mass. Med. Soc., Am. Assn. Med. Examiners, Mass. Homoe. Med. Soc., Mass. Surg. & Gynecol. Soc., Boston Soc. Examin- Ing Physicians & Surgeons, Harvard Med. Sch. Alumni Assn., Am. Legion, etc. Author: Kidney Diseases; many articles on splty, in med. journals. Protestant. Republican. Home: Lincoln.




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