The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-09-01

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where to find him. In politics. DEM
ocrat of moderate views, he doesn't do
much at the business. He is a mem
Der of Washburn Post No. IT, G. A.
R. The pleasant home of the Bixbys
is graced by the presence of their two
daughters, Ruby A.. aud Pearl A. Blxby.
The Bliss family has been early and
conspicuously identified with the his
tory of Bradford. Ellis Bliss, Jr., was
born in Hebron, Conn.,, in 1861, served
nine months in the Revolution, mar
ried Abigail Taylor, emigrated to Brad
ford and settled on farm in the s)uth
part Of the town. Capt. Ellis Bliss,
his son, was born in 1887, settled on
the farm now owned by his son Joseph
w. Bliss, married Mary Worthen, and
they were the parents of thirteen chill
dren, eleven of whom lived to maturi-
ty. These children are Ellis, former
hotel keeper in town, deceased !;
George a medical graduate of Dart
mouth who studied medicine with DR..
Poole. and settled as a physician in
Portsmouth, Ohio Edmund P. resided
on the homestead Mary A., Mrs. Jesse
Johnson of Bradford Abigail, Mrs.
Manly Hartman Susan, wife of Ira
Clark, a physician resident at Bradford
and Lexington, Mich. Joseph W..
hereafter mentioned ; Neziah w, a
graduate of the University of Vermont,
a noted lawyer who located in Chicago
in 1882 as the legal counsellor for
Marshall Field & Co., the largest mer-
camille firm in "the windy city" Lu-
cinda, who married L. r. Morris 4
lawyer and for a time a publisher at
Bradford of the Green Mountain Farm
er and who later married James D..
Clark of Montpelier; Julia M. married
R. G. Shumway, manufacturer of
jewelry at Springfield, Mass. Lauretta,
who married Stephen w. Merrill, first
station agent here, disabled soldier,
now County Clerk at Carthage, Illinois.
"Uncle Joe Bliss is man of mark
ed and original personality, of hand
some yet rather stern aspect, whose
brusque manners are relieved by an &C.
casional outburst of jovial good humor,
and sparkle of wit. He has been
closely identified with the public and
business interests of the town for half a
century, and his stout figure is as ia
miliar here as the rising sun. For
many years he was an extensive buyer
of wool under the firm of Baldwin &
Bliss, and he was also largely engaged
in rearing, fitting, buying and selling
young horses. He has been engaged
in the lumber and sash and blind bust
ness, and was financially interested in
the extensive hardware firm of Henry
A. Winship & Co.
A democrat in politics, as such he
has represented this town four times in
the Legislature, and in 1874 was the
candidate of his party for speaker, OBJ
tanning more than the votes of his party.
Lie lldo oClFCu ulIiSlCSH JSdio do oSiSCt-
man, most of the time as chairman,
twenty-one years as overseer and two
years as justice of the peace. He in
troduced and procured the passage Of
the tramp law in 1878, In 1857 he
married Cynthia Patterson of Piermont,
N. H., and his wife died in 1862 at the
age of Fl. His later years are solaced
by the loving care of his two daughters,
Mary E. who presides in his home, and
Abbie &, who for several years has
been acceptably employed in the bank,
residing at home.
A man of most generous and liberal
impulses, Mr.. Bliss has often extended
aid to young men obtaining
an education or engaging in business,
sometimes to his severe. loss, and has
unfinchingly and bravely met such
losses in manner that stamps him as
a man of spotless integrity.
LYMAN J. BROWN.