The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-24
Continued on Page o.
DEATH YESTERDAY
OF E.. w. BLODGETT
Was Member of Board of Listers and
Served Several Years as Baiitf-
Retired Business Man.

Elliott Walter Blodgett, G5, a former
well-knowu business man. died at ll.J0 |
clock yesterday morning at his home,
20 Spruce street, after o long illness.
The last time he was able to leave the
house was Sept. %, when he rode to the
home of Daniel NJ. Barber and made u
call on Mr.. Barber. whose death occur
red last week. He had been critically
/ i'll with an incurable maladv the last
I two weeks
/ Mr.. Blodgett, with DeWeese p. De
/ Witt, established the first wholesale
grocery house in Brattleboro about -
/ years ago, ana had been prominent in
/ business and political circles during the
| last quarter OF a century, having the
4 confidence of all who knew him. Re
tiring from active business j. years
ago, he had devoted some of this time
to the service OF the town as a lister,
and was member of the executive com
nittce of the Brattleboro Trust com
Ipany. In 1901, 1902 and 1903 he
served as q member or the board OF
hailifs of the village and in 1907, 1905,
1909 he was Il lister, being defeated for
selectman in 1909. In 1911 he was
again elected lister and was a member
OF the board at the time of his death.
Mr.. Blodgett was boru Nov. Il, 1913,
in Stratton, being the next to the
youngest of nine children born to Jo-
seph ami Irene (Scott1 Blodgctt. Al
ter the death Of his mother, when hc
was about nine wears OF age he left
his home and made his own way III the
world. lie attended Leland and Gray
seminary in Townshend and later came
to Brattleboro ana worked in the Smith
& Robbins bakery.
Mr. Blodgctt went to Ncwfanc and
conducted for number of years the
; store now owned by ". +. Eamcs. Dur
} ing much Of that time he was postmas-
I ter as well. He bought farm at New
Zane for his brother, but when the
brother decided not to make his home
there Mr.. Blodgett disposed of his store
and lived on the farm for four years
I before coming to Brattleboro p years
5 ago to make his permanent home.
On July |, 1855, he moved to Brat
: tleboro and the next year with DeWeese
p. Dewitt opened grocery store in the
place now occupied by the china depart
= ment of Emerson & Son, furniture deal
r ers. After about year they gave NJ
:. the retail business and conducted
: wholesale grocery business and TIVE
: years later removed to the Crosby ware
+ house, which has just been removed OF
= account of railroad developments. The,
: were there about eight years and thel
; Mr.. Blodgctt sold his intrest to Mr.. De
J. Witt, who later organized the Dewitt
Grocery company.
;. While in Newfane Mr.. Blodgctt mar
8 ried, Feb. l. 1870, Miss Lucy G. Bar
(. rett of Wardsboro, who died Nov. c
- 1898. lie married in June, 1904, Mis-
$, Fannie Riley Of Niagara Fails, who sul
. wives. Besides his wife Mr.. Blodget
q leaves one daughter by his first MAJ
r riage, Ella, wife of Major c. Houghto
70 Of Brattleboro. He also leaves on
/ brother, Oscar Blodgett of Putney, an
If Zone sister, Mrs. Leslie Lowe of Town
= hend.
no Mr.. Blodgett was a frequent atten,
:, ant at the First Baptist church and ha
ao been a member Of Quonektieut tribe
. Red Men and of the Vermont Whe
g club but had withdrawn from both o
Ell. CARNATIONS. A staunch Republican
IN politics, he always lent his aid to II
party and had been honored by ele
tt tions as bailiff and lister of the villa.
in on several occasions
th The funeral will be held Wednesd;
ME afternoon at go clock at the hon
NJ. Rev. T.. Q. S. Osgood, pastor of Il
26 Unitarian church. officiating. T.
he burial will take place in Prospect h
no cemetery.