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Delos Abiel Blodgett Sr.

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Delos Abiel Blodgett Sr.

Birth
Milford, Otsego County, New York, USA
Death
1 Nov 1908 (aged 83)
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
OAKHILL--O-19-10
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Lumber "baron" & banker: Among his real estate was about 300,000 acres of pine land in the South, chiefly in Mississippi.

He founded the towns of Baldwin, Evart, & Hersey in Michigan.

He was an ardent agnostic, and a personal friend of Robert G. Ingersoll. Source: "Grand Rapids Herald", November 2, 1908.

His parents were Abiel D. Blodgett & Susan Richmond.

On September 9, 1859 in Woodstock, Illinois, he married Jennie S. Wood (AKA: Jane) (Died in 1890).

On June 3, 1893 he married his second wife, Daisy A. Peck, of Atlanta. She was the daughter of Prof. William Henry Peck, an author.

He was the grand-father of Katherine Cumnock Blodgett ( Died in 1980 ), who married Morris Hadley, of Yale University (Skull & Bones) & the famous law firm "Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCloy". Morris died in 1979.

Delos is buried in the same plot as his first wife, listed as Jane Wood Blodgett.
Lumber "baron" & banker: Among his real estate was about 300,000 acres of pine land in the South, chiefly in Mississippi.

He founded the towns of Baldwin, Evart, & Hersey in Michigan.

He was an ardent agnostic, and a personal friend of Robert G. Ingersoll. Source: "Grand Rapids Herald", November 2, 1908.

His parents were Abiel D. Blodgett & Susan Richmond.

On September 9, 1859 in Woodstock, Illinois, he married Jennie S. Wood (AKA: Jane) (Died in 1890).

On June 3, 1893 he married his second wife, Daisy A. Peck, of Atlanta. She was the daughter of Prof. William Henry Peck, an author.

He was the grand-father of Katherine Cumnock Blodgett ( Died in 1980 ), who married Morris Hadley, of Yale University (Skull & Bones) & the famous law firm "Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCloy". Morris died in 1979.

Delos is buried in the same plot as his first wife, listed as Jane Wood Blodgett.


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  • Added: May 11, 2008
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26754134/delos_abiel-blodgett: accessed ), memorial page for Delos Abiel Blodgett Sr. (3 Mar 1825–1 Nov 1908), Find a Grave Memorial ID 26754134, citing Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA; Maintained by NWO (contributor 46583762).