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Blodgett (surname)
Blodgett is an English people, English family-surname of uncertain origin. Several researchers claim a French-Norman descent for the name, and point out that one Robert Bloct (Blojet or Bloyet) was a Normans, Norman bishop in the service of William the Conqueror. Robert came to England during the Norman Conquest and was appointed Bishop of Lincoln. Other research suggests a French Huguenot ancestry. There are records for the family, from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, in the eastern area of England north of London.''Ten Generations of Blodgetts in America'', Edwin Blodgett, 1911 (Reprinted by Modern Print Company, 1969) In the United States, the entire Blodgett family, from all available records, descends from one English couple. Thomas Blodgett, born in 1604, emigrated to America in 1635 with his wife Susan. Thomas was born on November 18, 1604, in Stowmarket, Suffolk, Suffolk County. England, and settled with Susan in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge in the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Williams Blodgett
Henry Williams Blodgett (July 21, 1821 – February 9, 1905) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Education and career Born on July 21, 1821, in Amherst, Massachusetts, Blodgett read law in 1844. He entered private practice in Waukegan, Illinois from 1845 to 1869. He was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1852 to 1854. He was a member of the Illinois Senate from 1858 to 1862. Federal judicial service Blodgett was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant on January 10, 1870, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by Judge Thomas Drummond. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 11, 1870, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on December 5, 1892, due to his retirement. Later career and death Following his retirement from the federal bench, Blodgett served as United States counsel before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Blodgett
Timothy Paul Blodgett is an American law enforcement officer who served as the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives from January to April 2021. Early life and education Blodgett was born in Rochester, New York on June 16, 1966. Blodgett attended Buffalo State College earning a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Political Science and Philosophy 1988 and attended the Washington College of Law at American University earning a J.D. degree in 1992. Career Early career Blodgett was admitted to the bars of the State of New York, the District of Columbia, the Western District of New York, and the Supreme Court. Blodgett clerked for Associate Chief Administrative Law Judge G. Marvin Bober and the Department of Labor and worked primarily on compensation issues involving Black Lung and Asbestosis from 1991 to 1993. Blodgett was then hired as an associate for Harris, Chesworth, and O’Brien concentrating on labor and employment and municipal issues involving law enforcement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett (April 1, 1724-September 1, 1807) (sometimes spelled Blodget, and sometimes Samuel Blodgett, Sr. to distinguish him from descendants with the same name) was an early American lawyer, industrialist, and financier who founded the city of Manchester, New Hampshire. As a lawyer, Blodgett served as a mediator between the sides in the Pine Tree Riot, getting a settlement from anti-Crown mill owners who had hired him to represent their case against the Royalist governor of New Hampshire John Wentworth in 1772. During the American Revolutionary War he firmly supported the patriot cause. In 1807, Blodgett built a canal around Amoskeag Falls to aid in navigation of ships traveling up and down the Merrimack River. He pushed for the renaming of the small rural town of Derryfield, New Hampshire to Manchester, in honor of Manchester in England, a well-known textile-manufacturing center. The renaming of the town, at Blodgett's behest, coincided with the founding of the Amosk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufus Blodgett
Rufus Blodgett (October 9, 1834October 3, 1910) was a United States senator from New Jersey and Superintendent of the New York & Long Branch Railroad for 25 years. He served as the Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey on five occasions. He was the only person in either house of Congress to vote against the Sherman Antitrust Act The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 (, ) is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. It was passed by Congress and is named for Senator John Sherman, its principal author. .... References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Blodgett, Rufus 1834 births 1910 deaths Mayors of Long Branch, New Jersey County commissioners in New Jersey New Jersey Democrats Democratic Party United States senators from New Jersey 19th-century American politicians People from Grafton County, New Hampshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Blodgett
Pauline Blodgett Watson (April 13, 1919 - November 12, 2018) was an American figure skater, and a member of Boston Skating Club.Skaters Seek Title , '''', December 26, 1935, p. 8, retrieved 2010-11-21Boston Girl Wins Figure Skate Toga , '' |
Minnie Cumnock Blodgett
Minnie Cumnock Blodgett (1862–1931) graduated from Vassar College in 1884, later becoming a trustee (1917–1931). She is the mother of Katharine Blodgett Hadley (VC '20), who was also a Vassar trustee (1942–1954), and was chairman of the Board (1945–1952). Her husband, John W. Blodgett, built their estate, which they named Brookby, where they made their Grand Rapids home. Vassar College and Euthenics program After Ellen Swallow Richards' death in 1911, Julia Lathrop (1858–1932), another of Vassar's most distinguished alumnae, continued to promote the development of an interdisciplinary program in euthenics at the college. Lathrop soon teamed with alumna Minnie Cumnock Blodgett, who with her husband, John Wood Blodgett, offered financial support to create a program of euthenics at Vassar College. Curriculum planning, suggested by Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken in 1922, began in earnest by 1923. In 1925, through a gift of $550,000.00 from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Blodgett
Michael Blodgett (September 26, 1939 – November 14, 2007) was an American actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Of his many film and television appearances he is best known for his performance as gigolo Lance Rocke in Russ Meyer's 1970 cult classic ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls''. He retired from acting in the late 1970s and began a writing career. Early life and career Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Blodgett attended the University of Minnesota before moving to Los Angeles to act. Once in Los Angeles, he earned a degree in political science from Cal State Los Angeles and attended Loyola Law School for one year before turning his attention to acting. In the summer of 1967, Blodgett served as emcee of ''The Groovy Show'', a beach-party dance show for teens on Los Angeles's KHJ-TV. In 1968, Blodgett moved to KTTV, where he hosted a 90-minute Saturday night talk show, ''The Michael Blodgett Show''. After his role in ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' in 1970, Blodgett appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979) was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, in 1926. Early life Blodgett was born on January 10, 1898, in Schenectady, New York. She was the second child of Katharine Buchanan (Burr) and George Reddington Blodgett. Her father was a patent attorney at General Electric where he headed that department. He was shot and killed in his home by a burglar just before she was born. GE offered a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the killer, but the suspected killer hanged himself in his jail cell in Salem, New York. Her mother was financially secure after her husband's death, and she moved to New York City with Katharine and her son George Jr. shortly after Katharine's birth. In 1901, Kathari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Haygood Blodgett
Joseph Haygood Blodgett (1858–1934), usually referred to as J. H. Blodgett, was an contractor and architect, living and working in Jacksonville, Florida, during the early twentieth century. He was African American. Life and career Blodgett was born into slavery in Augusta, Georgia on February 8, 1858."Joseph Haygood Blodgett," African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945' ed. Dreck Spurlock Wilson (New York: Routledge, 2004): 58-60. As a teenager, he left the farm and went to Summerville, South Carolina, where he initially worked as a laborer but eventually established his own businesses, including a drayage operation and a lumberyard, before turning to farming. After a bankruptcy he relocated to Jacksonville, working for the railroad before resuming some of his earlier business operations, including another lumberyard. In 1898, he went into the contracting business full-time and was responsible for much housing in the expanding city."Joseph Haygood Blodgett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John W
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Blodgett
Geoffrey Blodgett (October 13, 1931 – November 15, 2001) was Robert S. Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio. As a student at Oberlin from 1949-1953, he was a student of Oberlin history professor Robert Samuel Fletcher He was also a wide receiver on the Yeomen, the college's men's football team. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin in 1953, Blodgett served two years with the United States Navy in the Pacific Fleet. He received a PhD at Harvard University in 1961, and returned to the college a year later to join the History Department. His dissertation focused on a group of political reformers of the late 19th century who left the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party, the Mugwumps. Throughout his career as a professor he focused on the history of architecture, publishing several books and many articles. He also published many articles on the history of Oberlin College, continuing the work of Fletcher. His articles on Oberli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
