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Dr. M G BLISS, M.D.
was born in Otego,
Otsego, County, N. Y., November 24, 1828, and is one of the eleven
children of Simeon and Betsey Knapp Bliss, the former a native of
Massachusetts, the latter of Rhode Island. Simeon Bliss was a
life-long farmer, and moved from New York to Indiana in 1856,
locating in White County, where he died in 1864, and his wife about
one year afterward. The grandfather of our subject was a Lieutenant
in the Revolutionary war.Dr. Bliss resided with his parents until
his seventeenth year, attending school, and afterward assisting his
brothers in the lumber trade, finishing his literary education at
Wellsburg Academy, in Tioga County, Penn. In 1850, he went to
California, via Isthmus of Panama, where he engaged in mining for
three years. On arriving at Foster's Bar, Yuba River, he had but $1,
which he invested in a dinner. In 1853, he returned to the States,
and began the study of medicine with Dr. Eaton, of Cass County, Ind.
After his first term of lectures, he began practice at Pulaski, and
in September, 1861, enlisted as private in Company E, Ninth Illinois
Cavalry, and, after three months, was promoted to Battalion
Quartermaster, with rank of Second Lieutenant. During most of his
term, he was on detached duty as Assistant Surgeon until his
discharge, in 1863. He then recommenced practice in Pulaski, and, in
1865, came to Crown Point and began the drug business; this he
continued until 1874, when he was burned out. During the winter of
1874-75, he attended lectures at and graduated from Bennett Eclectic
Medical College, Chicago, since which he has been in practice at
Crown Point, where he is a leading and successful physician. In
November, 1860, he was married to Miss H. Amanda Herring, a native
of Pittsburgh, Penn., and a resident of Logansport, Ind. To this
union succeeded one daughter - Lillie. Mrs. Bliss died in 1863. In
1865, Dr. Bliss married Miss Sarah E. Herring, sister of his former
wife; she died in 1879, leaving three children - George M., Harry P.
and Susan L. Dr. Bliss is a Mason, a Republican, and Secretary of
the Board of Health of Lake County.
Source: "Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana, Historical and Biographical" Goodspeed and Blanchard, 1882Page: 601, 602; Crown Point and Centre TownshipSumbitted by: marie626@email.msn.com |