Arthur Weir Bliss and Lida G. Gilmore

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Husband Arthur Weir Bliss ¹

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           Born: 1 Jun 1847 - Florence, AL 2
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           Died: 25 Aug 1903 - Atlantic City, NJ 2
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         Father: Robert Lewis Bliss, Dr. (1803-1872) 2
         Mother: Susan Collins (1807-      ) 2

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       Marriage: 6 Jan 1881 3

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Wife Lida G. Gilmore ¹

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           Born:  - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA
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           Died: Aft 1912
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         Father: Judge Samuel Anderson Gilmore (1806/1808-1873) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
         Mother: Elvira A. Plumer (1827-1892) 5 6 10 11

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Children

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1 F Adele Bliss ³

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2 F Florence Bliss ³

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General Notes: Husband - Arthur Weir Bliss

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He prepared for college at home. At the age of sixteen years he entered Princeton University beginning with last half year of the sophomore class. He was graduated with the class two and a half years later, having completed the prescribed classical course. After graduation he returned south, taught at Bolivar, Tennessee, one year, then came to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where he engaged with the Dunbar Furnace Company as bookkeeper at their Dunbar plant. While occupying this position he became of legal age and cast his first vote. He remained with the Dunbar Furnace Company several years, gradually rising to more responsible positions. Later he resigned and formed a partnership with George C. Marshall and the two young men began the manufacture of fire brick, with plant at Dunbar. They prospered wonderfully, again and again enlarging their plant, the development of the coke industry creating a great demand for their product. After many successful years in business as fire brick manufacturers, they began the manufacture of coke; they found this business profitable and became one of the most extensive coke producing firms in Fayette County. They owned large plants at Percy, Oliphant and at many other points in the county, all producing merchantable coke. Mr. Bliss continued actively in business until his death. He resided in Uniontown at the old Judge Gilmore mansion, the childhood home of his wife, and one of the fine resident locations of Uniontown.
He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Episcopal church.

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General Notes: Wife - Lida G. Gilmore

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Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 466.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 470.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 471.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 146.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 465.

6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 246.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 55, 64.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 153.

9 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 248.

10 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 756.

11 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 408.

12 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 85.