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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
John Blodgett


Alma mater
  
Worcester

Political party
  
Born
  
July 26, 1860 (
1860-07-26
)

Occupation
  
Spouse(s)
  
Minnie Cumnock Blodgett married 1895 until her death 1931

Children
  
John Wood Blodgett, Jr. (1901 - 1987)Kathrine Cumnock Blodgett Hadley ((1898-01-13)January 13, 1898 - August 11, 1980(1980-08-11) (aged 82))

Parent(s)
  
Delos A. BlodgettJennie S. Wood

Died
  
1951, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

John Wood Blodgett was a lumberman, civic leader, and philanthropist. He was born on a frontier farm where the present village of Hersey, Michigan, now sits, to logging and sawmill operation owner Delos A. and Jane Wood Blodgett.

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Education

John's father built a school for the settlement where he received his early education, then attended Todd Seminary, Woodstock, IL, and Military Academy in Worcester, MA, graduating in 1876. Expecting college, his father's illness directed John into the family's pine-logging and milling interests, quickly learning the trade.

National Lumber Manufacturers Association

Blodgett was president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in 1922, 1923, and 1930.

Blodgett family archive

According to the Finding aid for Blodgett Family papers, 1872-1953 abstract at Bentley Historical Library within the University of Michigan Digital Library, the family archive contains :

Blodgett's consolidation of three banks during the depression protected many of his clients' homes and account balances. The product of that consolidation was the American Home Security Bank. He and his wife, Minnie, were quite the philanthropists, noted for the Blodgett Memorial Hospital, the Clinic for Infant Feeding, Vassar College's Minnie Cumnock Blodgett Hall of Euthenics, The Association for the Blind, among many others.

References

John W. Blodgett Wikipedia


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