BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON (1833 )

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BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON (1833 ) , American merchant and politician, was born at Fall River,

Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

, on the 26th of January 1833. He was educated in his native city and in New Orleans, where he early entered his step-father's counting-

house

HOUSE
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Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

. Returning to

Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

in 1849, he became a clerk and subsequently a junior partner in a prominent Boston commercial

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

. Later he removed to New

York

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, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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City to establish a branch of the firm. In 1881 he organized and became president of

Bliss

BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON (1833– )

, Fabyan & Company, one of the largest wholesale dry-goods houses in the country. A consistent

advocate

of the protective tariff, he was one of the organizers, and for many years president, of the American Protective Tariff League. In politics an active Republican, he was chair-man of the Republican state committee in 1887 and 1888, and contributed much to the success of the Harrison ticket in New

York

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YORK (HOUSE OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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in the latter year. He was treasurer of the Republican national committee from 1892 to 1904, and Was secretary of the interior in President

McKinley

MCKINLEY, WILLIAM (1843—1901)

's cabinet from 1897 to 1899.

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