. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. rinceton in Florence, Ala., 1847; fitted for College atPreparatory Academy in Florence, and at the Wes-leyan University in the same city ; graduated Princeton,1867; taught school at Bolivar, Tenn., for a year, andin 1868 moved to Dunbar, Penn., and took charge ofoffice of the Dunbar Furnace Co. ; in 1872, with others,organized the Dunbar Fire Brick Co., remaining with this company until i88g, when
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. rinceton in Florence, Ala., 1847; fitted for College atPreparatory Academy in Florence, and at the Wes-leyan University in the same city ; graduated Princeton,1867; taught school at Bolivar, Tenn., for a year, andin 1868 moved to Dunbar, Penn., and took charge ofoffice of the Dunbar Furnace Co. ; in 1872, with others,organized the Dunbar Fire Brick Co., remaining with this company until i88g, when he sold his interest;from 1875 until 1892 was connected with and interestedin several mining and manufacturing companies inPennsylvania, and from 1892 to 1894 was President ofUnion Ice Co. at Richmond, Ind., also Director of theElwood, (Ind.) Natural Gas and Oil Co. ARTHUR WEIR BLISS, Business Man, wasborn in Florence, Alabama, June i, 1847,son of Dr. Robert Lewis and Susan Collins is of New England Puritan ancestry, datingback to 1668. Both his great-grandfather andhis grandfather on the paternal side were nativesof Massachusetts, and Captains in the Revolutionary. .\RrHUK W. BUSS .\rmy, his great-grandfather. Captain Thomas Theo-dore Bliss, holding two commissions as Captain, onefrom Congress of ALassachusetts Bay, and one fromthe Continental Congress. He was prepared forCollege at the Preparatory Academy and at theWesleyan University in Florence, .Alabama, andentered Princeton in 1864, graduating in the Classof 1867. For a year after graduation he taughtschool in Bolivar, Tennessee, then removed toDunbar, Pennsylvania, and took charge of theoffice of the Dunbar Furnace Company, and in1872 organized, with others, the Dunbar Fire BrickCompany, continuing with that firm until 1875 to 1S92 he was connected with variousmining and manufiicturing companies in Pennsyl- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 253 vania, having been Secretary of tlie Percy MiningCompany — man
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