Business Journal . e wentto Florida for the winter. The following spring he went toColorado where he seemed to improve for -nine time and wasable to spend the winter holidays at his home in Saginaw, re-turning to Colorado about the middle of January. However,as spring approached, he seemed to decline again and returnedto Saginaw on the §d of May, where he passed away just isdays later. Mr. Bliss was born at Conneaut, Ohio, on March ::, 1861,coming from a family of --turd) Ohio pioneers who had livedin that township ior nearly one hundred years. He receivedhis early education in his native town
Business Journal . e wentto Florida for the winter. The following spring he went toColorado where he seemed to improve for -nine time and wasable to spend the winter holidays at his home in Saginaw, re-turning to Colorado about the middle of January. However,as spring approached, he seemed to decline again and returnedto Saginaw on the §d of May, where he passed away just isdays later. Mr. Bliss was born at Conneaut, Ohio, on March ::, 1861,coming from a family of --turd) Ohio pioneers who had livedin that township ior nearly one hundred years. He receivedhis early education in his native town, after which he at-tended the Valparaiso, I Normal. He taught school fortwo or three years, and then deciding to take up com-mercial school work, took a course at (larks Business Col-lege, of Erie, Pa., where he was retained as a teacher. Hewas not long contented to work for some one else, and in1885, he, in company with W. W. Phipps, opened the Inter-national Business College, of Saginaw, Michigan. This in-. Fred H. Bliss. stitution prospered from the start and grew to be one of thelargest schools in the State. Mr. Bliss devoted his entire timeto this work for 11 years, when he sold out, and withhis brother, C. A. I!li-s. went to the New England States andstarted a number of schools which are to-day among themost prosperous institutions of the East They also openedthe Hli College, of Columbus, Ohio, which has an animalattendance of aboul BOO In every school with which Mr. Bliss was connected, heinsisted upon the best courses, the most up-to-date methods,and competent, conscientious teachers, believing that thepupils were entitled to tin best instruction possible. Xordnl he consider his obligation cancelled until the student hadbeen placed in a good position. Main young men and womennave been given free scholarships in his schools, and often-times they have also been given board m his own home.[Thousands of young people have > thankful that they were privileged to tak
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