Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Blodgett, Harry H. September 18, 1882 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jessica Orr orr@hawaii.com January 14, 2010, 8:13 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925 Author: George F. Nellist, Editor HARRY H. BLODGETT, Physician. A decision to make Honolulu his home, and to carry on his life work here, was reached by Dr. H. H. Blodgett after two years of service at Fort Shafter and Schofield Barracks as a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Leaving the military service in 1917, Dr. Blodgett began the practice of his profession in Honolulu with constantly growing success. In 1923-1924 he was associated with Dr. Nelson R. Hatt, assisting in the operations performed upon crippled children at the Shriners’ Hospital in Honolulu, and in 1918 and 1919, during the World War period, he returned to army service and was again assigned to Fort Shafter. He was president of the Medical Society of Hawaii in 1919. In his earlier military service he was in Vera Cruz, Mexico; Galveston, Texas, and for nearly a year had various stations in Mexico, South Dakota and Washington, D.C. Dr. Blodgett was an interne at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Chicago, from 1907 to 1908, was a surgeon with the Burlington railroad at Omaha, Neb., for a year and was continuously in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1911 to 1917. He was educated at the Indianola High School, Iowa, Simpson College, Iowa, and received his M.D. degree from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1907. Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity and Sigma Nu College fraternity are among Dr. Blodgett’s affiliations, and he is a member of the Oahu Country and University Clubs. He was born at Ida Grove, Iowa, Sept. 18, 1882, the son of Oscar Jerome and Mary Viola (Hoagland) Blodgett. In 1908 he married Esther Lyons of Chicago and they have three sons, Harry L., Jr., Julian R. and James Arthur Blodgett. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/blodgett167bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb