Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Bliss, Abel Jr 1853 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

ABEL BLISS, Jr. One of the finest farms in New Lenox Township is that owned 
and occupied by the gentleman with whose name we introduce this sketch. As an 
agriculturist, he is thorough and skillful, and as a business man shrewd and 
enterprising, wise in his investments and possessing the energy which admits 
no such word as "fail." His dwelling is one of the finest in that section, and 
is flanked by a good barn and all the necessary outbuildings erected in modern 
sty1e of architecture and providing all the comforts and conveniences of 
modern life. The whole forms one of the most attractive homes in Will County. 
The proprietor is a man widely and favorably known, and comes of one of the 
best families of Northern Illinois. The subject of this notice was born at the 
homestead where he now lives August 8, 1853. His father, Abel Bliss, Sr., was 
a native of Wilbraham, Mass., and was born February 9, 1810. The mother bore 
the maiden name of Lucinda Blake. She also was a native of the Bay State and 
born in Springfield, October 14, 1816. The parents were married in Springfield 
May 6, 1840, and at once started for Illinois, coming to this county and 
settling on section 18, New Lenox Township. There the father gave his 
undivided attention to agricultural pursuits and lived to a ripe old age, 
being called hence December 25, 1883. He had visited Will County first in 
1837. The father of our subject possessed the unflagging industry and patience 
which is necessary to success, and became the owner of five hundred acres of 
land in New Lenox Township. He erected a neat and substantial set of farm 
buildings and surrounded himself and his family with all the comforts of life. 
He was an active member of the Methodist Church in which he held the various 
offices, and in politics was a Republican and was one of the first 
Abolitionists in this section. The mother is still living, remaining at the 
old homestead with her son, Abel. To herself and husband there was born a 
family of seven children, of whom Abel was next to the youngest. The subject 
of this notice remained with his parents during his boyhood and youth, 
pursuing his first studies in the common school and later attending for two 
years the High School at Englewood. Afterward he became a student of the 
Illinois University at Champaign. His tastes and inclinations led him to 
desire to become a Civil Engineer, but on account of his father's accumulated 
years and by his wish, he abandoned the project, and after his school life was 
over, returned to the farm where he has since followed agricultural pursuits. 
After the death of his father Mr. Bliss began operating a part of the large 
farm. He is now the owner of three hundred and forty acres of land in New 
Lenox Township; besides this he owns a large ranch of nine hundred and sixty 
acres in Gage County, Neb. He was married in this township February 21, 1877, 
to Miss Nettie, daughter of Stanton and Isabella (Doig) Lynk. Mr. Lynk is 
represented on another page of this Album. Mrs. Bliss was the eldest of a 
family of six children, three sons and three daughters, and was born in New 
Lenox Township, September 25, 1857. Of her union with our subject there has 
been born one child only, a daughter, Florence I., August 22, 1882. Mr. and 
Mrs. Bliss are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which Mr. Bliss has officiated as Steward and Trustee. He votes the straight 
Republican ticket and has held the office of Township Collector and School 
Trustee. He is Trustee of the Methodist Camp Ground Association, and Secretary 
of the New Lenox Mutual Insurance Company.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 

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