Bio of NEWELL, Louis Blodgett (b.1871), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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LOUIS BLODGETT NEWELL - Vol II, pg 179
Louis Blodgett Newell, president of the wholesale grocery house of George R.
Xewell & Company, is the adopted son of the founder of the firm, George R.
Newell, who is mentioned at length elsewhere in this work. He was born in
Chicago, Illinois, January 11, 1871. His mother, who bore the maiden name of
Alida Ferris, married Randolph Blodgett of Buffalo, New York, and to this union
were born two children: Louis; and Elizabeth, who died in infancy. Mr. Blodgett
died when his son was a small child and in 1876 Alida Ferris Blodgett was
married a second time, her husband, George R. Newell of Minneapolis, adopting
her son as his own child and giving him his name. Louis Blodgett Newell obtained
his education in Griswold College, Davenport, Iowa, then returned to Minneapolis
to enter his father's business. George R. Newell had come to this city at the
age of twenty-one from New York, his native state. His father, Hiram Newell, was
a native of Jay, New York, but lived most of his life in Tonawanda. In 1889,
when the son entered the business, Mr. Newell had formed the George R. Newell &
Company concern and had conducted it successfully for some six or seven years.
Subsequently the firm was incorporated with George R. Newell as president and
Louis B. Newell as secretary and treasurer, and when the older man died, in
1921, the son succeeded to the presidency. The business has grown steadily in
the past thirty-five years until the house is generally recognized as being one
of the leading concerns in its line of business in this part of the United
States.
On the 15th of June, 1898, Mr. Newell was united in marriage to Miss Helen
Winston, daughter of F. G. Winston of Minneapolis, and they have become the
parents of one child, a son named Winston Blodgett Newell. He is now married,
his wife having been Miss Florence Hendrickson of this city before her marriage.
Mr. Newell gives his allegiance and services to the republican party, although
he has never taken an active part in politics. His religious views are indicated
by his membership in the Protestant Episcopal church. He is a participant in the
social life of the city and a club man, belonging to the Minneapolis, Minikahda,
Lafayette and Woodhill Country clubs. Bequeathed a legacy that included not only
a large business concern but the tradition of personal and financial support for
civic and commercial movements for the betterment of Minneapolis, Mr. Newell has
striven to follow the ideals and policies of his father and has proven himself
an able executor of this trust.