B.Y. Blodget
History of Montana, 1898
US Genweb Montana Archives

B.Y. Blodget, a successful and enterprising farmer of the 
Bitter Root Valley, located three miles south of Grantsdale, 
was born in Ogden Utah in 1852, a son of Newman Greenleaf 
Blodget who was born in Vermont, September 22, 1800.  He spent 
his early life in his native state and was there married.  
His wife died, leaving five children.  Mr. Blodget was 
afterward married to Elizabeth E. Reid, the mother of our 
subject.  They then located in Council Bluffs, Iowa and in 
1850 removed to North Ogden Utah where the father died in 
1882.  He was a farmer and carpenter by occupation and was a 
Mormon in his religious faith.  His widow is still living 
aged seventy-four years.

In 1871 he came to Montana and engaged in freighting from 
Bitter Root to Corine and also over the entire settled 
portion of the Territory, continuing that occupation until 
the railroad was built.  April 10, 1878 Mr. Blodget secured 
from the Government his present farm of 320 acres.  May 22, 
1878 he married Miss Adaline Josephine Blodget, a native 
of Montana and a daughter of Joseph Smith Blodget.  
Although of the same name they were not related.  To 
this union were born four children, one of whom died 
in infancy and a son Horace Bliss, died at the age of  
twelve.  The surviving children are : Tyreen Ann and 
Newman Benjamin.  The wife and mother died in 1885. 

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