OBIT: Samuel BLODGET, 1870, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by MS Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ DIED - BLODGET - On Saturday last, John A Blodget, Esq., once a member of the Legislature from Bedford county, and a leading member of the bar of that county. for many years, died at the residence of his son-in- law, Hon. Samuel Calvin, in the 73d year of his age. The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, March 9, 1870 IN MEMORIAM [abstract] - John Adams Blodget, died on the 5th inst., at the residence of his son-in-law, Hon. Saml. Calvin, in this place, of pulmonary disease, after a lingering illness of several months. Mr. Blodget was born in Philadelphia, on the 28th of December, 1797, and consequently died at the advanced age of over seventy two years. He was a grandson, on the paternal side, of Saml. Blodget, a distinguished man in New Hampshire, who was born in Massachusetts in 1730, and died in New Hampshire in 1807. On the maternal side, he was the grandson of Rev. Wm. Smith, D.D. of Philadelphia, who was one of the most distinguished divines and orators of the Revolutionary period. He was the son of Mr. Saml. Blodget, an enterprising merchant and business man, and who was also one of the proprietors and founders of Washington City. His remains were interred at the cemetery in this place. The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, March 16, 1870