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Birth:          24 Mar 1900 Corning, N.Y.
Death:          28 Sep 1994 Schenectady, N.Y.

Notes
info from Mary Gail (from Blodgett book)
professor, Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., previously at Cornell, Iowa, 
Dartmouth,. In 1953, at Leiden Univ in Holland
1900 in Corning, Steuben Co., N.Y.
1910 in Corning, Steuben Co., N.Y. newsboy
1920 in Corning, Steuben Co., N.Y.
1930 in Hanover, Grafton Co., N.H. professor at Dartmouth College
www.gf.org/55fellow American Literature Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial 
Foundation
writer, editor of Whitman's Leaves of Grass
also edited Dartmouth College Manuscript Series
wrote Walt Whitman in England
co-authored a lot of books
http://www.crookedlakereview.com/articles/67_100/97april1996/97steubenhallfame.
html
The Blodgetts' first son, Lewis Alderman Blodgett, born in 1898, became a teacher 
and school principal. Their daughter Elsie taught English in Corning, and her twin 
brother Harold became a Walt Whitman scholar and professor emeritus of English at 
Union College.
Presler Fam Tree on ancestry

Parents
BLODGETT Arba Martin (7 May 1869 - 7 Jan 1957)
ALDERMAN Minnie R. (27 Feb 1867 - 27 Dec 1958)

Siblings
BLODGETT Lewis Alderman (8 Jul 1898 - 12 Feb 1967)
BLODGETT Elsie Bernice (24 Mar 1900 - 3 Jul 1991)
BLODGETT Harold William (24 Mar 1900 - 28 Sep 1994)

Marriage To BRIGGS Dorothy Ardis (20 Jun 1900 - 21 May 1992)
    m. 21 Aug 1924 Buffalo, N.Y.

Notes

Parents
BRIGGS George ()
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Children by BRIGGS Dorothy Ardis 20 Jun 1900 - 21 May 1992
BLODGETT Millicent Jean ()
BLODGETT William Allen (29 Dec 1926 - Mar 1973)
BLODGETT Geoffrey Thomas ()

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