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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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JOHN L. BLISS was born in Bath county, Kentucky, August 20, 1846, the son of Charles A. and Mary A. (nee Badger) Bliss, natives also of that State; father died in 1848. John L. attended the public school in Kentucky, and one term at the Commercial School, in Springfield, Illinois, in 1860. In 1870, he married Eliza Jane Gatton, who was born in this county, February 1, 1847; they have four children; Luella M., Carrie L., Josephus G. and Charles G. Mr. Bliss was engaged in the stock business for a number of years, and in 1870, bought his present farm of eighty acres, worth $65 an acre. In politics he is a Democrat.

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