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Rev Lansing Bartlett Bloom

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Rev Lansing Bartlett Bloom

Birth
Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, USA
Death
14 Feb 1946 (aged 65)
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
Burial
Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA Add to Map
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Lansing is the son of:
Richard Hutchinson Bloom (1842-1900); and his wife Anna Root (Porter) Bloom. Anna was born 14 January 1850 in Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois. Richard was born 7 Jul 1842 in New York, and died 11 Nov 1900 in Auburn, Cayuga, New York, They were married in 1877, Auburn, Cayuga County, New York.

Lansing is the grandson of:
Lansing Porter, (1817-1902) and his wife, Elizabeth Curtis, (1822-1895).

Lansing Bloom was a Presbyterian missionary turned history professor specializing in Franciscan history in the Spanish borderlands. During World War I, he joined the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico as head of the War History Service. In 1929 he joined the history faculty of the University of New Mexico. His extensive research in archives of Mexico, Spain, and Italy yielded copies of major documents and publication of seminal work in Spanish-American history. He was also the longtime editor of the New Mexico Historical Review.

His assistant in these endeavors was his wife Maude Elizabeth McFie Bloom (1880-1973),a fervent supporter of the museum and school. She was the eldest daughter of Territorial Supreme Court Justice and lawyer, John Robert McFie, Sr., and his wife, Mary Barr (Steel) McFie.
Lansing is the son of:
Richard Hutchinson Bloom (1842-1900); and his wife Anna Root (Porter) Bloom. Anna was born 14 January 1850 in Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois. Richard was born 7 Jul 1842 in New York, and died 11 Nov 1900 in Auburn, Cayuga, New York, They were married in 1877, Auburn, Cayuga County, New York.

Lansing is the grandson of:
Lansing Porter, (1817-1902) and his wife, Elizabeth Curtis, (1822-1895).

Lansing Bloom was a Presbyterian missionary turned history professor specializing in Franciscan history in the Spanish borderlands. During World War I, he joined the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico as head of the War History Service. In 1929 he joined the history faculty of the University of New Mexico. His extensive research in archives of Mexico, Spain, and Italy yielded copies of major documents and publication of seminal work in Spanish-American history. He was also the longtime editor of the New Mexico Historical Review.

His assistant in these endeavors was his wife Maude Elizabeth McFie Bloom (1880-1973),a fervent supporter of the museum and school. She was the eldest daughter of Territorial Supreme Court Justice and lawyer, John Robert McFie, Sr., and his wife, Mary Barr (Steel) McFie.


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