Parents are Simeon and Lucy Bliss. Source: Vermont Vital Records. Marriage date 10 Aug 1832 in Andover MA source: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records.
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Obituary: Jamestown NY Daily Journal, March 25, 1881
Death of Rev. Asher Bliss
Rev. Asher Bliss, for many years a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Seneca Indians of Western New York, died Wednesday morning at his residence in South Valley, Cattaraugus County, N Y., aged eighty years. He was paternally descended from Thomas Bliss, who was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn. , through the well known Springfield branch of the family, as also from Deacon Samuel Chapin, Sergeant Miles Morgan and other prominent founders of Springfield. Through his mother, Lucy Southworth, of Mansfield, Conn. , he was descended from Mrs. Gov. Bradford, from John Alden, of Mayflower fame, from Rev. Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut colony, and from Rev. John Wilson, the first minister of Boston, Mass. He was born at West Fairlee, Vt., February 20, 1801, brought up on a farm, educated at Thetford Academy, graduated at Amherst College in 1820 and at Andover Seminary in 1832, and in November of the same year commenced his labors as missionary to the Seneca Indians on Cattaraugus reservation, Erie County, N. Y., having married Miss Cassandra Hooper, of Boylston, Mass. He remained at Cattaraugus until November, 1851, when he temporarily retired from mission work and settled at Corydon, Warren County, Pa. on the Alleghany river and near the Alleghany reservation of Seneca Indians. There he organized a church. He subsequently removed to the adjoining town of South Valley, Cattaraugus county, N.Y., and for many years ministered almost gratuitously to several small congregations in the vicinity as well as to the Indians of the Alleghany reservation. His health had been robust until two years ago, when a dangerous illness, followed by the death of his beloved wife (April 21,1879), had a serious effect upon his constitution. He was an ardent advocate of many reforms, having been for above fifty years, since his college days, devoted to the abolition of slavery. He lived to see the Seneca Indians, in great measure through his labors, elevated from comparative barbarism to a condition of agricultural prosperity, good education and morals. He leaves four sons, three of whom served in the war for the Union, and another is engaged in literary tasks in New York city.
Contributor: Donna Markey (47734716) •
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Obituary: Jamestown NY Daily Journal, March 25, 1881
Death of Rev. Asher Bliss
Rev. Asher Bliss, for many years a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Seneca Indians of Western New York, died Wednesday morning at his residence in South Valley, Cattaraugus County, N Y., aged eighty years. He was paternally descended from Thomas Bliss, who was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn. , through the well known Springfield branch of the family, as also from Deacon Samuel Chapin, Sergeant Miles Morgan and other prominent founders of Springfield. Through his mother, Lucy Southworth, of Mansfield, Conn. , he was descended from Mrs. Gov. Bradford, from John Alden, of Mayflower fame, from Rev. Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut colony, and from Rev. John Wilson, the first minister of Boston, Mass. He was born at West Fairlee, Vt., February 20, 1801, brought up on a farm, educated at Thetford Academy, graduated at Amherst College in 1820 and at Andover Seminary in 1832, and in November of the same year commenced his labors as missionary to the Seneca Indians on Cattaraugus reservation, Erie County, N. Y., having married Miss Cassandra Hooper, of Boylston, Mass. He remained at Cattaraugus until November, 1851, when he temporarily retired from mission work and settled at Corydon, Warren County, Pa. on the Alleghany river and near the Alleghany reservation of Seneca Indians. There he organized a church. He subsequently removed to the adjoining town of South Valley, Cattaraugus county, N.Y., and for many years ministered almost gratuitously to several small congregations in the vicinity as well as to the Indians of the Alleghany reservation. His health had been robust until two years ago, when a dangerous illness, followed by the death of his beloved wife (April 21,1879), had a serious effect upon his constitution. He was an ardent advocate of many reforms, having been for above fifty years, since his college days, devoted to the abolition of slavery. He lived to see the Seneca Indians, in great measure through his labors, elevated from comparative barbarism to a condition of agricultural prosperity, good education and morals. He leaves four sons, three of whom served in the war for the Union, and another is engaged in literary tasks in New York city.
Contributor: Donna Markey (47734716) •
Parents are Simeon and Lucy Bliss. Source: Vermont Vital Records. Marriage date 10 Aug 1832 in Andover MA source: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records.
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Obituary: Jamestown NY Daily Journal, March 25, 1881
Death of Rev. Asher Bliss
Rev. Asher Bliss, for many years a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Seneca Indians of Western New York, died Wednesday morning at his residence in South Valley, Cattaraugus County, N Y., aged eighty years. He was paternally descended from Thomas Bliss, who was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn. , through the well known Springfield branch of the family, as also from Deacon Samuel Chapin, Sergeant Miles Morgan and other prominent founders of Springfield. Through his mother, Lucy Southworth, of Mansfield, Conn. , he was descended from Mrs. Gov. Bradford, from John Alden, of Mayflower fame, from Rev. Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut colony, and from Rev. John Wilson, the first minister of Boston, Mass. He was born at West Fairlee, Vt., February 20, 1801, brought up on a farm, educated at Thetford Academy, graduated at Amherst College in 1820 and at Andover Seminary in 1832, and in November of the same year commenced his labors as missionary to the Seneca Indians on Cattaraugus reservation, Erie County, N. Y., having married Miss Cassandra Hooper, of Boylston, Mass. He remained at Cattaraugus until November, 1851, when he temporarily retired from mission work and settled at Corydon, Warren County, Pa. on the Alleghany river and near the Alleghany reservation of Seneca Indians. There he organized a church. He subsequently removed to the adjoining town of South Valley, Cattaraugus county, N.Y., and for many years ministered almost gratuitously to several small congregations in the vicinity as well as to the Indians of the Alleghany reservation. His health had been robust until two years ago, when a dangerous illness, followed by the death of his beloved wife (April 21,1879), had a serious effect upon his constitution. He was an ardent advocate of many reforms, having been for above fifty years, since his college days, devoted to the abolition of slavery. He lived to see the Seneca Indians, in great measure through his labors, elevated from comparative barbarism to a condition of agricultural prosperity, good education and morals. He leaves four sons, three of whom served in the war for the Union, and another is engaged in literary tasks in New York city.
Contributor: Donna Markey (47734716) •
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Obituary: Jamestown NY Daily Journal, March 25, 1881
Death of Rev. Asher Bliss
Rev. Asher Bliss, for many years a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Seneca Indians of Western New York, died Wednesday morning at his residence in South Valley, Cattaraugus County, N Y., aged eighty years. He was paternally descended from Thomas Bliss, who was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn. , through the well known Springfield branch of the family, as also from Deacon Samuel Chapin, Sergeant Miles Morgan and other prominent founders of Springfield. Through his mother, Lucy Southworth, of Mansfield, Conn. , he was descended from Mrs. Gov. Bradford, from John Alden, of Mayflower fame, from Rev. Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut colony, and from Rev. John Wilson, the first minister of Boston, Mass. He was born at West Fairlee, Vt., February 20, 1801, brought up on a farm, educated at Thetford Academy, graduated at Amherst College in 1820 and at Andover Seminary in 1832, and in November of the same year commenced his labors as missionary to the Seneca Indians on Cattaraugus reservation, Erie County, N. Y., having married Miss Cassandra Hooper, of Boylston, Mass. He remained at Cattaraugus until November, 1851, when he temporarily retired from mission work and settled at Corydon, Warren County, Pa. on the Alleghany river and near the Alleghany reservation of Seneca Indians. There he organized a church. He subsequently removed to the adjoining town of South Valley, Cattaraugus county, N.Y., and for many years ministered almost gratuitously to several small congregations in the vicinity as well as to the Indians of the Alleghany reservation. His health had been robust until two years ago, when a dangerous illness, followed by the death of his beloved wife (April 21,1879), had a serious effect upon his constitution. He was an ardent advocate of many reforms, having been for above fifty years, since his college days, devoted to the abolition of slavery. He lived to see the Seneca Indians, in great measure through his labors, elevated from comparative barbarism to a condition of agricultural prosperity, good education and morals. He leaves four sons, three of whom served in the war for the Union, and another is engaged in literary tasks in New York city.
Contributor: Donna Markey (47734716) •
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