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Eliphalet Williams Bliss
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Eliphalet Williams Bliss

American manufacturer and inventor

Eliphalet Williams Bliss (April 12, 1836 – July 21, 1903) was an American manufacturer and inventor who established the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York. His company supplied the US Navy with Whitehead and Bliss-Leavitt torpedoes, as well as projectiles for its naval guns during the Spanish–American War (in 1898), World War I (of 1914–1918) and World War II (of 1939–1945).2

From Wikipedia’s article on Eliphalet Williams Bliss (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Apr 12, 1836, died Jul 21, 1903.1

Companies

Early life and education

Bliss was born on April 12, 1836, in Fly Creek, New York, United States, one of six children of physician John Stebbins Bliss and his wife, Ruby Ann Williams Bliss. The young Bliss was educated at public schools and at a seminary. He apprenticed at an Otsego County machine shop until he was twenty-one years of age. He later moved to New England and found work at the Parker gun factory in Meriden, Connecticut.

During the American Civil War he served as a corporal in Company I of the 3rd Connecticut Volunteers and saw action during the First Battle of Bull Run. One of his brothers, Lucien Wood Williams Bliss, served with the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he returned to New York and married Anna Elizabeth Metcalf on June 19, 1865. The following year, he relocated permanently to Brooklyn, where he was employed for a time at the Campbell Printing Press Company.

From Wikipedia’s article on Eliphalet Williams Bliss (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Career

Occupation: businessperson.4

Personal life

  • BornApr 12, 1836, Fly Creek5
  • DiedJul 21, 1903, Brooklyn6
  • CitizenshipUnited States7

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