H. B. BLOOD

BLOOD

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

BLOOD, H. B., passenger agent of the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwester Railway Co. Col. Blood was born in Charlton, Worcester Co., Mass. During the late rebellion, he entered the U. S. service as Assistant Q. M. of volunteers with the Army of the Potomac; in the winter of 1864, he was appointed Chief Quartermaster of the 25th Army Corps; mustered out in November, 1865. He then engaged in the coal mining business in Pennsylvania; continued in the mining business until 1875, two years of the time in Clay Co., Ind.; the Colonel was connected with the construction of the Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Ry. in Pennsylvania ; he also superintended the construction of the road with which he is now connected from Hannibal to Louisiana, Mo.; came to Keokuk in 1876, and has held his present position since that time; he has been connected with railroad business more or less since 1858.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879