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Birth:          3 Dec 1881 Youngsville, Warren Co., Pa.
Death:          14 Aug 1963 Redding, Cal.

Notes
rootsweb
info from Mary Gail (from Blodgett book)
1952 living in La Canada, Cal., then moved to Los Angeles, Cal.
1900 in Bakersfield, Kern Co., Cal. clerk for land co.
1910 in Huntington Beach, Orange Co., Cal. attorney at law for the city
1920 in Venice, Los Angeles Co., Cal. lawyer in general practice
1930 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co., Cal. attorney on oil cases

from http://www.bliley.net/family/Darius_Mead/bio/index.html
Brief Biography of Rush M. Blodget, Sr.
Author of Darius Mead Story
By Rush Maxwell Blodget, Junior
November 2003

Rush M. Blodget, Sr., was born on December 3, 1881 in a house on the bank of the 
Brokenstraw Creek in Youngsville, Pennsylvania. During his life he spoke nostalgically 
and often of the beautiful Brokenstraw Creek.

His father, Spencer Langdon Blodget, who had resigned from the U.S. Naval Academy 
at Annapolis after completing his second year (he didn't flunk out) took his young 
family of Claude, Percy, and Rush to Bakersfield, California where two more sons, 
Ward and Lewis, and a daughter, Marian, were born. Spencer Langdon Blodget went 
to work in a drugstore and after several years bought the store and was later licensed 
as a pharmacist when a state pharmacy law was enacted. A younger sister and brother 
died in infancy and his mother died in childbirth with Lewis, the last born son.

The sons went to college, in turn working to send money to the others. Claude, Percy, 
Rush, and Ward attended Stanford University which at that time had no tuition or 
student body fees. Rush Blodget graduated from the Stanford Law School in 1907 
following which he located in Southern California. He was engaged for a time in the 
general practice of law; later he became vice-president and general counsel for the 
George F. Getty Oil Company (predecessor to the Getty Oil Company) and after the 
death of George F. Getty became general manager during a period when J. Paul 
Getty's was living in Europe. He left the Getty Company in 1932 to become executive 
vice president and manager of an oil industry trade association where he remained 
until his retirement in 1952.

Rush M. Blodget had a son, Rush M. Blodget, Jr., by his first wife, Beryl French, who 
died in 1926. He had three more sons, Arba, Claude, and David, by his second wife, 
Ruth Deeds, who died in 1932 when David, the youngest, was a year old. Rush, Arba, 
and Claude live in Northern California and David lives in the state of Washington.

Mr. Blodget's lifetime hobbies were history and genealogy. He obtained a great deal of 
his genealogical data from older surviving relatives who passed on to him old family 
letters and photos.

Rush Blodget's great grandmother was Elizabeth Mead who married Philo Guernsey 
Belnap, a river rafter, whose son, Archimedes Madison Belnap, married Ellen Fletcher, 
whose daughter Carra Myrtle Belnap, was the mother of Rush M. Blodget.

The "Drama of Darius Mead" was prepared by him in 1937 for his cousin, Leota 
Whitehill Day, for the occasion of the Mead Family Reunion

Parents
BLODGETT Spencer Langdon (7 May 1858 - 29 Dec 1934)
BELNAP Cara Myrtle (9 Feb 1860 - 4 Dec 1893)

Siblings
BLODGETT Claude Raymond (21 Jul 1878 - 29 Sep 1972)
BLODGETT Percy Langdon (24 May 1880 - 6 Dec 1967)
BLODGETT Rush Maxwell (3 Dec 1881 - 14 Aug 1963)
BLODGETT Don Archimedes (29 Sep 1886 - 28 Apr 1888)
BLODGETT Marian Bernice (10 Mar 1888 - 7 May 1955)
BLODGETT Stella Cara (12 Aug 1889 - 16 Aug 1893)
BLODGETT Ward Belnap (29 Dec 1890 - 23 Jul 1972)
BLODGETT Lewis William (27 Nov 1893 - 26 Mar 1973)

Marriage To FRENCH Beryl Lorna (13 Dec 1883 - 1926)
    m. 29 May 1911 

Notes

Parents
FRENCH James E. ()
PROSSER Mary S. ()

Children by FRENCH Beryl Lorna 13 Dec 1883 - 1926
BLODGETT Rush Maxwell (3 Nov 1918 - )

Marriage To DEEDS Ruth Venita (17 Dec 1902 - 2 Jan 1932)
    m. 29 May 1926 Riverside, Cal.

Notes

Parents
DEEDS Dudley Elisha ()
SNODDY Edna ()

Children by DEEDS Ruth Venita 17 Dec 1902 - 2 Jan 1932
BLODGETT Arba Spencer Deeds ()
BLODGETT Dudley Claude ()
BLODGETT David Percy ()

Marriage To BROMLEY Frances (19 Dec 1902 - )
    m. 15 Aug 1945 

Notes

Parents
BROMLEY George ()
O'BRIEN Mary ()

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