CORNELIUS

See also:

• NEWTON
• NEWTON, ALFRED (1829–1907)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1725-1807)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1823-1895)
• NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (1816-1894)
• NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727)

NEWTON

See also:

• CORNELIUS NEWTON BLISS (1833– )

BLISS (1833– )  , American merchant and politician, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, on the 26th of January 1833 . He was educated in his native city and in New Orleans, where he early entered his step-father's counting-house . Returning to Massachusetts in 1849, he became a clerk and subsequently a junior partner in a prominent Boston commercial house . Later he removed to New York City to establish a branch of the firm . In 1881 he organized and became president of Bliss, Fabyan & Company, one of the largest wholesale dry-goods houses in the country . A consistent advocate of the protective tariff, he was one of the organizers, and for many years president, of the American Protective Tariff League . In politics an active Republican, he was chair-man of the Republican state committee in 1887 and 1888, and contributed much to the success of the Harrison ticket in New York in the latter year . He was treasurer of the Republican national committee from 1892 to 1904, and Was secretary of the interior in President McKinley's cabinet from 1897 to 1899 .