ROGER COURTNAYE BLISS [1905 - 1834] 5th child of Donald MacQueen Bliss and Margaret Janet Estabrooks
Roger Courtnaye Bliss, physician, was born April 5th, 1905 at Brookline Massachusetts, the second twin of that birthing. He lived for a short while in Stamford Connecticut, but, spent most of his growing years in West Orange, New Jersey. His family removed to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he graduated from high school in 1924. He obtained his medical education at Syracuse University where he met Elah Harriet Cook, who he married April 4th, 1931 at Cazenovia, New York. She was the daughter of John Willard Cook and Corlie Rhoda Eastman of Cazenovia. Elah was born in Watertown, New York, October 22nd, 1905. She also obtained her medical education at Syracuse University after completing her initial education at Cazenovia Seminary. Roger Bliss served in the military during World War II as a Captain in the Medical Corps with the Eleventh Airborne Division campaigns of Leyte and Luzon. He received a Bronze Star and the Purple Heart and attained the rank of Major. He left the military in 1946 to continue his medical practice in Hudson, New York which had been maintained by his wife Elah, who was also carrying on her own medical practice while Roger was in the service. They both practiced medicine from October 1933 to June 1971 in Hudson where he was Attending Obstetrician at Columbia Memorial Hospital for 25 years and she practiced Pediatrics. Roger also was Police Commissioner of the City of Hudson from 1950 to 1960, and fo 2 ½ years prior to his retirement in 1971 he was Chairman of the City of Hudson Housing Authority. He was instrumental in having low income housing constructed there and one of the buildings was named “Bliss Tower” in his honor. In 1972, a plaque was placed in the reference room of the Hudson Area Library honoring both Drs Roger and Elah Bliss for their contributions and effort in founding the library. In 1939 Roger was elected president of the local chapter of the Lions Club and in 1976 he was made a life member of the Red Hook Lions Club, after his retirement. During retirement Roger was an active member of the Duchess County Chapter of the American Heart Association, serving as its Public Education Committee President in 1977 and 1978. Roger was born into the Episcopal Church and he served for many years on the Vestry at Christ Church in Hudson, New York, and the Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck, New York. He, his wife and brother Gerald, removed to Ridgefield, Connecticut. Following the death of both his brother and wife, Roger removed to State College, Pennsylvania, where he died on August 17th, 1996. He was buried in Ridgebury Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut, next to his wife of 55 years. She had predeceased him on May 9th, 1986. They had three children, Bernice Harriet, David Roger and Malcolm Donald.[1]
Sources
“Genealogy of the Bliss Family” by Aaron Tyler Bliss
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↑ Source: #S9 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for David Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elah Harriet Cook
↑ Source: #S35 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M229@
↑ Source: #S9 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for David Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S34 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S34 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S36 Page: Database online. Number: 057-38-5926; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: 1963. Data: Text: Record for Roger C. Bliss
↑ Source: #S96 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S25 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Stamford Ward 3, Fairfield, Connecticut; Roll: T624_130; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0116; Image: ; FHL microfilm: 1374143. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bless Object: @M244@
↑ Source: #S38 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: West Orange Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1038; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 319; Image: 937. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss Object: @M228@
↑ Source: #S20 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S9 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for David Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S36 Page: Database online. Number: 057-38-5926; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: 1963. Data: Text: Record for Roger C. Bliss
↑ Source: #S96 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S25 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Stamford Ward 3, Fairfield, Connecticut; Roll: T624_130; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0116; Image: ; FHL microfilm: 1374143. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bless Object: @M244@
↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elah Harriet Cook
↑ Source: #S35 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M229@
↑ Source: #S9 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for David Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S34 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S34 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S38 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: West Orange Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1038; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 319; Image: 937. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss Object: @M228@
↑ Source: #S20 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S96 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elah Harriet Cook
↑ Source: #S36 Page: Database online. Number: 057-38-5926; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: 1963. Data: Text: Record for Roger C. Bliss
↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elah Harriet Cook
↑ Source: #S36 Page: Database online. Number: 057-38-5926; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: 1963. Data: Text: Record for Roger C. Bliss
↑ Source: #S96 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elah Harriet Cook
↑ Source: #S34 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S9 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for David Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S20 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S35 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Donald M Bliss Object: @M229@
↑ Source: #S9 Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Hudson, Columbia, New York; Roll: T627_2519; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 11-29. Data: Text: Record for David Bliss Object: @M209@
↑ Source: #S25 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Stamford Ward 3, Fairfield, Connecticut; Roll: T624_130; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0116; Image: ; FHL microfilm: 1374143. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bless Object: @M244@
↑ Source: #S38 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: West Orange Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1038; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 319; Image: 937. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss Object: @M228@
↑ Source: #S20 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S20 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S20 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Roger C Bliss
↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elah Harriet Cook
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