Henry Ames Blood
Henry Ames Blood was an American civil servant, poet, playwright and historian. He is chiefly remembered for The History of Temple, N. H.
Blood was born in Temple, New Hampshire, the son of Ephraim Whiting and Lavinia Blood. Due to his fathers death on December 29, 1837, when he was a year and a half old, his childhood years were spent with his mothers family in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. When his mother remarried on February 9, 1842, he acquired a stepfather, Samphson Fletcher. He was educated at the New Ipswich Academy in New Ipswich, and Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1857. Afterwards he was a school teacher for a few years in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Paris, Tennessee.
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