Eliphalet Williams Bliss
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Eliphalet Williams Bliss April 12, 1836 Fly Creek, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 21, 1903 (aged 67) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Spouse(s) | Annie Elizabeth Metcalf Bliss |
| Children | Eva Metcalf Bliss Lane |
| Parent(s) | John Stebbins Bliss and Ruby Ann Williams Bliss |
Eliphalet Williams Bliss (April 12, 1836 – July 21, 1903) was an American manufacturer and inventor who established the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York. His company supplied the US Navy with Whitehead and Bliss-Leavitt torpedoes, as well as projectiles for its naval guns during the Spanish–American War, World War I and World War II.
Bliss was born on April 12, 1836 in Fly Creek, New York, United States, one of six children of physician John Stebbins Bliss and his wife, Ruby Ann Williams Bliss. The young Bliss was educated at public schools and at a seminary. He apprenticed at an Otsego County machine shop until he was twenty-one years of age. He later moved to New England and found work at the Parker gun factory in Meriden, Connecticut.
During the American Civil War he served as a corporal in Company I of the 3rd Connecticut Volunteers and saw action during the First Battle of Bull Run. One of his brothers, Lucien Wood Williams Bliss, served with the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he returned to New York and married Anna Elizabeth Metcalf on June 19, 1865. The following year, he relocated permanently to Brooklyn, where he was employed for a time at the Campbell Printing Press Company.
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