Henry Ames Blood
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Henry Ames Blood, from the frontispiece of Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood (1901).
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| Born |
June 7, 1836 Temple, New Hampshire |
| Died | December 30, 1900 (aged 64) Washington, D.C. |
| Occupation | Civil servant, poet, playwright, historian, critic |
| Nationality | United States |
| Period | 1860–1900 |
| Notable works |
The History of Temple, N. H. Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood |
Henry Ames Blood (June 7, 1836 – December 30, 1900) 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 (Ames) Blood. Due to his father's death on December 29, 1837, when he was a year and a half old, his childhood years were spent with his mother's 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.
About 1861 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he was employed for most of his adult life, to accept a clerkship in the Internal Revenue Department. After a short service there he was transferred to the Department of State, in the employ of which he long remained. He also worked for the Bureau of the Census and the Department of the Treasury.
As a young government worker in Washington, D.C., Blood was in the city at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. His letters to his mother on the aftermath of the assassination and the trial of the conspirators were discovered in 2005 in one of the homes of Robert Todd Lincoln, and reveal an interesting impression of contemporary public sentiment concerning the events.
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