William Dwight Porter Bliss

Background

Bliss, William Dwight Porter was born in 1856 in Constantinople, Turkey. Son of Edwin Elisha and Isabella Holmes (Porter) Bliss.

Education

Early education in Robert College, Constantinople, and Phillips Academy, Massachusetts. Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1878. Graduate Hartford Theological Seminary, 1882, Doctor of Divinity, 1913.

Career

Congressional clergyman, Denver, Colorado, and South. Natick, Massachusetts. Deacon, 1886, priest, 1887, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector, Lee, Massachusetts, 1885, Grace Church, South. Boston, 1887-1890, Linden, Massachusetts, 1890, Church of the Carpenter, Boston, 1890-1894.

San Gabriel, California, 1898, Amityville, Long Island, 1902-1906, West Orange, New Jersey, 1910-1914, Saint Martha’s Church, New York City, 1921-1925.

Investigator for United States bureau of Labor, 1907-1909. Edited The Dawn, 1889-1896, The American Fabian, 1895-1896.

Nominee of Labor Party for Lieutenant-governor, Massachusetts, 1887. Organized 1st Christian Socialist Society in the United States, 1889.

Lecturer for Christian Social Union, 1894.

President National Social Reform Union, 1899. Secretary Garden Cities Association of America, 1907. Connected with American Institute of Social Service, 1909-1914.

Author: Hand Book of Socialism, 1895.

Studies in the Gospel of the Kingdom (with Doctor Josiah Strong). Editor: Encyclopedia of Social Reform, 1898, 1907.

In charge educational work Young Men's Christian Association among interned French and Belgian soldiers in Switzerland, 1918-1919.

Achievements

• William Dwight Porter Bliss has been listed as a noteworthy sociologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Mary Pangalo, June 30, 1884. Children: Zoe (deceased), Enid (deceased).

Father:

Edwin Elisha Bliss

Mother:

Isabella Holmes (Porter) Bliss

Spouse:

Mary Pangalo

child:

Zoe Bliss (deceased)

child:

Enid Bliss (deceased)