John McKnight Bloss

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Birth: Jun. 21, 1839 Washington County Indiana, USA Death: May 26, 1905 Delaware County Indiana, USA

Civil War Union Army Soldier. During the Civil War, was one of the finders of the famous 'Lee's Lost Dispatch' (also known as Special Order #191) prior to the Battle of Antietam while serving as a Sergeant in the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Later in life he served as the third President of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). (bio by: Northhouse)

Burial: Beech Grove Cemetery Muncie Delaware County Indiana, USA Plot: Section 28

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ID: I21220 Name: John McKnight BLOSS Pres. Sex: M Birth: 1839 Event: Came to Oregon BEF 1892 Corvallis Death: 1905 in Muncie, IN Note:
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John McKnight Bloss (1839-1905) served as President of Oregon Agricultural College from 1892 until 1896. He entered Hanover College (Indiana) in 1854 and received an A.B. degree with honors in 1860; in 1864-1865 he studied medicine at Ohio Medical College in Cincinatti.
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Bloss fought with the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry in General McClellan's Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. On the morning of September 13th, 1862, Sergeant Bloss found what would later be known as "Lee's Lost Dispatch" (Special Order 191) giving detailed Confederate troop movements. Bloss recognized the importance of this find and forwarded it through the chain of command to General McClellan. Bloss fought and was wounded in several battles, including Antietam, before he resigned in 1864.
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His career in education included serving as a teacher; principal; superintendent of the city schools of Evansville (1875-1880) and Muncie (1883-1886), Indiana and Topeka, Kansas (1886-1892); and the State Superintendent for Public Instruction for Indiana (1880- 1882).
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In April 1892 he was selected as the third president of Oregon Agricultural College. In addition to his duties as President of the College and Director of the Experiment Station, he was appointed as Professor of Mental and Moral Science and taught courses in political economy, psychology, and ethics.
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He resigned from the College in 1896 due to failing health and returned to his farm north of Muncie, Indiana where he remained until his death in 1905. During his retirement, he established the first consolidated school (Royerton) west of the Allegheny Mountains in his home township of Hamilton. Bloss married Emma L. McPheeters in 1865 and had 2 children, Nannie (b. 1866) and William H. (Will, b. 1869). His first wife died of typhoid in Topeka, Kansas and Bloss married Mary A. Woods in 1893, while the College President.
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Nannie Bloss accompanied her father to Corvallis in 1892 and later married Dumont Lotz, who was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry (1891-1892) and Station Chemist (1892-1893) at OAC.
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President Bloss' son, Will, spent 1893-1894 in Corvallis. Although not enrolled as a student, he coached and quarterbacked the first college football team (1893), sang first baritone with the College Quartette, and coached the college baseball team the following spring (1894). After 3 years of service in the U.S. Army at Vancouver, Washington, he returned to Corvallis in 1897 and coached the championship 1897 football team.
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IS THIS HIM??? Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography page 124 BLOSS, JOHN M., soldier, educator, was born Jan. 21, 1839, in Washington county, Ind. He was a private in the twenty-seventh regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, company F. He has been an active member in county institutes, and has been president of the State Teachers' association. Contact: Norris N Dunn Name: John McKnight BLOSS Birth: 21 JAN 1839 in Oneida, New York Death: 26 APR 1905 Event: Information source "Bloss Genealogy" by Richard R. Bloss, Beaumont, Texas; 1959 Father: Isaac Scott BLOSS b: 21 APR 1817 in Tioga Co., Pennsylvania Mother: Agnes A. McKNIGHT b: 28 JUL 1820 Marriage 1 Emma L. Mc Phiters Event: Single 1865 Children Nannie Bloss b: 15 OCT 1866 in Livonia, Washington, Indiana William H Bloss Marriage 2 Agnes Mc Knight Event: Other-Begin 1893
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Marriage 1 Mary A. WOODS Married: 1893

Marriage 2 Emma L. McPheeters Married: 1865 Children Has No Children Nanncie BLOSS b: 1866 Has No Children William H. BLOSS b: 1869