Los Angeles County
Biographies
RUSH M.
BLODGET
Rush M. Blodget, one
of the highly-reputed attorneys of Los Angeles, California, and descended from
American colonial ancestry, was born December 3, 1881 in Youngsville,
Pennsylvania, and is a son of Spencer L. and Carra M.
(Belnap) Blodget, detailed
biographies of whom appear upon other pages of this publication. The first Blodget came to this country from Norfolk, England, in the
year 1635. In the same year the Belnaps came to
American shores from Hertfordshire, England, and Mr. Blodget’s
ancestors in both families participated in the struggle for independence.
Rush M. Blodget
was just three years old when his parents arrived in Bakersfield, California,
where his father started in the drug business. He went through the grade
schools of Bakersfield and graduated from the Kern county high school in 1899,
after which he entered Stanford University for the purpose of preparing himself
for the profession he had chosen as his life’s work. From this institution he
received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1907, and was immediately admitted to
the California state bar. He first began practice in Los Angeles with Victor T.
Watkins as the firm of Watkins & Blodget, and
this arrangement continued until 1912, a period of five years. Mr. Blodget then went into partnership with his brother, Lewis
W., who was formerly city attorney of Huntington Beach, California. The firm of
Blodget & Blodget
maintained offices in both Los Angeles and Huntington Beach. Lewis W. Blodget is now residing in Santa Ana, California, engaged
in general practice, while Rush M. Blodget continues
in the general practice of law in Los Angeles, with his offices in the Subway
Terminal building. From 1909 until 1911, he was city attorney of Huntington
Beach; in 1911-12 was in the same office in Stanton; and in 1918 assumed the
office of city attorney in Venice. He is a member of the Los Angeles Bar
Association, and of the American Bar Association.
On May 29, 1911, occurred the
marriage of Rush M. Blodget and Miss Beryl Lorena
French, who was a daughter of James Edward and Mary (Prosser) French. Mrs. Blodget, who passed away April 7, 1925, was born in Loomis,
California, was descended from pioneer families of this state, her maternal
grandparents, Robert and Rebecca (Price) Prosser, having come across the plains
in a covered wagon to Loomis in 1865. Her father, who died in 1906, was for
many years a fruit grower in Loomis, California. Mrs. Blodget
was educated in the public schools, Auburn high school, and the Los Angeles
Normal School. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Santa Monica Bay Women’s
Club. Mr. and Mrs. Blodget became the parents of one
son, Rush M. Jr., who was born in Los Angeles November 3, 1918. Mr. Blodget was later married to Miss Ruth Deeds, of Los
Angeles, and they became the parents of three sons: Arba,
Claude and David. Mrs. Ruth Blodget passed away in
1932.
Mr. Blodget
served seven years in Company G of the Sixth Regiment of the California
National Guard when he was a resident of Bakersfield. He is a member of the
Delta Chi legal fraternity, the Acacia Masonic College fraternity, and
Huntington Beach Lodge No. 181 of the Masons. He belongs also to the society,
Sons of the Revolution. In civic affairs of Los Angeles city and Los Angeles
county development Mr. Blodget has been a
public-spirited cooperator, and has won many friends by his democratic attitude
toward his fellowmen. Mr. Blodget now resides near
the foothills in Alta Canada with his four sons.
Transcribed By:
Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 149-150,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
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