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Wheeler Peckham Bloodgood, lawyer, was born in Milwaukee, November 4, 1871. His parents were Francis and Josephine M. (Colt) Bloodgood. He is a member of the firm of Bloodgood, Kemper & Bloodgood, established in 1854 by his father, Francis Bloodgood, and Wheeler H. Peckham, later of the New York bar. He studied law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1894 and later to the supreme court of the United States. The firm is general counsel in Wisconsin for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Company, and represents many other corporate interests.

On the 14th of September, 1896, Mr. Bloodgood married Elizabeth Twombly Farrand of Detroit, daughter of a well-known surgeon and physician of Detroit. There are four children: Francis J., now a student at the University of Wisconsin, who enlisted at the age of nineteen years and served with the Thirty-second Division; David Wheeler, the second son, who also attended the University of Wisconsin, and who enlisted at the age of eighteen years. He also served with the Thirty-second Division, and was wounded in the Argonne on the 19th of October, 1918; Hugh McClellan; and Elizabeth.

Mr. Bloodgood is a former vestryman and a member of St. Paul's church of Milwaukee. He is a member of the Milwaukee Club, the Milwaukee Athletic Club, Town and City Clubs of Milwaukee, Oconomowoc Country Club, Oconomowoc Yacht Club, Union League Club of Chicago, City Club of New York and the Madison Club, at Madison, Wisconsin. He is a Mason, a member of Lafayette Lodge, A. F. «fc A. M., of Milwaukee, Calumet Chapter, No. 73, R. A. M., and Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 24, K. T.

Mr. Bloodgood is a member of the American Bar Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association and the Milwaukee Bar Association. He was the chairman of the Wisconsin Defense League, the first war organization formed in America. He is a member of the executive committee of The National Civic Federation and is active in the affairs of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is the author of a paper entitled, The Third Line of German Defense and Offense in this Country, and of many other papers on labor and social problems.