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Bliss (CORNELIUS NEWTON an American)

CORNELIUS NEWTON, an American merchant, born in Fall River, Mass., Jan. 26, 1833; was educated in New Orleans; engaged first in commission business, in Boston, and became head BLISS of the dry goods commission house of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., New York City, in 1881. He was a member of the Pan- American Conference; Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee in 1877-1878; and Treasurer of the National Republican Committee in 1892 and 1896; declined to be a candidate for Governor of New York in 1884 and 1891; and was Secretary of the Interior Department in President McKinley's cabinet in 1897-1898. Treasurer National Republican Committec, 1900 and 1904. He died in 1911.