Last week, we showed you a photo of a farm in Concord. Did you guess correctly who it belonged to?
The mystery multitasker in the Dec. 8 Insider is Dr. Robert O. Blood, a Republican who served two terms as governor of New Hampshire in 1941 and 1943, was born in 1887 and attended Dartmouth College. Blood also owned the dairy farm on Mountain Road in last week’s picture.
Blood was one of the founders of the Concord Dairy cooperative, which distributed milk to residents according to “Crosscurrents of Change,” the history of Concord in the 20th century that is being written by the Concord Historical Society. For 56 years, Blood, a surgeon, had a practice on State Street and treated patients at Concord Hospital.
As governor, Blood eliminated the state deficit and created the two-year budgeting cycle. He set up the classification system for state employees and established committees to deal with such wartime issues as rationing and other defense-related issues. He died in 1975.
For more information about this interesting Concord resident, see nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/ glikeness/bloorobe.html or wait for publication of “Crosscurrents of Change” in 2010.
