BIOGRAPHY OF MRS. EMMA (BLOOD) FRENCH of Manchester NH
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SOURCE: One Thousand New Hampshire Notables: Brief Biographical Sketches of
New Hampshire Men and Women, by Frances Matilda Abbott, 1919, Rumford Printing
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EMMA (BLOOD) FRENCH
Philanthropist, b. Manchester NH, Oct 15, 1863, daughter of Aretas and Lavinia
(Kendall) Blood; educated in the Manchester schools and at Dr. Gannett's boarding-
school, Chester Square, Boston, Mass.; m. Dr. L. Melville French of Manchester,
June 1, 1887 (d. Dec. 21, 1914); daughter, Margaret Lavinia, b. April 20, 1888,
m. Carl Spencer Fuller of Manchester, June 9, 1910; grandchildren, Mary Spencer, 
1911, and Henry Melville 1914. In 1916 Mrs. French erected and endowed a building
for the Institute of Arts and Sciences, an institution in which she had long been
interested. This building is adjacent to the Carpenter Library, erected in memory of
her sister, Elenora Blood Carpenter, by the latter's husband, Frank B. Carpenter.
With Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs. French gave the maternity and children's ward to the Eliot
Hospital and endowed it; and in 1918 Mrs. French built and endowed the L. Melville
French children's ward for the same hospital.  Mrs. French started the first
Shakespeare Club in Manchester 1872; president of the Woman's Aid and Relief Home,
founded by her parents 1899-; vice-president Pembroke Sanitarium; director, District
Nursing Ass'n; member, Franklin Street Congregational church, N.H. Soc. of Colonial
Dames, D.A.R. Board of Council of the Manchester Institute, Y.M.C.A., Children's
Home, Red Cross, Navy League, Y.W.C.A. War Relief (patron), N.H. Memorial Hospital
for WOmen and Children at Concord. Residence, North River Road Manchester, and
Little Boar's Head, N.H.

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