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Show FRIEND OF THE WOMEN Judge Biodgett, Who Originated Orig-inated Separate Control Con-trol Law, Is Dead. CHICAGO. Feb. .Former Federal District Judge Henry W. Blodgett died today of old age at his home in Wauke-gan. Wauke-gan. 111., aged 84 years. . He was closely identified with the building of the first railway line between be-tween Chicago and Milwaukee. : He waa a, member of the sanitary commls-sion commls-sion during the Civil war. . While a member of the Illinois Legislature Legis-lature Judge Blodgett originated and put through a bill giving married women wo-men control of their separate property. It was the pioneer legislation of that kind anywhere in the United States, and has since been universally adopted in almost every State In the Union. . In 1882 Judge Blodgett resigned from the bench to accept an appointment by President Harrison as one of the counsel coun-sel for the United States in the Bering sea arbitration. v |