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[[File:Malone Palladium, June 2, 1887.jpg|right|thumb||Malone Palladium|, June 2, 1887]]'''Born:''' November 28, 1819

'''Died:''' April 22, 1890

'''Married:''' Never married

'''Arvilla E. Blood''' was the only sister of early Saranac Lake settler [[Orlando%20Blood|Orlando Blood]]. <span style="">The Bloods came originally from Lewis, Essex County. They had kept a hotel in Keene Center for several years but sold it in 1860 and moved to Saranac Lake. 

<span style="">There were five of them: [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Arvilla_E._Blood|Arvilla E. Blood]]<span style="">, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Ryland_Blood|Ryland]]<span style="">, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/George_Blood|George]]<span style="">, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Pascal_Blood|Pascal]]<span style=""> and Orlando. The latter was the acknowledged head of the family, and outlived them all. Arvilla gave the land for [[St.%20Luke%27s%20Church|St. Luke's Church]], and sold Dr.[[%20E.L.%20Trudeau| E.L. Trudeau]] the lot on the opposite side of [[Church%20Street|Church Street]] where he built his [[Edward%20Livingston%20Trudeau%20House%20and%20Office|house]], and later the [[Saranac%20Laboratory|Saranac Laboratory]]. She is buried in [[Pine%20Ridge%20Cemetery|Pine Ridge Cemetery]].

Writing in 1911, [[Walter%20C.%20Rice|Walter C. Rice]] commented of the Blood family, "Here I wish to pay tribute to the generosity of this family— a family with no visible profession of any religious faith, yet possessing those charming traits that sickness and distress bring into view, that are so intensely humane."

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