When Mr. Bliss was ten years old, his family moved from Rehoboth to Wrentham, Mass., where they lived until he was about sixteen and where his schooling was continued and completed. Then there occurred the incident which, as Mr. Bliss described it, "shaped the course of my future life." At the suggestion of his school teacher he took charge of a general store and post office at Walpole, Mass., for a short time, and so began his business career. He next took a position in Calvin Turner’s general store in Sharon, Mass. Oliver Ames of Boston, one of his customers, observing his efficiency, offered him a position as clerk in the store of the Oakes Ames Shovel Manufactory in North Easton, Mass., which he accepted and soon after became manager of the business at the age of nineteen. After ten years of faithful service, he purchased a large grocery business, including flour and grain, at North Bridge-water, Mass., now Brockton, receiving a loan of $2,000 from Mr. Ames. Here he built up an extensive business and acquired a good reputation as a large merchandiser. After some years he sold out his business, to enter the retail dry goods and shoe business at Foxborough, Mass., and later opened a store at Edgartown. These too he disposed of, and in 1880 he purchased a small shoe manufacturing plant in Brockton, Mass., under the firm name of L. C. Bliss & Co., where he began manufacturing men’s shoes of a high quality for the retail trade.

In September, 1893, Mr. Bliss’s son, Elmer J. Bliss, formed in Boston the firm of Bliss & Cross, under the name of the Regal Shoe Company, and opened a chain of stores in several large cities. In 1894 this firm was consolidated with that of L. C. Bliss & Co. and did business under the latter name, removing its plant from Brockton to Whitman, Mass. In 1903 the business was incorporated under the name of the Regal Shoe Co. with L. C. Bliss as President. Thus Mr. Bliss lived to find himself the senior officer of a vast and flourishing industry, with a chain of stores established from the Atlantic to the Pacific and in Europe. In his later years he took no active part in the business, arid had abundant leisure for travel and other wholesome recreations.

Mr. Bliss’s benevolences were numerous and generous. His name is honored in the "Bliss Union Chapel" of Wrentham and the Congregational Church of Rehoboth, where lie placed five Memorial windows, and secured the placing of three others by Cornelius N. Bliss of New York, who was also of Rehoboth ancestry. One of these decorative windows contains the first prayer said on the ship "Mayflower."