Résumé

Draftsman, Bliss and Faville, Architects, San Francisco, CA, c. 1919; Bliss worked for Bliss and Faville until the mid-1920s, when the firm disbanded. The onset of the Depression ruined opportunities for most architects, particularly those associated with the discredited Beaux-Arts architectural methods. He became a stock broker in the 1930s. He later became a manager of a Bliss Family property, the Glenbrook Inn, Glenbrook, NV.

College

B.S.Arch., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1917.

Relocation

When his uncle Walter Danforth Bliss died in 1956, Will M. Bliss resided at 33 Dormidera Avenue in Piedmont, CA.

Parents

His father was William Seth Bliss (1865-1941), a civil engineer by training, who operated the family businesses, a main interest being the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, located in Carson City, NV. (The Bliss Family, descending from Duane Leroy Bliss (1833-1907), owned the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, Glenbrook Company, Glenbrook Hotel Company, Glenbrook Improvement Company, Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company, Barr Realty Company, Sierra Realty Company, and Nevada Lumber Company.) An uncle, Walter Danforth Bliss (1872-1956) was a partner in the prestigious San Francisco architectural firm, Bliss and Faville, with whom William M. Bliss started his career. William Seth Bliss married Mabel Williams of Empire, NV, in 1892. Mabel died on 04/28/1894, eleven days after giving birth to William M. (See "A Guide to the Records of William W. Bliss Collection No. 96-53," University of Nevada, Reno, Library, Special Collections and University Archives Department,Accessed 10/10/2013.)

Spouse

Will M. Bliss married Hatherly Brittain in 1932;.

Children

William M. Bliss and Hatherly Brittain had two offspring: Hatherly (Sis) and William W. Bliss.