Son of John Warrington Blydenburgh and Anna Eliza Newton, husband of Katherine Quinlan and father of Isabelle D. and Edgar W. Blydenburgh, Jr.

Obituary - Edgar Willis Blydenburgh, marine engineer and retired member of the Huntington Township Highway Department, passed away Saturday, August 30, at his home on Vernon Valley road after being invalided by a heart condition for the past year. A wonderful neighbor and fine friend, he will be missed by all who knew him.

Mr. Blydenburgh was born May 17, 1876 in Kings Park, one of a family of eight children of the late John W. and Annaliza Newton Blydenburgh. He attended the Kings Park schools and then followed the sea, becoming a marine engineer. On November 21, 1906, he was married to Miss Katherine Quinlan at her home on Eatons Neck. They made their home in Northport where he had come to live nine years previously.

For some time Mr. Blydenburgh conducted an ice business in Northport with his brother, Benjamin. After they sold their business, he took the position of power shovel operator with the Town Highway Department from which he retired two years ago.

He was a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Alcyone Lodge, F. & A. M. The latter organization conducted services at his home on Monday evening.

Besides his widow, there remains a son, Edgar Jr. and three grandchildren. Also two brothers, Benjamin N. Blydenburgh of Gilbert Street, former chairman of the Board of Assessors of Huntington Township and former Trustee of the Village of Northport and Clifford Blydenburgh of Jamaica, L.I. and two sisters, Mrs. L.M. Halleck of Route 25-A, Fort Salonga, and Mrs. E.P. Huntting of Suffern, N.Y.

The Rev. Lewis A. Briner, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Northport, conducted funeral services from the home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Interment was in St. Philip Neri Cemetery.

(1920 US Federal Census; Northport journal., September 05, 1947, Page 8)