I've been researching, and even as a kid I was told that P. P. Bliss was a well-known hymn writer(I loved his hymns and played or sang them all the time). So Philip IS the Bliss as written of above. Found this reference all over the Internet plus my grandmother Bliss-Reese told me about it. I think PP Bliss was a cousin to my greatgrandfather P. Bliss.