This is the home of a man who was multitasking before the word was invented. He was a dairy farmer and a founder of the Concord Dairy cooperative that marketed milk produced by city farmers. He was a doctor who had a practice on State Street and at the newly merged Concord Hospital. And he led New Hampshire through World War II. Who is it?

This photo is one of the many pictures of times gone by in Concord that will be in "Crosscurrents of Change," Concord Historical Society's history of the capital city in the 20th century that will be published next year.

The mystery multitasker in the Dec. 8 Insider is Dr. Robert O. Blood, a Republican who served two terms as governor of New Hampshire in 1941 and 1943, was born in 1887 and attended Dartmouth College. Blood also owned the dairy farm on Mountain Road in last week's picture.

Blood was one of the founders of the Concord Dairy cooperative, which distributed milk to residents according to Crosscurrents of Change, the history of Concord in the 20th century that is being written by the Concord Historical Society. For 56 years, Blood, a surgeon, had a own practice on State Street and treated patients at Concord Hospital.

As governor, Blood eliminated the state deficit and created the current two-year budgeting cycle. He set up the classification system for state employees and established committees to deal with such wartime issues as rationing and other defense-related issues. He died in 1975.

For more information about this interesting Concord citizen, see http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/glikeness/bloorobe.html or wait for publication of Crosscurrents of Change in 2010.