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Black, John

congressman. He was at one time a resident of Louisiana, but removing to Mississippi, was elected a senator in congress, from 1832 to 1838. He died Aug. 29, 1854, in Winchester, Va.

Black, John

state legislator, was born in France. He has lived in America since 1846, and in Milwaukee since 1857.

He has always been a democrat, and has twice received the party nomination for congress. He was a member of the Wisconsin state legislature; and served with distinction as mayor of Milwaukee.

Black, John

diplomatist, was born in 1792 in New York. He was for forty years a resident of Mexico, where he was a consul of the United States, and also minister resident there during the Mexican war. He died Nov. 19, 1873, in Albany, N. Y.

Black, John Fisher

soldier, broker, was born Dec. 23, 1841, in New Orleans, La. He enlisted as a private in the Louisiana guards in 1861; and attained the rank of lieutenant. In 1869 he was engaged in the cotton brokerage business; was a member of the New York Cotton exchange; and one of the organizers of the Confederate Veteran camp of New York.

Black, Samuel W

jurist, governor, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from that state an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Nebraska; and was appointed governor of that territory in 1861, remaining in office until 1867.

Black, William Henry

clergyman, college president, author, was born March 19, 1854, in Centerville, Ind. He was a graduate of the Waynesburg seminary, and has filled important pastorates in the presbyterian church. In 1890 he was elected president of the Missouri Valley college of Marshall, Mo. He is the author of God, Our Father; Womanhood; and Sermons for the Sunday School.

Blackburn, Gideon

clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 27, 1772, in Augusta county, Ga. He passed the last forty years of his life in the western states, in preaching, organizing churches, and, from 1803 to 1809, during a part of each year, in his mission to the Cherokees, establishing a school at Hywassee. He established a school in Tennessee in 1806, and from 1827 till 1830 was president of Center college, Ky. He died Aug. 23, 1838, in Carlinville, Ill.

Blackburn, Joseph C. S

lawyer, soldier, United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 1838, in Woodford county, Ky. He entered the confederate army in 1861 and served throughout the war; and resumed the practice of law in 1865. He was elected to the state legislature of Kentucky in 1871 and 1873; was elected to the house in the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses; and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat, and served during 1885-97.

Blackburn, Joseph E

druggist, state legislator, was born June 30, 1860, in Belmont county, Ohio. He attended the Ohio Normal university of Adair, which institution conferred upon him the degree of Ph. G.; and in 1887 he embarked in the drug business. He served with distinction as a member of the seventy-second Ohio general assembly as a republican from Belmont county. In 1896 he was elected state dairy and food commissioner, to which office he was reelected in 1898.

Blackburn, Luke P

statesman.

He was governor of Kentucky from 1879 to 1883.

Blackford, Isaac Newton

legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 6, 1786, in Bound Brook, N. J. He was judge of the first district court of Indiana in 1814-15; speaker of the first state legislature in 1816; judge of the supreme court of Indiana from 1819 to 1835; and judge of the United States court of claims from 1855 until his death. He died Dec. 31, 1859, in Washington, D. C.