Blackburn, William
pioneer, was born in 1814 in Virginia. He went to California in 1845, took part as volunteer in the conquest of that country in 1846- 47, and was appointed alcalde at Santa Cruz immediately thereafter. In this office he served two years, and in 1850 was elected county judge of Santa Cruz county. He died in 1867 in California.
BLACKBURN, WILLIAM JASPER, journalist, congressman, was born July 24, 1820, in Arkansas. He was a printer, and became the editor of a newspaper in Louisiana, called the Homer Iliad; and was an occasional writer in prose and verse. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1868; and was elected a representative from Louisiana to the fortieth congress. BLACKBURN, WILLIAM MAXWELL, clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 30, 1828, in Carlisle, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman, and since 1886 has been president of Pierre university of South Dakota. Among his many works, chiefly on religion and biography, are History of the Christian Church; Geneva's Shield; Exiles of Madeira; Judas the Maccabee; The Rebel Prince; College Days of Calvin; Young Calvin in Paris; St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church; Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots; The Theban Legion; and the Uncle Alick series of juvenile tales.
BLACKFORD, EUGENE GILBERT, merchant, banker, was born Aug. 8, 1839, in Morristown, N. J. Since 1879 he has been officially connected with the restocking of lakes and streams, and the hatching of food fish, being for thirteen years president of the state fish commission.
He is president of the Bedford bank in Brooklyn.