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Blackstone, William

pioneer.

It is said that he planted the first orchard in Massachusetts, and also the first in Rhode Island. Although the first white settler of Rhode Island, he took no part in founding the colony.

BLACKWELL, ANDREW JACKSON, soldier, railroad president, was born Jan. 29, 1842, in Georgia. He entered the confederate army in the third Georgia volunteers. In 1882 he took up a site at what is now Blackwell, on the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma territory, a location not at the time highly prized by others. He has been its mayor and justice of the peace.

He also founded the town of Rock Falls, O. T.; and he is president of the North Oklahoma railroad.

BLACKWELL, MRS. ANTOINETTE LOUISA, minister, author, was born May 20, 1825, in Henrietta, N. Y. She is a unitarian minister prominent in the woman suffrage movement; and is the author of Studies in General Science; The Market Woman; The Island Neighbors: a novel of American life; The Sexes Throughout Nature; The Physical Basis of Immortality; and The Many and The One.