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Blair, Samuel – Blake, Henry N

Blair, Samuel

clergyman, was born June 14, 1712, in Ireland. He was one of the original members of New Brunswick presbytery, formed in 1738, and in 1739 took charge of the church at New Londonderry, or Fogg's Manor, Pa. Shortly after his settlement there he established a seminary, at which young men were educated, some of whom were afterward prominent in the presbyterian church, among them Rev. Samuel Davies and Rev. John Rodgers. He died July 5, 1751.

Blair, Samuel

clergyman, legislator, was born in 1741 in Fogg's Manor, Pa. He was the principal founder of the English presbyterian church of Germantown, Pa., and preached gratuitously for a season. He was several times a member of the Pennsylvania assembly, and was for two years chaplain to the continental congress. He died Sept. 24, 1818, in Germantown, Pa.

Blair, Samuel S

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses.

Blair, William

merchant. About 1848, after the opening of the Illinois and Michigan canal, he closed the retail branch of his business, thus becoming the first to establish an exclusively wholesale hardware house in Chicago and being at the time the only one in the west outside of St. Louis.

Blair, William Allen

educator, lecturer, author, was born June 4, 1860, in High Point, N. C. After graduating in 1882 from Harvard university, he entered actively into educational work. In 1889 he was commissioned as state representative of the Paris exposition, and has thoroughly examined the school systems of Europe. He has been president of several societies and in 1890 became president of the People's National bank of Winston, N. C. He is the author of The History of North Carolina.

Blaisdell, H. G

governor. He was the first governor of Nevada after it became a state, and served as such from 1864 to 1869.

Blake, Clarence John

physician, inventor, journalist, was born Feb. 23, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He was president of the American Otological society in 1876-77. He has invented several surgical instruments for use in the treatment of diseases of the ear, principally the membrana tympani phonautograph.

Blake, Edward Harwood

lawyer, financier, railroad president. He had a course at Brown college and post-graduate course at Harvard. He then attended the Albany Law school; practiced law in Bangor; and was made president of the Merchants' National bank in 1887.

Blake, Eli Whitney

educator, was born April 20, 1836, in New Haven, Conn.

He has been professor of chemistry in the university of Vermont, at Cornell, at Columbia, and at Brown. He is a fellow of the American association for the Advancement of Science, and member of other scientific bodies, to whose proceedings he has frequently contributed valuable papers.

Blake, George Smith

naval officer, was born in 1803, in Worcester, Mass. In 1857-65 he was superintendent of the United States Naval academy. Soon after the civil war broke out, the academy was removed to Newport. On the reorganization of the navy in 1862 he was promoted to commodore.

Blake, Harrison G

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 17, 1818, in New Fane, Vt. He served four years in the Ohio legislature, and was president of the state senate in 1848 and 1849. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.

Blake, Henry N

jurist. In 1875 he was appointed one of the associate justices of the United States for the territory of Montana.