Blake, Ellyn J
educator, scientist, was born Nov. 7, 1842, in Wilbraham, Mass. She graduated from the Wesleyan academy of her native city; and for many years was engaged in educational work at Wilbraham and Palmer, Mass. In 1886 she began the treatment of hypertrichosis with electricity, and was the first woman to take legitimate instruction and make a specialty of the work.
BLAKE, MRS. EUPHEMIA VALE, journalist, author, poet, was born May 7, 1825, near Hastings, England. Her father, Gilbert Vale, was well known as an author, publisher, inventor, public lec turer and professor of astronomy and mathematics, who died in 1866 in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs.
Blake has written extensively for the North American Review, the Christian Examiner, the Boston Transcript, and other well-known publications. Since 1857 she has lived in Brooklyn, N. Y., engaged in journalism.
She is the author of Arctic Experiences; Teeth, Ether and Chloroform; History of Newburyport; and her latest work is A History of Tammany Hall, from its organization in 1789 to the present time. BLAKE, GEORGE A. H., soldier, was born in September, 1812, in Pennsylvania.
He served in the Seminole, Mexican and civil wars, and attained the rank of brigadier-general.