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Blake, James – Blanchard, Amy Ella
Blake, James
soldier, public official, was born March 3, 1791, in York county, Pa. He enlisted as a volunteer in the war of 1812. For thirty-five years he was the president of the Indianapolis Benevolent society.
Blake, James Vila
clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in New York. He is a unitarian clergyman of Chicago; and the author of Poems; Essays; A Grateful Spirit; Anchor of the Soul; St. Solifer; and Legends from Story Land.
Blake, John
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York state from 1805 to 1809; and was a member of the New York assembly in 1819.
Blake, John B
financier, was born Aug. 12, 1802, in Colchester, Va. He was commissioner of public buildings during a part of the administration of President Pierce, and during the whole of that of President Buchanan. For many years he was president of the National Metropolitan bank of Washington city; and was connected with the board of public works in Washington.
Blake, John B
railroad president, was born May 16, 1838, in Marlboro, Vt.
Since 1892 he has been president of the West Virginia, Pineville and Tennessee railroad.
Blake, John Lauris
educator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 21, 1788, in Northwood, N. H. He was an episcopal clergyman of Boston long prominent as an educator. He was the author of Text Book of Geography and Chronology; Family Encyclopædia of Agriculture and Domestic Economy; Farmer's Every-Day Book; Modern Farmer; Letters on Confirmation; General Biographical Dictionary; Book of Nature Laid Open; Wonders of the Earth; and Wonders of Art. He died July 6, 1857, in Orange, N. J.
Blake, John L
lawyer, congressman, was born March 25, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He removed to Orange, N. J., when fifteen years of age, and studied and practiced law. He was a member of the house of assembly in 1857; was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876, and a candidate for presidential elector in the same year. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-sixth congress.
Blake, John Walter
banker, was born Aug. 6, 1858, in Leon county, Texas.
He is prominently identified with the public affairs of his native state; was mayor of Mexico in 1895; president of the Texas Bankers' association in 1891, and has filled various other public offices of honor.
Blake, Upton Clarence
lawyer, was born Sept. 2, 1845, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. In 1865 he graduated from Kenyon college of Gambier, Ohio, and has since attained prominence as an able and learned lawyer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Blakesley, Louis William
journalist, was born April 8, 1868, in Lafayette, Ill. In 1885 he moved to Logan, Kan., and subsequently taught school in that state. In 1890 he moved to Wyoming, and during 1892-93 was principal of the Lander high school. In 1893 he founded The Otto Courier, of which he is the editor and owner. In 1896 he was appointed by Governor Richards as one of the commissioners to organize the county of Big Horn, Wyo.
Blanchard, Albert G
soldier, was born in 1810 in Charlestown, Mass.
During the Mexican war he served as captain of Louisiana volunteers, being at the battle of Monterey and the siege of Vera Cruz. At the beginning of the civil war, in 1861, he was made a brigadier-general in the confederate army. Since the war General Blanchard has been a civil engineer and surveyor in New Orleans.
Blanchard, Amy Ella
author, was born in Baltimore, Md. For several years she taught school; then took up the study of art; and in 1881, in conjunction with Ida Waugh, published her first book, entitled Holly Berries. She has since made a specialty of works for young people, more particularly for girls; and her best known works are Twenty Little Maidens; Taking a Stand; and the Blanchard Library For Girls, consisting of Two Girls, Girls Together, and Betsy of Wye.