Blake, Joseph
governor, was born about 1620. He was governor of South Carolina, in 1694, and from 1696 to his death in 1700.
BLAKE, MRS. LILLIE DEVEREUX, reformer, author, was born Aug. 12, 1835, in Raleigh, N. C. She is a prominent advocate of woman suffrage, and is the author of Fettered for Life; Southwold; Rockford; Woman's Place To-Day; and The Hypocrite, or Sketches of American Society.
HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN EIOGRAPHY.
BLAKE, MRS. MARY ELIZABETH, author, poet, was born in 1840 in Iowa.
She is the author of Poems; Youth in Twelve Centuries; Verses by the Way.
Her prose includes On the Wing, sketches of American Travel; A Summer Holiday; travel experiences in Europe; Mexico:
Picturesque, Political and Progressive.
BLAKE, THOMAS HOLDSWORTH, congressman, was born June, 1792, in Calvert county, Md. He served at the battle of Bladensburg, in 1814. For many years he was a member of the Indiana state legislature, and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1827 to 1829. Under President Tyler's administration he was commissioner of the general land office, and upon his resignation was appointed president of the Wabash and Erie Canal company. He died Nov. 28, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio.