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Blakeman, Alex. Noel

journalist, was born July 18, 1840, in New York city.

He received the rudiments of his education in the ward schools of New York city, and graduated from the College of the City of New York. During 1861-65 he was acting assistant-paymaster in the United States navy. He is the editor of the New York Shipping and Commercial List; president of the board of education of Mount Vernon, N. Y., since 1890; recorder of the New York Commandery Loyal Legion of the U. S., and was chief of staff under Grand Marshal Horace Porter in the inaugural parade at Washington on March 4, 1897. BLAKESLEE, JAMES I., railroad president, was born Feb. 10, 1815, in Susquehanna county, Pa. Since 1870 he has been president of the Montrose railroad at Mauch Chunk, Pa.