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Blanchard, Charles A

educator, college president, was born Nov. 8, 1848, in Galesburg, Ill. This eminent educator has been president of the Sabbath association of Illinois; president of the Iſlinois Christian association, and president of the college section of the State Teachers' association of Illinois. He is now the honored president of Wheaton college, Illinois.

Blanchard, John

educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1787, in Caledonia county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1849. He died March 8, 1849, in Columbia, S. C.

Blanchard, Jonathan

congressman. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress in 1783 and 1784.

Bland, Ballard

jurist, was born in Kentucky. He was educated for the legal profession, and while residing in Louisville was appointed United States judge for the district of Kentucky.

Bland, Bessie

poet, was born Dec. 8, 1863, in Lynn, Mass. She is a successful writer of Lynn, Mass.; and her poems have been given a place in several standard works.

Bland, Charles Clelland

soldier, jurist, was born Feb. 9, 1837, in Hartford, Ky. During the civil war he was captain of company D, Missouri infantry This eminent lawyer and volunteers. jurist was elected in 1881 as judge of the circuit court of the nineteenth judicial circuit of Missouri, which position he still holds (1898).

Bland, Richard

statesman, was born May 6, 1710, in Virginia. He was for some years a leading member of the house of burgesses, and in 1768 was one of the committee appointed to remonstrate with parliament on the subject of taxation. In 1773 he was one of the committee of correspondence, and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776. He died in 1790.

Bland, Theodoric

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1777. He was a lawyer by profession; was judge of the county court in Baltimore; judge of the United States district court of Maryland; and was twenty-two years chancellor of the state. From 1836 to 1841 he published in Baltimore, Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland. He died Nov. 16, 1846, in Annapolis, Md.

Blanden, Charles G

banker, poet, was born Jan. 19, 1857, in Marengo, Ill.

He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Tancred's Daughter and Other Poems.

Blatt, William Moses

lawyer, author, was born April 29, 1876, in Orange, N. J. He graduated from the Boston university law school; has been assistant editor of the New England Courier; librarian of the Boston university law school, and is the author of Leading and Important Cases in Massachusetts Common Law.

Blayney, Francis Scott

educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born July 31, 1856, at Iberia, Ohio. He has been president of the University of Omaha, and organized and built the Second Presbyterian church of that city, and the First Presbyterian church of Hebron, Neb.. This noted lecturer of psychology and ethics since 1890 has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Abilene, Kan.

Bleckley, Logan E

lawyer, jurist, was born July 3, 1827, in Rabun county, Ga. In 1864 he was appointed supreme court reporter; in 1875 was associate justice of the supreme court, and in 1887 was made chief justice of the supreme court.

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