Blackburn, Joseph C. S – Blackwood, Robert E. L
Blackburn, Joseph C. S
lawyer, soldier, United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 1838, in Woodford county, Ky. He entered the confederate army in 1861 and served throughout the war; and resumed the practice of law in 1865. He was elected to the state legislature of Kentucky in 1871 and 1873; was elected to the house in the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses; and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat, and served during 1885-97.
Blackburn, Joseph E
druggist, state legislator, was born June 30, 1860, in Belmont county, Ohio. He attended the Ohio Normal university of Adair, which institution conferred upon him the degree of Ph. G.; and in 1887 he embarked in the drug business. He served with distinction as a member of the seventy-second Ohio general assembly as a republican from Belmont county. In 1896 he was elected state dairy and food commissioner, to which office he was reelected in 1898.
Blackburn, Luke P
statesman.
He was governor of Kentucky from 1879 to 1883.
Blackburn, William
pioneer, was born in 1814 in Virginia. He went to California in 1845, took part as volunteer in the conquest of that country in 1846- 47, and was appointed alcalde at Santa Cruz immediately thereafter. In this office he served two years, and in 1850 was elected county judge of Santa Cruz county. He died in 1867 in California.
Blackburn, William Jasper
journalist, congressman, was born July 24, 1820, in Arkansas. He was a printer, and became the editor of a newspaper in Louisiana, called the Homer Iliad; and was an occasional writer in prose and verse. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1868; and was elected a representative from Louisiana to the fortieth congress.
Blackburn, William Maxwell
clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 30, 1828, in Carlisle, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman, and since 1886 has been president of Pierre university of South Dakota. Among his many works, chiefly on religion and biography, are History of the Christian Church; Geneva's Shield; Exiles of Madeira; Judas the Maccabee; The Rebel Prince; College Days of Calvin; Young Calvin in Paris; St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church; Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots; The Theban Legion; and the Uncle Alick series of juvenile tales.
Blackford, Eugene Gilbert
merchant, banker, was born Aug. 8, 1839, in Morristown, N. J. Since 1879 he has been officially connected with the restocking of lakes and streams, and the hatching of food fish, being for thirteen years president of the state fish commission.
He is president of the Bedford bank in Brooklyn.
Blackford, Isaac Newton
legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 6, 1786, in Bound Brook, N. J. He was judge of the first district court of Indiana in 1814-15; speaker of the first state legislature in 1816; judge of the supreme court of Indiana from 1819 to 1835; and judge of the United States court of claims from 1855 until his death. He died Dec. 31, 1859, in Washington, D. C.
Blackledge, William
legislator, congressman. He was for several years a member of the general assembly of North Carolina; and served that state as a representative in congress, from 1803 to 1809, and from 1811 to 1813.
He died Oct. 19, 1828, in Spring Hill, N. C.
Blackledge, William S
congressman, was born in Pitt county, N. C. He was a member of the general assembly of North Carolina; and was elected to congress from that state for the term from 1821 to 1823. He died March 21, 1857, in Newbern, N. C.
Blacklock, Thomas W
physician, surgeon, was born May 28, 1843, in Scotland. He graduated from the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa. He has been examining surgeon for three of the most prominent life insurance companies; and for several local life insurance companies. He has neld the position of health officer for several years, and is an eminent physician and surgeon of New Boston, Ill.
Blackman, George Curtis
physician, surgeon, was born April 20, 1819, in Newtown, Conn. He was a bold and skillful operator, and an able writer and lecturer. He translated and edited Vidal's Treatment on Venereal Disease; anu edited a new edition of Mott's translation of Velpeau's Surgery, with notes and additions of his own. During the war he served as army surgeon. He died July 19, 1871, in Avondale, Ohio.
Blackman, Samuel Hall
civil engineer, lawyer, state senator, was born April 6, 1814, in Aurora, Ohio. He moved to Michigan in 1842, and since 1844 has practiced law in Paw Paw. He has been a county surveyor; and for many years was a field engineer the Michigan Central and other railroads.
During 1863-64 he was member of the Michigan state senate; a delegate in the conon a stitutional convention of 1867; and a representative in the Michigan house in 1873- 74.
Blackmar, Esbon
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York, from 1648 to 1849, to fill a vacancy; and also served two years in the state assembly from Wayne county.
Blackmar, Frank Wilson
educator, author, was born Nov. 3, 1854, in Springfield, Pa. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins university, and has become very prominent in educational work.
He has been fellow in history and pontics, and instructor in history, in the Johns Hopkins university; and professor of history and sociology in the university of Kansas.
He is the author of Federal and State Aid to Higher Education in the United States; Spanish Colonization in the Southwest; Spanish Institutions in the Southwest; The Story of Human Progress; Economics for Reading Clubs and Schools; and other works, besides numerous papers and magazine articles.
Blackstone, Lorenzo
manufacturer, was born in 1819, in Branford, Conn. In 1877 his company erected the Pequot Cotton mills in Montville, Conn.
Blackstone, Timothy B
railroad president, was born March 28, 1829, in Branford, Conn. Since 1864 he has been president of the Chicago and Alton railroad.
Blackstone, William
pioneer.
It is said that he planted the first orchard in Massachusetts, and also the first in Rhode Island. Although the first white settler of Rhode Island, he took no part in founding the colony.
Blackwell, Andrew Jackson
soldier, railroad president, was born Jan. 29, 1842, in Georgia. He entered the confederate army in the third Georgia volunteers. In 1882 he took up a site at what is now Blackwell, on the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma territory, a location not at the time highly prized by others. He has been its mayor and justice of the peace.
He also founded the town of Rock Falls, O. T.; and he is president of the North Oklahoma railroad.
Blackwell, Mrs. Antoinette Louisa
minister, author, was born May 20, 1825, in Henrietta, N. Y. She is a unitarian minister prominent in the woman suffrage movement; and is the author of Studies in General Science; The Market Woman; The Island Neighbors: a novel of American life; The Sexes Throughout Nature; The Physical Basis of Immortality; and The Many and The One.
Blackwell, Elizabeth
physician, author, was born Feb. 3, 1821, in Bristol, England. She is a physician of New York city, who, with her sister Emily, organized the woman's medical college of the New York infirmary. She is the author of Laws of Life, or the Physical Education of Girls; Counsel to Parents in the Moral Education of Their Children; and Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women.
Blackwell, James Heyward
educator, was born Feb. 5, 1862, in Marion, Va. He is an expert penman and professor of mathematics. He has taught in many leading educational institutions, and since 1888 has been principal of the public high school of Manchester, Va.
Blackwell, Julius W
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee, from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845.
Blackwell, Lucy Stone
abolitionist, was born Aug. 13, 1818, in West Brookfield, Mass. By hard work between the hours of study she educated herself at Oberlin college; graduated with high honors and became an agent and lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery society, in which capacity she often pleaded for the rights of women as well as for those of the slave. In 1855 she was married to Henry B. Blackwell, but still retained her maiden name. She died Oct. 18, 1893, in Dorchester, Mass.
Blackwell, Sarah Ellen
artist, author, was born in 1828 in England.
She is a successful writer, and the author of The Life of Anna Ella Carroll. Her especial subjects of interest are land and, labor reform, woman suffrage, and anti-vivisection.
Blackwood, Robert E. L
educator, lawyer, was born Feb. 3, 1865, in Cabell county, W. Va. He graduated from the state university of West Virginia with the degree of B. L. For many years he has been engaged in educational work; and is now successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Charleston, W. Va.