Blackwood, William G – Blair, John
Blackwood, William G
jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He settled in Missouri, from which state he was appointed a justice of the United States court for the territory of New Mexico.
Bladen, Thomas
governor of Maryland, lived in the eighteenth century. During his administration the western boundary of the province was fixed by treaty with the Indians, and the manufacture of flour began to attract the attention of the government.
Blaikie, William
lawyer, author, was born May 24, 1843, in York, N. Y.
He is a lawyer and athlete of New York city; and the author of How to Get Strong; and Sound Bodies for Our Boys and Girls.
Blaine, Harry Gordon
physician, educator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1858, in Wheeling, W. Va. He received his education in the public schools of Attica, Ohio; at the Northwestern Normal university of Fostoria, and the Republic academy. In 1884 he founded the American Medical Compend, of which he was editor and owner for the ten succeeding years. During 1885-92 he was professor of diseases of the mind and nervous system in the Toledo Medical college. He is the author of The Physician: His Relation to the Law; A Manual on Venereal Diseases; Blaine's Medical Footprints; and other works.
Blaine, James Gillespie
statesman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1830, in Washington county, Pa. He graduated at Washington college in 1847; adopted the profession of an editor; removed to Maine; and edited the Kennebec Journal and Portland Advertiser for several years. He served four years in the Maine legislature, two years as speaker of the house. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirtyeighth congress, serving as a member of the committee on post offices and post roads. Re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress, serving on the committee on military affairs, the special committee on the death of President Lincoln, and as chairman of the committee on the war debts of the loyal states. He was reelected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses, and made speaker of the house, holding the same position during the forty-second and forty-third congresses.
He was also re-elected to the forty-fourth congress; and in 1876 was elected United States senator, to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1883.
He resigned in 1881, to accept the post of secretary of state in the cabinet of President Garfield, serving from March until December of that year. He was an unsuccessful candidate for president of the United States in 1884. He was the author of Twenty Years of Congress. He died Jan. 27, 1893, in Washington, D. C.
Blaine, Walker
diplomatist, was a resident of Maine. He received a collegiate education; and in 1881 wasappointed third assistant secretary of state. The same year he was sent, in conjunction with W. H. Triscott, as a special envoy to Peru and Chili.
Blair, Albert G
railroad president, was born in January, 1844, in Syracuse, N. Y. Since 1896 he has been president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway at Toledo, Ohio. a
Blair, Andrew Alexander
chemist, author, was born Sept. 20, 1846, in Woodford county, Ky. He is chemist of Philadelphia; and the author of The Chemical Analysis of Iron; and Methods in Analysis of Iron, Steel, Copper, and Alloys of Copper, Zinc, and Tin.
Blair, Austin
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 8, 1818, in Caroline, N. Y. After holding the local offices of county clerk and prosecuting attorney for his county, he was elected to the Michigan, legislature, and afterwards to the senate of the state. He was governor of Michigan from 1861 to 1865; and was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth, forty-first and fortysecond congresses.
Blair, Barnard
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.
Blair, Chauncey B
banker, was born June 18, 1810, in Bianford, Mass. In 1861 he removed to Chicago, and established a private bank, which in 1865 he organized into the Merchants' National bank, becoming its president, which office he held until his death. He died Jan. 30, 1890.
Blair, Mrs. Eliza
(NELSON), author, was born in New Hampshire. She is a writer of Manchester, N. H. Her novel, 'Lisbeth Wilson, gives an excellent picture of New Hampshire rural life a half century ago.
Blair, Francis Reston
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1821, in Lexington, Ky. He adopted the profession of the law; and was a member of the Missouri legislature in 1852-54. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh congresses. He was a colonel of volunteers in 1861; in 1862 was appointed a major-general in the army, and was subsequently re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. In 1868 he was nominated for vice-president of the United States on the ticket with Horatio Seymour, and was defeated. He was a senator in congress to fill a vacancy in 1871-73. In 1848 he published the Life and Public Services of General William A.
Butler. He died July 8, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo.
Blair, Henry William
was born Dec. 6, 1834, in Campton, N. H. He received an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859; and was prosecuting attorney for Grafton county in 1860. He served in the union army as lieutenantcolonel during the war of the rebellion.
He was a representative in the state legislature in 1866, and a state senator in 1867 and 1868. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the forty-fourth and fortyfifth congresses; declined a renomination; and was elected a senator of the United States from New Hampshire, for the term of six years; and in 1885 was re-elected for a second term. He also served in the fifty-third congress.
Blair, Hugh M
educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 9, 1853, in Caldwell county, N. C. He graduated from the Rutherford college, and then commenced educational work. He was principal of the Hickory high school during 1876-81; and for awhile was editor of the Western Carolinian, of Hickory, N. C. In 1883 he entered the ministry of the methodist episcopal church south. In 1895 he became editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate; and in 1896 was made presiding elder in the western North Carolina conference.
Blair, Jacob B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 11, 1821, in Parkersburg, Va. He was prosecuting attorney for Ritchie county for several years; was elected a representative from Virginia to the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1863 was elected a representative from the new state of West Virginia to the thirty-eighth congress. In 1867 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; and was United States minister to Costa Rica from 1868 to 1872. 1876 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Wyoming territory, and was reappointed in 1880, and again in 1884.
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Blair, James
congressman, was born in Lancaster, S. C. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1821 to 1822, and from 1829 to 1834. He died by his own hand April 1, 1834, in Washington, D. C.
Blair, James
clergyman, college president, was born in 1656 in Lancaster, S. C. He was an episcopal clergyman of Virginia who founded William and Mary college, and was its president for fifty years. He was the author of The State of His Majesty's Colony in Virginia; and Our Savior's Divine Sermon on the Mount, a series of sermons. He died Aug. 1, 1743, in Williamsburg, Va.
Blair, James
banker, was born May 15, 1807, in Beaver Brooks, N. J. Among the properties in which he now has a large interest are The Lackawanna and Iron Steel Co.; The Belvidere National bank; The Scranton Savings bank, of which he is president; and The First National bank of Scranton.
Blair, James G
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1828. He received a common English education; is a lawyer by profession, and was elected to the forty-second congress as a liberal republican.
Blair, John
statesman, congressman, was born in Washington county, Tenn. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1823 to 1837. Before entering congress he served in both branches of the Tennessee state legislature. He died July, 1863, in Jonesborough, Tenn.
Blair, John
statesman, was born in 1689 in Williamsburg, Va. He was a nephew of President James Blair. As early as 1736 he was a member of the house of burgesses, and he was president of the council, and acting governor of Virginia in 1757-58 and 1768. He died Nov. 5, 1771, in Williamsburg, Va.
Blair, John
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1732 in Williamsburg, Va. He was a member of the legislature in 1765, and on the dissolution of the house in 1769, he, with Washington and other patriots, drafted the Non-Importation Agreement.
He was elected a judge of the court of appeals, then chief justice, and in 1780 chancery judge. In 1789 he was appointed a judge of the United States supreme court, and resigned this position in 1796.
He died Aug. 31, 1800, in Williamsburg, Va.