Blair, Samuel – Blake, Mrs. Lillie Devereux
Blair, Samuel
clergyman, was born June 14, 1712, in Ireland. He was one of the original members of New Brunswick presbytery, formed in 1738, and in 1739 took charge of the church at New Londonderry, or Fogg's Manor, Pa. Shortly after his settlement there he established a seminary, at which young men were educated, some of whom were afterward prominent in the presbyterian church, among them Rev. Samuel Davies and Rev. John Rodgers. He died July 5, 1751.
Blair, Samuel
clergyman, legislator, was born in 1741 in Fogg's Manor, Pa. He was the principal founder of the English presbyterian church of Germantown, Pa., and preached gratuitously for a season. He was several times a member of the Pennsylvania assembly, and was for two years chaplain to the continental congress. He died Sept. 24, 1818, in Germantown, Pa.
Blair, Samuel S
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses.
Blair, William
merchant. About 1848, after the opening of the Illinois and Michigan canal, he closed the retail branch of his business, thus becoming the first to establish an exclusively wholesale hardware house in Chicago and being at the time the only one in the west outside of St. Louis.
Blair, William Allen
educator, lecturer, author, was born June 4, 1860, in High Point, N. C. After graduating in 1882 from Harvard university, he entered actively into educational work. In 1889 he was commissioned as state representative of the Paris exposition, and has thoroughly examined the school systems of Europe. He has been president of several societies and in 1890 became president of the People's National bank of Winston, N. C. He is the author of The History of North Carolina.
Blaisdell, Daniel
lawyer, congressman. He was a state councilor from 1803 to 1808, and a representative in congress from New Hampshire, from 1808 to 1811. He died in 1832.
Blaisdell, Elijah Whittier
lawyer, state legislator, author, poet, was born July 18, 1826, in Montpelier, Vt. In 1854 he moved to Rockford, Ill.; participated with Abraham Lincoln in the formation of the republican party in 1856; and was the first editor in the United States who raised his name for the presidency of the United States. He canvassed the state of Illinois for General Grant and Governor Oglesby; and was afterward a Cleveland elector. He was a candidate for congress three times in the sixth district of Illinois; was a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1859 and 1860; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. For twenty years he was an editor; and for fifteen years has been a lawyer. He is the author of a successful story entitled The Hidden Record; a drama entitled Shabbona; The Rajah, a burlesque poem; Eva, the General's Daughter, a drama in blank verse; and a volume of poems.
Blaisdell, H. G
governor. He was the first governor of Nevada after it became a state, and served as such from 1864 to 1869.
Blake, Clarence John
physician, inventor, journalist, was born Feb. 23, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He was president of the American Otological society in 1876-77. He has invented several surgical instruments for use in the treatment of diseases of the ear, principally the membrana tympani phonautograph.
Blake, Edward Harwood
lawyer, financier, railroad president. He had a course at Brown college and post-graduate course at Harvard. He then attended the Albany Law school; practiced law in Bangor; and was made president of the Merchants' National bank in 1887.
Blake, Eli Whitney
inventor, was born Jan. 27, 1795, in Westborough, Mass.
The ideas that he originated still characterize the forms of American locks, latches, casters, hinges, and other articles of house-furnishing hardware wherever manufactured. His crusher is now used in all parts of the world for breaking ores, road metal, and similar purposes. Mr.
Blake was one of the founders, and for several years president, of the Connecticut Academy of Science. He is the author of Original Solutions of Several Problems in Aërodynamics. He died Aug. 18, 1886, in New Haven, Conn.
Blake, Eli Whitney
educator, was born April 20, 1836, in New Haven, Conn.
He has been professor of chemistry in the university of Vermont, at Cornell, at Columbia, and at Brown. He is a fellow of the American association for the Advancement of Science, and member of other scientific bodies, to whose proceedings he has frequently contributed valuable papers.
Blake, Ellyn J
educator, scientist, was born Nov. 7, 1842, in Wilbraham, Mass. She graduated from the Wesleyan academy of her native city; and for many years was engaged in educational work at Wilbraham and Palmer, Mass. In 1886 she began the treatment of hypertrichosis with electricity, and was the first woman to take legitimate instruction and make a specialty of the work.
Blake, Mrs. Euphemia Vale
journalist, author, poet, was born May 7, 1825, near Hastings, England. Her father, Gilbert Vale, was well known as an author, publisher, inventor, public lec turer and professor of astronomy and mathematics, who died in 1866 in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs.
Blake has written extensively for the North American Review, the Christian Examiner, the Boston Transcript, and other well-known publications. Since 1857 she has lived in Brooklyn, N. Y., engaged in journalism.
She is the author of Arctic Experiences; Teeth, Ether and Chloroform; History of Newburyport; and her latest work is A History of Tammany Hall, from its organization in 1789 to the present time.
Blake, George a. H
soldier, was born in September, 1812, in Pennsylvania.
He served in the Seminole, Mexican and civil wars, and attained the rank of brigadier-general.
Blake, George Smith
naval officer, was born in 1803, in Worcester, Mass. In 1857-65 he was superintendent of the United States Naval academy. Soon after the civil war broke out, the academy was removed to Newport. On the reorganization of the navy in 1862 he was promoted to commodore.
Blake, Harrison G
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 17, 1818, in New Fane, Vt. He served four years in the Ohio legislature, and was president of the state senate in 1848 and 1849. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.
Blake, Henry N
jurist. In 1875 he was appointed one of the associate justices of the United States for the territory of Montana.
Blake, James
soldier, public official, was born March 3, 1791, in York county, Pa. He enlisted as a volunteer in the war of 1812. For thirty-five years he was the president of the Indianapolis Benevolent society.
Blake, James Vila
clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in New York. He is a unitarian clergyman of Chicago; and the author of Poems; Essays; A Grateful Spirit; Anchor of the Soul; St. Solifer; and Legends from Story Land.
Blake, John
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York state from 1805 to 1809; and was a member of the New York assembly in 1819.
Blake, John B
financier, was born Aug. 12, 1802, in Colchester, Va. He was commissioner of public buildings during a part of the administration of President Pierce, and during the whole of that of President Buchanan. For many years he was president of the National Metropolitan bank of Washington city; and was connected with the board of public works in Washington.
Blake, John B
railroad president, was born May 16, 1838, in Marlboro, Vt.
Since 1892 he has been president of the West Virginia, Pineville and Tennessee railroad.
Blake, John Lauris
educator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 21, 1788, in Northwood, N. H. He was an episcopal clergyman of Boston long prominent as an educator. He was the author of Text Book of Geography and Chronology; Family Encyclopædia of Agriculture and Domestic Economy; Farmer's Every-Day Book; Modern Farmer; Letters on Confirmation; General Biographical Dictionary; Book of Nature Laid Open; Wonders of the Earth; and Wonders of Art. He died July 6, 1857, in Orange, N. J.
Blake, John L
lawyer, congressman, was born March 25, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He removed to Orange, N. J., when fifteen years of age, and studied and practiced law. He was a member of the house of assembly in 1857; was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876, and a candidate for presidential elector in the same year. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-sixth congress.
Blake, John Walter
banker, was born Aug. 6, 1858, in Leon county, Texas.
He is prominently identified with the public affairs of his native state; was mayor of Mexico in 1895; president of the Texas Bankers' association in 1891, and has filled various other public offices of honor.
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.