Blake, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth – Blanchard, Samuel Gray
Blake, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
author, poet, was born in 1840 in Iowa.
She is the author of Poems; Youth in Twelve Centuries; Verses by the Way.
Her prose includes On the Wing, sketches of American Travel; A Summer Holiday; travel experiences in Europe; Mexico:
Picturesque, Political and Progressive.
Blake, Thomas Holdsworth
congressman, was born June, 1792, in Calvert county, Md. He served at the battle of Bladensburg, in 1814. For many years he was a member of the Indiana state legislature, and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1827 to 1829. Under President Tyler's administration he was commissioner of the general land office, and upon his resignation was appointed president of the Wabash and Erie Canal company. He died Nov. 28, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Blake, Upton Clarence
lawyer, was born Sept. 2, 1845, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. In 1865 he graduated from Kenyon college of Gambier, Ohio, and has since attained prominence as an able and learned lawyer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Blake, William Phipps
was born June 1, 1826, in New York city. He is a mineralogist of prominence and professor of geology in the University of Arizona. He is the author of Silver Ores and Silver Mines; California Minerals; Production of the Precious Metals; Iron and Steel; Ceramic Art and Glass; History of Hamden, Conn.; and Life of Captain Jonathan Mix. BLAKE, WILLIAM RUFUS, actor, was born in 1805 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. he was, at different times, stage manager of the Tremont theater, Boston; joint manager of the Walnut street theater, Philadelphia, and stage manager of the Broadway theater, New York. He was the author of the plays Nero; The Turned Head, and The Buggs. He died April 22, 1863, in Boston, Mass.
Blakeley, Archibald
soldier, lawyer, was born July 16, 1827, in Butler county, Pa. In 1852 he was admitted to the bar and served three years as district attorney of his native county. He served as a union soldier during the civil war as colonel of the seventy-eighth regiment of Pennsylvania infantry. He was president of the general court-martial and military commissioner in the capitol at Nashville in 1862. He was in the battles of Stone River, Dug Gap, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Kidge, and commanded the brigade on Lookout Mountain during the winter of 1863-64.
Since the close of the war he has practiced law in Pittsburg, Pa. He declined the governorship of Utah, tendered by President Johnson; declined office of adjutant-general of Pennsylvania, tendered by Governor Geary. He is the president of the Pennsylvania commission for the construction of monuments in Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park.
Blakeley, Johnston
commander United States navy, was born Oct., 1781, in Ireland. In 1807 he was made a lieutenant; in 1813 he was appointed a master commandant, and placed in command of the Wasp. In 1814 he was a captain, but never enjoyed the promotion, as the Wasp was not heard of after Oct. 9, 1814.
Blakelock, Ralph Albert
artist, was born Oct. 15, 1847, in New York city. He has painted landscapes, Indian figures, and moonlight scenes. One of his pictures represents the Ta-vo-kok-i, or circle-dance of the Kavavite Indians. 1882 he exhibited at the national acad- In emy Cloverdale, Cal.; Moonlight; and The Indian Fisherman; in 1884, A Landscape; and On the Face of Quiet Waters; and in 1885, Cumuli.
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.
Blakesley, Louis William
journalist, was born April 8, 1868, in Lafayette, Ill. In 1885 he moved to Logan, Kan., and subsequently taught school in that state. In 1890 he moved to Wyoming, and during 1892-93 was principal of the Lander high school. In 1893 he founded The Otto Courier, of which he is the editor and owner. In 1896 he was appointed by Governor Richards as one of the commissioners to organize the county of Big Horn, Wyo.
Blanchard, Albert G
soldier, was born in 1810 in Charlestown, Mass.
During the Mexican war he served as captain of Louisiana volunteers, being at the battle of Monterey and the siege of Vera Cruz. At the beginning of the civil war, in 1861, he was made a brigadier-general in the confederate army. Since the war General Blanchard has been a civil engineer and surveyor in New Orleans.
Blanchard, Amy Ella
author, was born in Baltimore, Md. For several years she taught school; then took up the study of art; and in 1881, in conjunction with Ida Waugh, published her first book, entitled Holly Berries. She has since made a specialty of works for young people, more particularly for girls; and her best known works are Twenty Little Maidens; Taking a Stand; and the Blanchard Library For Girls, consisting of Two Girls, Girls Together, and Betsy of Wye.
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, Helen Augusta
inventor, was born in Portland, Maine.
Among her numerous inventions are the Blanchard over-seaming machine, and the crocheting and sewing machine; all of which are in use by immense manufactories, and are ranked among the most remarkable mechanical contrivances of the age.
Blanchard, James Armstrong
soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 16, 1845, in Henderson, N. Y. In 1864 he served in the civil war as a private in company I, second Wisconsin cavalry. In 1873 was admitted to the bar, and at once began the active practice of his profession in New York city.
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.
Blanchard, Joseph
soldier, jurist, was born Feb. 11, 1704, near Nashua, N. H. He was a mandamus councilor from 1740-58, and judge of the superior court of New Hampshire from 1749-58.
He commanded a New Hampshire regiment in 1755, and was engaged at Crown Point. He died April 7, 1758.
Blanchard, Justus Wardwell
soldier, was born in 1811, in Milford, N. H.
Before the civil war he was captain of the Burgess corps of Albany, N. Y. He entered the national service as captain in the third New York volunteers in 1861, became lieutenant-colonel in 1863, and brevet brigadier-general of volunteers on March 13, 1865. He died Sept. 14, 1877, in Syracuse, N. Y.
Blanchard, Nathaniel Whit- Son
farmer, legislator, was born Aug. 19, 1849, in Hinds county, Miss. He is a successful farmer in Staffords, Miss., and has twice been a representative in the Mississippi state legislature. He has been a member of the county school board, chairman of the democratic executive committee, and filled various other public positions of trust in his city, county and state.
Blanchard, Newton Crain
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Jan. 29, 1849, in Rapids Parish, La.
He received an academic education; graduated as a bachelor of laws at the University of Louisiana in 1870; and commenced practice at Shreveport, La., in 1871. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1879; was appointed a major in the state militia, and was made a trustee of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, when he was appointed United States senator to fill a vacancy, and received the election for term ending in 1897. In 1897 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana.
Blanchard, Noah Farwell
financier, manufacturer, was born Jan. 22, 1821. The firm of Blanchard, Brother and Lane became one of the largest and best known manufacturers of patent leather in the United States. He died May 11, 1881, in Newark, N. J.
Blanchard, Samuel Gray
educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 25, 1840, in Sandusky, Ohio. He received his education in Canada, and subsequently attended Eastman's Business college of New York city. For eight years he was engaged in educational work; since 1868 has been a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate in Los Angeles, Cal. In 1886 he was appointed presiding elder of the Santa Barbara district. He has been editor of several publications and contributes extensively to current literature.