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Blackburn, Edmond Spencer, lawyer, legcongressman, was born Sept. 32, 1868, in Watauga county, N.C. Since 1890 he has practiced law in Winston Salem, N.C. He has been a member of the North Carolina state legislature. In 1901-03 and in 1905-07 he was a representative from North Carolina to the fifty-seventh and fifty-ninth congresses as a republican. Blackburn, Gideon, clergyman, founder, colislator,

lege president,

was

bom

Augusta county. Ga. He

Aug.

27, 1772, in passed the last for-

ty years of his life in the western states in preaching and organizing churches; and in 1803-09 in his mission to the Cherokees, establishing a school at Hywassee. He established a school in Tennessee in 1806; and in 1827-30 was president of Center college of Kentucky. He died Aug. 23, 1838, in Carlinville. HI.

Blackburn, Joseph Clay Styles, 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 civil war; and resumed the practice law in of 1865. He was elected to the state legislature of Kentucky in In 1871 and 1873. 1875-85 he was a representative from Kentucky to the fortyfourth, forty-fifth, forty-si.Kth, the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses. In 1885-97 and in 1901-07 he was United States senator. Blackburn, Luke P., physician, governor, was born June 16, 1816, in Woodford county,

Ky. He was the twenty-sixth governor

of Kentucky in 1879-83. 1887, in Louisville, Ky.

He

died Sept. 14,

Blackburn, William, soldier, pioneer, jurist, 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, serving two years. In 1850 he was elected county judge of Santa Cruz county. He died in 1867 in California. Blackburn, William Jasper, journalist, congressman, poet, was born July 24, 1820, in Randolph county, Arkansas. He was a printer, and became the editor of a newspaper in Louisiana called the Homer Iliad. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1868. In 1867-69 he was a repre.sentative from Louisiana to the fortieth Subsequently he became owner congress.

was born

and editor of the Little Rock Republic. He died in 3 899 in Little Rock, Ark. Blackburn, William Maxwell, clergyman, educator, college president, author, was born Dec. 30,-1838, in Carlisle, Ind. From 1886 he was president of Pierre university, which was subsequently removed to Huron, S.D., and is now known as Huron college. Among

many works, chiefly on religion and biography, are History of the Christian Church; Geneva's Shield; Exiles of Madeira; Judas the Maceabee; The Rebel Prince; College Days of Calvin; Young Calvin in Paris; St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church; Admiral C'oligny and the Rise of the Huguenots; The Theban Legion; and the Uncle Alick series of juvenile tales. He died in December, 1899, his

Huron, S.D. Blackford, Eugene Gilbert, merchant, banker, was born Aug. 8, 1839, in Morristown, N.J. In 1870-1904 he was officially connected with the restocking of lakes and streams, and the hatching of food fish; and for thirteen years was president of the state fish commission. He was president of the Bedford bank in Brooklyn, N.Y. He died in 1904 in

in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Blackford, Isaac Newton, lawyer, legislatwas born Nov. 6, 1786, in Bound Brook, N.J. He was judge of the first district court of Indiana in 1814-15; was speaker of the first state legislature in 1816; was judge of the supreme court of Indiana in 1819-35; and was judge of the United States court of claims in 1855-59. He died Dec. 31, 1859, in Washington, D.C. Blackham, George Edmund, soldier, physician, scientist, was born Aug. 28, 1846, in Jersey City, N.J. In 1864 he served in the civil war. In 1882 he practiced medicine in Dunkirk, N.Y. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the author of Angular Aperture of Objectives for the Microscope. or, jurist,

Black Hawk, Indian chief, was born in 3767 in Randolph county, 111. At the age of twenty-one he became head chief of the Sacs tribe. The Indians sold their land along the Mississippi river to the United States government; but Governor Reynolds had to call out the militia to get Black Hawk to move. It took the Sioux Indians and General Atkinson's whole army to destroy the Sacs and drive them from the land. Black Hawk ded Oct. 3, 1838, in Des Moines, Iowa. Blackistone, Nathaniel, colonial governor, was bom in England. He was appointed governor of Maryland in 1698. In 1701 he returned to England and was made agent of the province and for some years represented its interest in all matters before the home government. Blackledge, William, legislator, congressman, was born in Craven county, N.C. He was for several years a member of the general assembly of North Carolina. In 1791-93, 1803-09 and 1811-13 he was representative from North Carolina to the eighth, ninth and twelfth congresses. He died Got. 19, 1828, in Spring Hill, N.C. Blackledge, William S., legislator, congressman, was bom in 1793 in Pitt county, N.C. He was a member of the general assembly of North Carolina. In 1819-23 he was a representative from North Carolina to the sixteenth and seventeenth congresses. He died March 21, 1857, in Newbern, N.C.