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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Blackman, Albert Milton, soldier, was born he became a captain in the twenty-first regiment Ohio infantry; and in in Ohio. In 1861

1864 was brevetted brigadier-general of vol-

He died June 13, 1881. Blackman, George Curtis, physiuian, surgeon, was born April 20, 1819, in Newtown, Conn. In 1854 he became professor of surgery in the medical college of Ohio at Cincinnati. During the civil war he served as an army surgeon. He translated and edited Vidal's Treatment on Venereal Disease; and edited a new edition of Mott's translation of Velpeau's Surgery, with notes and additions of his own. He died July 19, 1871, in Avon-

unteers.

dale, Ohio.

Blackman, Learner, missionary, was born about 1781 in New. Jersey. After preaching two years in Delaware, he removed to the west; in 1805 was sent as a missionary to Natchez, Miss.; and his labors did much to

methodism

in that section of the died in 1815 in Ohio. Blackman, Samuel Hall, civil engineer, lawyer, statesman, was born April 6, 1814, in Aurora, Ohio. He moved to Michigan in 1842; and since 1844 has practiced law in

establish country.

He

Paw Paw. He

has been county surveyor; and

He

is ii member of the American association for the advance of science. 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 Pro-

gress ; The Elements of Sociology ; Economics for Colleges; Economics for High Schools; The Life of Charles Robinson; The Study of

History, Sociology and Economics ; and -other works.

Blackmar, Esbon, legislator, congressman, was born in New York. In 1848-49 he was a representative from New York to the thirtieth congress to fill a vacancy. He also served two years in the New York state assembly from Wayne county.

Blackmar, Wilmon Whilldin, soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born July 25, 1841, in Bristol, Pa. In 1861 he enlisted as a private soldier in the fifteenth regiment Pennsylvania cavalry and was promoted to the position of provost marshal of his brigade. For ten years he was judge-advocate general of Massachusetts; and in 1900 was a presidential elector. He died in 1905.

Blackmore, Henry Spencer, patent attorney, chemist, inventor, was born March 10, 1868, in Yonkers, N.Y.; and is a son of Isaac

many

years was a engineer on the Michigan central and on other railroads. In 1863-64 he was a meml)er of the Michigan state senate; and served on several important committees. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867; and was a member of the Michigan house of representatives in 1873-74. Blackman, William Fremont, educator, author, was born Sept. 26, 1855, in North Pritcher, X.Y. Since 1893 he has been professor of sociology at Yale college. He is the author of The Territory of Hawaii, a Sociological Study. Blackmar, Frank Wilson, educator, sociologist, author, was. born on Nov. 3, 1854, in Springfield, Pa. He was educated at the Edinboro state normal school, the university of the Pacific and at Johns Hopkins university; and has received the degrees of A.B., A. M. and Ph.D. In 188386 he was professor of mathematics at the university of the Paciin 1888-99 was fic; professor of sociology for

Blackmore. In 1884 he graduated from the

field

and of economics and since 1899 dean of the graduate school at the university of Kansas. In 1900-02 he was president of the Kansas conference of charities and corrections.

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grammar school at Mount Vernon, N.Y.; in

1888 he graduated

from the

New York

of pharmacy and has received the degrees of Ph.G. and He has been F.C.S. vice-president of the Black-Ford utility oil college

company;

is consulting chemist to the Ameri-

can automatic disinfectant company and the ile.xican national leather company; and is the inventor of processes for reducing aluminum and other metals, electric smelting, making alkali from feldspar, making caustic soda from common salt; and has taken out over one hundred and fifty patents. He is the discoverer, inventor and patentee of a process for making substances which are unstable at elevated temperature, but which evolve heat on their formation and this process has economized and revolutionized the manufacture of these products. He has also discovered what is believed to be two new chemical elements of non-metallic nature, found asso;

ciated or combined with sulphur, for which the names Azureon and Vernon have been suggested. He is consulting chemist to the health department of the state of New York. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science a member of the International congress of applied chemistry and the International electrical congress and of various other fraternal, patriotic and

scientific societies.