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vices of General

William A. Butler.

Jul}' 9, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo. Blair, Francis Preston, journalist,

He

died

was born

April 12, 1791, in Abingdon, Va. His views against nullification, in a Kentucky paper,

caused General Jackson to invite him to edit a democratic journal in Washington, D.C. The Globe was commenced by him in 1830, and continued until 1845. He died Oct. 18,

Md. Henry William, soldier, congressman, author, was born Dec. 6, 1834, in Gampton, N.H. He was prosecuting attorney for 1876, in Silver Springs, Blair,

Grafton

county

in

He served in the union army as lieuten1860.

ant-colonel during the

war. He was a representative the in civil

New Hampshire

state legislature in 1866; and a state senator in 1867-68. In 1875-79

4

and 1893-95 he was a from

•'^presentative

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^^'^^ Hampshire to the forty-fourth, the forty-fifth and fifty-third congresses; and declined a renomination. In 1879-91 he was United States senator from New Hampshire. He is the author of The Temperance Movement, or the Conflict of Man with Alcohol.

of President James Blair. As early as 1736 he was » member of the house of burgesses and he was president of the council. In 1757-58 he was acting governor; and in 1767-68 he was colonial governor of Virginia. He died Nov. 5, 1771, in Williamsburg, Va.

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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, with Washington and other patriots, he drafted the nonimportation agreement. He was elected a judge of the court of appeals ; then chief justice; and in 1780 became chancery judge. In 1789-96 he was a judge of the United States

supreme court.

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Jacob

lawyer, jurist, congress11, 1821, in Parkersburg, Va. He was prosecuting attorney for Ritchie county for several years. In 1861-65 he was a representative from Virginia to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth congresses. In 1867 he was elected a representative in the state legislature and was United States minister to Costa Rica in 1868-72. In 187688 he was associate justice of the supreme court of Wyoming territory. He died Feb. 12, 1901, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Blair, James, clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1656 in Lancaster, S.C. He was an episcopal clergyman of Virginia; Blair,

B.,

man, was born April



and founded William and Mary college, of which he was 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.

He

died Aug. 31, 1800, in

Williamsburg, Va. Blair, John, state senator, congressman, was born in 1798 in Washington county, Tenn. In 1833-35 he was a representative from Tennessee to the eighteenth to the Before entering twenty-third congresses. congress he served in both branches of the Tennessee state legislature. He died July 9, 1863, in Jonesborough, Tenn.

John Insley, railroad builder, capitawas born Aug. 32, 1833, near Belvidere, He was a founder of the Belvidere bank.

Blair, list,

N.J.

He loaned the government over one million dollars early in the civil war period. He died December, 1899, in Blairstown, N.J.

in

Blair, Joseph Paxton, educator, mathematician, lawyer, was born Dec. 5, 1859, in Columbus, Miss. He taught latin and Greek in

the Shenandoah valley academy at Winchester, Va.; and for two years was professor of mathematics in Tulane university of New Orleans, La. Since 1883 he has practiced law in that city.

Lewis Jackson, soldier, was born in In 1862 he became a captain in the eighty-eighth regiment Indiana infantry; and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Blair,

Ohio.

Blair, Montgomery, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 10, 1813, in Franklin county,

Ky. He served

in the Florida war. He settled in the practice of law at St. Louis in 1839; was mayor of that city in 1842; and judge of the court of common pleas in 184349. In 1853 he removed to Maryland; and was one of the counsel in the Dred Scott case. In 1860 he acted as president of the

James, congressman, was born in

Maryland republican convention; and was a

Lancaster, S.C. In 1831-23 and 1839-34 he was a representative from South Carolina to the seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third congresses. He died by his own hand April 1, 1834, in Washington, D.C. Blair, James G., lawyer, congressman, was born in 1828. He was a lawyer of Canton, Mo. In 1871-73 he was a representative from Lewis county. Mo., to the forty-second congress as a republican. He died about 1906 in Canton, Mo. Blair, John, colonial governor, was born in ]689 in Williamsburg, Va.; and was a neph-

presidential elector at the subsequent electi-

Blair,

on.

He

In 1861-64 he was postmaster-general. died July 27, 1883, in Silver Springs, Md.

Samuel, clergyman, was born June He was one of the orig-

Blair,

14, 1712, in Ireland.

inal

members

formed

of

New Brunswick and

presbytery,

took charge of the church at New Londonderry, or Fogg's Manor, Pa. He established a seminary, at which young men were educated, among them being Rev. Samuel Davies and Rev. .Tohn Rodgers. He died July 5, 1751, in Pennin 1738;

sylvania.

in 1739