Blair, Henry W. (1834-1920)

Name:

Blair, Henry W. (1834-1920)

Title:

Prosecuting attorney, Grafton County, 1860
Lieutenant Colonel, 15th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1866
Member, New Hampshire State Senate, 1867-68
Member, United States House of Representative 1875-79, 1893-95.
Member, United States Senate, 1879-91; Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China, 1891

Other Names:

Blair, Henry William

Born:

12/02/1834

Birthplace:

Campton, NH

Died:

03/14/1920

Death Location:

Washington, DC

Residence:

Campton, NH 1834, 1850
Plymouth, NH 1860, 1864, 1870, 1880
Manchester, NH 1886, 1894
Washington, DC 1900, 1910

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Lawyer
Author
Reformer

Benefactor in the establishment of the State Normal School at Plymouth and the Holderness School for Boys.

Father:

Blair, William Henry (1805-1836)

Mother:

Baker, Louise (1806-1846)

Spouse:

Blair, Eliza Nelson (1836-1907), December 20, 1859

Children:

Henry Patterson, December 8, 1867; died October 3, 1948; lawyer; Washington, DC

Notes:

Gordon B. McKinney, Henry W. Blair's Campaign to Reform America: From the Civil War to the U.S. Senate. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2013.

George F. Willey, "Willey's Semi-Centennial Book of Manchester" (Manchester, 1896), 132-134.

Blair Cemetery, Campton, NH

Henry W. Blair Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society Library