When Allen Harrison Blair was born on 14 December 1848, in Fayette, Ohio, United States, his father, Daniel L. Blair, was 40 and his mother, Hannah Moon, was 29. He married Sarah Margaret Dearduff on 7 June 1881, in Hartford City, Licking Township, Blackford, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Blackford, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Blackford, Indiana, United States in 1920. He died on 8 October 1931, in Hartford City, Licking Township, Blackford, Indiana, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hartford City Cemetery, Hartford City, Licking Township, Blackford, Indiana, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
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