Brief Life History of Edwin Ogle
When Edwin Ogle Blair was born on 23 August 1861, in Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Ogle Blair, was 37 and his mother, Mary Jane Greer, was 23. He married Anna Blanche Ervin on 19 August 1886, in Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on 13 April 1942, in Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Burns Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Edward O Blair, "United States Census, 1910"
- Edwin A Blair, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Edwin O. Blair, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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