When Mary Ellen Blair was born on 29 January 1861, in Ohio, United States, her father, Alexander Martin Blair, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Sanders Fisher, was 31. She lived in Orange Township, Hancock, Ohio, United States in 1870 and Colfax Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1880. She died on 5 June 1886, at the age of 25, and was buried in Zion Cemetery, Chanute, Neosho, Kansas, United States.
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"The Kansas Agricultural Society was formed on March 5, 1862. The society encouraged farmers to grow winter wheat which created the nickname """"bread basket of the world."
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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