Brief Life History of David Tyler
When David Tyler Blair was born on 29 March 1885, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his father, James William Blair, was 40 and his mother, Agnes Clark, was 35. He married Irene Violet Smith on 2 May 1923, in Burlingame, San Mateo, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Judicial Township 5, San Mateo, California, United States in 1940 and San Mateo, San Mateo, California, United States in 1950. He died on 20 January 1958, in Burlingame, San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
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- David T Blair, "United States 1950 Census"
- David Blair, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- David Tyler Blair, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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