When Preston Alonzo Blair was born on 15 March 1849, in DeWitt, Texas, United States, his father, Seth Millington Blair, was 30 and his mother, Cornelia Jane Espy, was 29. He married Margaret Skelton on 1 March 1870, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 5 years and Ogden City Legislative District 3, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 11 August 1945, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1852: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
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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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