Brief Life History of Jedediah Morgan
When Jedediah Morgan Blair was born on 8 July 1854, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Seth Millington Blair, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Jane Foster, was 17. He married Julia Susanne Ballif on 11 December 1879, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 10 January 1930, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- J M Blair, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Jediah Morgon Blair, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- J M Blair, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1859 · Logan is Founded
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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BIOGRAPHY OF JEDEDIAH MORGAN BLAIR
Jedediah Morgan Blair was born on 8 July 1854 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake,Utah Territory to Seth Millington and Sarah Jane Foster Blair. He was the oldest of six children, four girls and two boys. …
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