When Isaac Blair Jr was born on 1 May 1861, in Bow Common, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Isaac Blair Sr, was 31 and his mother, Ruth Suddery, was 30. He married Cerella Jamima Tucker on 24 March 1881, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 12 May 1930, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
On May 26, 1868 the Capital Punishment Act was put into action. This made it so that public hangings no longer existed at Newgate in London.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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