John Cameron Blair and Luella Elthura Henton

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Husband John Cameron Blair ¹

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           Born: 5 May 1854 - Philadelphia, PA 1
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         Father: James Blair (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Glenn (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 18 Jun 1878 2

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Wife Luella Elthura Henton ²

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           Born: 1861 - Little Cooley, Athens Twp, Crawford Co, PA 2
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         Father: Martin Henton (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Caroline White (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Orbin James Blair ²

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           Born: 16 Apr 1880 2
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2 M Clyde Martin Blair ²

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           Born: 27 Sep 1881 2
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         Spouse: Charlotte Godfrey (      -      ) 2

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3 F Adda Caroline Blair ²

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           Born: 16 Sep 1896 2
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General Notes: Husband - John Cameron Blair

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He spent his early life in the Lehigh Valley, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Catasacwa and Allentown, and his education was acquired in the public schools of these places. At the early age of eleven years he began earning his own livelihood, securing employment in the oil regions, at Oil City, Parker's Landing, Bradford, and finally coming to Warren County. His first employer was George K. Anderson and he was engaged in pumping and general lease work. His next experience was in tool dressing and drilling, and he was thereafter engaged in all kinds of work pertaining to oil producing, becoming one of the practical and expert oil operators of Warren County. While employed on a lease he learned telegraph operating with the Western New York & Pennsylvania Company. In 1883 he came to Tiona and took charge of a lease for R. H. Thayer, and in April, 1896, entered the employ of the National Transit Company, conducting a general line of work together with telegraphing. The company soon placed him in charge of the general station at Tiona as telegraph operator, engineer and guager. The station where he was employed pumped the oil from Tiona to Bear Creek, Pennsylvania, and from Tiona to Olean, New York; it had a capacity of five thousand barrels per day.
By prudence and economy Mr. Blair accumulated considerable capital, which he invested in gas and oil wells, owning a half interest in seventeen, which had an output of about seventy barrels per month of oil and a fair output of gas. His oil lease was located at Barnes, Pennsylvania, better known as Lower Sheffield.
Mr. Blair took an active interest in the work of the Republican party, serving as treasurer of the Meed township school board for two terms. He was a member of North Star Lodge, No. 241, Free and Accepted Masons; Occidental Chapter, No. 235, Royal Arch Masons; Warren Commandery, No. 63, Knights Templar; North Clarendon Lodge, No. 1081, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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General Notes: Wife - Luella Elthura Henton

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She was is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church of Tiona, Warren County, Pennsylvania.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 768.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 769.