Husband of Viola Blake, and father of Mrs. George C Manley, Mrs. Foster Robinson, Mrs. H. A. Rispin and Winfield, Evarts I. and Robert I. Blake.
San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California)
March 2, 1906 (Friday)
"ISAAC E. BLAKE HEARS LAST CALL.
Former Well Known Capitalist and Director of Church Choirs Dies at His Home.
[Portrait of Mr. Blake with caption: "Isaac Blake, Who Died Suddenly at His Home in This City."]
Isaac E[lder] Blake, 62 years of age, a former capitalist and since 1902 president of the Transport Oil Company of this city, died suddenly at his home, 1270 Fulton street, on Wednesday evening, having enjoyed good health up to the moment of his death.
Mr. Blake was a strong churchman, devoting most of his time, at an expense to himself, directing choirs. For a number of years he directed the choir of the Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Buchanan and Hayes streets, and while in Denver fifteen years ago presented a $50,000 organ to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of that city. At that time Mr. Blake was president of the Continental Oil and Transportation Company, which in 1885 was merged into the Standard Oil Company, after which he became manager for the Standard Oil interests in the West, severing his connnection with that corporation in 1892. At that period he built the Nevada Southern Railroad, which is now part of the Santa Fe system.
Up to the time of his death he was identified in oil and railroad interests, and he was considered the pioneer oil man of the Pacific Coast, being the first to produce oil in this State.
Mr. Blake leaves a wife and six children: Evarts Blake, Robert Blake and Mrs. H. A. Rispin, of San Francisco; Mrs. George C. Manly, of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Foster Robinson of Sistersville, W. Va., and Winfield Blake of Sydney, Australia, the well-known comic opera singer.
The funeral services will be held at Simpson Memorial Church at the 11 o'clock services Sunday morning." END
[Footnote on Denver church organ: In 1888, Trinity’s Music Director, Isaac Blake, was entrusted with full responsibility for the organ selection and installation. Additionally, Blake committed to cover the full cost of the project, $30,000. The organ was designed by the Roosevelt Organ Works of New York. Frank Roosevelt finished construction in 18 months and personally supervised the five months of shipping and installation. The electricity needed to power the organ’s electro-pneumatic action was originally generated by a dynamo. The dynamo was turned by a water wheel which gained its power from an artesian well below the sanctuary. Behind the 108 pipes in the organ’s facade are an additional 4,167 pipes, making the total number of pipes 4,275. At today’s estimation of over $2,500,000, Roosevelt Opus No. 380 is one of the largest Roosevelt-built organs of the 19th Century still in operation.]
San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California)
March 2, 1906 (Friday)
"ISAAC E. BLAKE HEARS LAST CALL.
Former Well Known Capitalist and Director of Church Choirs Dies at His Home.
[Portrait of Mr. Blake with caption: "Isaac Blake, Who Died Suddenly at His Home in This City."]
Isaac E[lder] Blake, 62 years of age, a former capitalist and since 1902 president of the Transport Oil Company of this city, died suddenly at his home, 1270 Fulton street, on Wednesday evening, having enjoyed good health up to the moment of his death.
Mr. Blake was a strong churchman, devoting most of his time, at an expense to himself, directing choirs. For a number of years he directed the choir of the Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Buchanan and Hayes streets, and while in Denver fifteen years ago presented a $50,000 organ to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of that city. At that time Mr. Blake was president of the Continental Oil and Transportation Company, which in 1885 was merged into the Standard Oil Company, after which he became manager for the Standard Oil interests in the West, severing his connnection with that corporation in 1892. At that period he built the Nevada Southern Railroad, which is now part of the Santa Fe system.
Up to the time of his death he was identified in oil and railroad interests, and he was considered the pioneer oil man of the Pacific Coast, being the first to produce oil in this State.
Mr. Blake leaves a wife and six children: Evarts Blake, Robert Blake and Mrs. H. A. Rispin, of San Francisco; Mrs. George C. Manly, of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Foster Robinson of Sistersville, W. Va., and Winfield Blake of Sydney, Australia, the well-known comic opera singer.
The funeral services will be held at Simpson Memorial Church at the 11 o'clock services Sunday morning." END
[Footnote on Denver church organ: In 1888, Trinity’s Music Director, Isaac Blake, was entrusted with full responsibility for the organ selection and installation. Additionally, Blake committed to cover the full cost of the project, $30,000. The organ was designed by the Roosevelt Organ Works of New York. Frank Roosevelt finished construction in 18 months and personally supervised the five months of shipping and installation. The electricity needed to power the organ’s electro-pneumatic action was originally generated by a dynamo. The dynamo was turned by a water wheel which gained its power from an artesian well below the sanctuary. Behind the 108 pipes in the organ’s facade are an additional 4,167 pipes, making the total number of pipes 4,275. At today’s estimation of over $2,500,000, Roosevelt Opus No. 380 is one of the largest Roosevelt-built organs of the 19th Century still in operation.]
Husband of Viola Blake, and father of Mrs. George C Manley, Mrs. Foster Robinson, Mrs. H. A. Rispin and Winfield, Evarts I. and Robert I. Blake.
San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California)
March 2, 1906 (Friday)
"ISAAC E. BLAKE HEARS LAST CALL.
Former Well Known Capitalist and Director of Church Choirs Dies at His Home.
[Portrait of Mr. Blake with caption: "Isaac Blake, Who Died Suddenly at His Home in This City."]
Isaac E[lder] Blake, 62 years of age, a former capitalist and since 1902 president of the Transport Oil Company of this city, died suddenly at his home, 1270 Fulton street, on Wednesday evening, having enjoyed good health up to the moment of his death.
Mr. Blake was a strong churchman, devoting most of his time, at an expense to himself, directing choirs. For a number of years he directed the choir of the Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Buchanan and Hayes streets, and while in Denver fifteen years ago presented a $50,000 organ to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of that city. At that time Mr. Blake was president of the Continental Oil and Transportation Company, which in 1885 was merged into the Standard Oil Company, after which he became manager for the Standard Oil interests in the West, severing his connnection with that corporation in 1892. At that period he built the Nevada Southern Railroad, which is now part of the Santa Fe system.
Up to the time of his death he was identified in oil and railroad interests, and he was considered the pioneer oil man of the Pacific Coast, being the first to produce oil in this State.
Mr. Blake leaves a wife and six children: Evarts Blake, Robert Blake and Mrs. H. A. Rispin, of San Francisco; Mrs. George C. Manly, of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Foster Robinson of Sistersville, W. Va., and Winfield Blake of Sydney, Australia, the well-known comic opera singer.
The funeral services will be held at Simpson Memorial Church at the 11 o'clock services Sunday morning." END
[Footnote on Denver church organ: In 1888, Trinity’s Music Director, Isaac Blake, was entrusted with full responsibility for the organ selection and installation. Additionally, Blake committed to cover the full cost of the project, $30,000. The organ was designed by the Roosevelt Organ Works of New York. Frank Roosevelt finished construction in 18 months and personally supervised the five months of shipping and installation. The electricity needed to power the organ’s electro-pneumatic action was originally generated by a dynamo. The dynamo was turned by a water wheel which gained its power from an artesian well below the sanctuary. Behind the 108 pipes in the organ’s facade are an additional 4,167 pipes, making the total number of pipes 4,275. At today’s estimation of over $2,500,000, Roosevelt Opus No. 380 is one of the largest Roosevelt-built organs of the 19th Century still in operation.]
San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California)
March 2, 1906 (Friday)
"ISAAC E. BLAKE HEARS LAST CALL.
Former Well Known Capitalist and Director of Church Choirs Dies at His Home.
[Portrait of Mr. Blake with caption: "Isaac Blake, Who Died Suddenly at His Home in This City."]
Isaac E[lder] Blake, 62 years of age, a former capitalist and since 1902 president of the Transport Oil Company of this city, died suddenly at his home, 1270 Fulton street, on Wednesday evening, having enjoyed good health up to the moment of his death.
Mr. Blake was a strong churchman, devoting most of his time, at an expense to himself, directing choirs. For a number of years he directed the choir of the Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Buchanan and Hayes streets, and while in Denver fifteen years ago presented a $50,000 organ to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of that city. At that time Mr. Blake was president of the Continental Oil and Transportation Company, which in 1885 was merged into the Standard Oil Company, after which he became manager for the Standard Oil interests in the West, severing his connnection with that corporation in 1892. At that period he built the Nevada Southern Railroad, which is now part of the Santa Fe system.
Up to the time of his death he was identified in oil and railroad interests, and he was considered the pioneer oil man of the Pacific Coast, being the first to produce oil in this State.
Mr. Blake leaves a wife and six children: Evarts Blake, Robert Blake and Mrs. H. A. Rispin, of San Francisco; Mrs. George C. Manly, of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Foster Robinson of Sistersville, W. Va., and Winfield Blake of Sydney, Australia, the well-known comic opera singer.
The funeral services will be held at Simpson Memorial Church at the 11 o'clock services Sunday morning." END
[Footnote on Denver church organ: In 1888, Trinity’s Music Director, Isaac Blake, was entrusted with full responsibility for the organ selection and installation. Additionally, Blake committed to cover the full cost of the project, $30,000. The organ was designed by the Roosevelt Organ Works of New York. Frank Roosevelt finished construction in 18 months and personally supervised the five months of shipping and installation. The electricity needed to power the organ’s electro-pneumatic action was originally generated by a dynamo. The dynamo was turned by a water wheel which gained its power from an artesian well below the sanctuary. Behind the 108 pipes in the organ’s facade are an additional 4,167 pipes, making the total number of pipes 4,275. At today’s estimation of over $2,500,000, Roosevelt Opus No. 380 is one of the largest Roosevelt-built organs of the 19th Century still in operation.]
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