Daughter of William & Dolly (Elliot) Nelson. Married Henry Blair December 20, 1859.
She was a member of the Woman's Anthropological Society, the Garfield Memorial Hospital, and the National Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C., the Interrogation and Historic Art Clubs of Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Manchester Federation of Women's Clubs, and was the first vice-president of the New Hampshire Federation. She was the author of the book Lisbeth Wilson: A Daughter of New Hampshire Hills.
∼The dispatch announcing the sudden death of Mrs. Henry William Blair, wife of former Senator Blair of this state came as a general shock to her friends and although the news contained was brief, it stated that death came Wednesday afternoon of last week at 3 o'clock at the Washington House, 1410 Twentieth Street. Pneumonia was the cause of death. The funeral was in Washington on Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Blair's death will bring sorrow into many a home, and also remove a most active woman from the church and various organizations of which she was a valued member.
Before her marriage she was Miss Eliza Nelson of Plymouth, being the daughter of a Methodist clergyman at a time when religious feeling in New England was very intense, when controversies between various sects were very bitter. Her childhood was passed in a school district in the western part of Plymouth. She attended the district school, and while still a child not infrequently accompanied her father on his circuit, for circuit riding was then a part of regular work of clergymen in New Hampshire. She attended the district school and later her education was extended to the academy.
The vivid impressions which she received of home and social life in the country, of the Sunday service, the annual camp meeting, the harvest field, the quilting bee, the spelling school and the spring sap making, all furnished coloring later for her novel, Lisbeth Wilson, which has been eagerly read by New England people, having also an unusual sale abroad.
On December 20, 1856, and while still young, she married Henry William Blair, then a promising young lawyer, who with his bride made a home in Plymouth. A few years later she found herself a soldier's wife — her husband being in command of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers — and devoted herself earnestly to the work of raising and forwarding relief to the soldiers at the front and at the hospital.
For twenty years she was the wife of a prominent public man at Washington, her husband serving three terms as a member of Congress and two terms as United States Senator. All through her life she has been a leader in all social and philanthropic circles and has served successfully as President of the New Hampshire Daughters of Boston, and has been President of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs and as a member of the National Federation.
Mrs. Blair is also one of the prominent suffragists of this state. She is one of the founders of the Garfield National Hospital and lecturer on literary, economic, humanitarian and ethnological subjects.
Although a large part of her time has of late passed at the Washington home, she has always kept close to the interest and hearts of New England and its people. The Plymouth Record, January 12, 1907, p4.
The body of Mrs. Henry W. Blair was brought for burial Tuesday. It was accompanied from Washington where Mrs. Blair died by her son, Senator Blair. Senator Blair was unable to come because of lameness which has kept him confined to the house much of the time for months. Interment was in the family lot in Campton, the committal service being conducted by the Rev. E.CE. Dorian of the Methodist Episcopal Church of which church Mrs. Blair was a life-long member.
The bearers were the Hon. Alvin Burleigh, Gen. George H. Adams, Mr. Joseph Blair of Lincoln and Elliott C. Balch The Plymouth Record, October 26, 1907.
She was a member of the Woman's Anthropological Society, the Garfield Memorial Hospital, and the National Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C., the Interrogation and Historic Art Clubs of Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Manchester Federation of Women's Clubs, and was the first vice-president of the New Hampshire Federation. She was the author of the book Lisbeth Wilson: A Daughter of New Hampshire Hills.
∼The dispatch announcing the sudden death of Mrs. Henry William Blair, wife of former Senator Blair of this state came as a general shock to her friends and although the news contained was brief, it stated that death came Wednesday afternoon of last week at 3 o'clock at the Washington House, 1410 Twentieth Street. Pneumonia was the cause of death. The funeral was in Washington on Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Blair's death will bring sorrow into many a home, and also remove a most active woman from the church and various organizations of which she was a valued member.
Before her marriage she was Miss Eliza Nelson of Plymouth, being the daughter of a Methodist clergyman at a time when religious feeling in New England was very intense, when controversies between various sects were very bitter. Her childhood was passed in a school district in the western part of Plymouth. She attended the district school, and while still a child not infrequently accompanied her father on his circuit, for circuit riding was then a part of regular work of clergymen in New Hampshire. She attended the district school and later her education was extended to the academy.
The vivid impressions which she received of home and social life in the country, of the Sunday service, the annual camp meeting, the harvest field, the quilting bee, the spelling school and the spring sap making, all furnished coloring later for her novel, Lisbeth Wilson, which has been eagerly read by New England people, having also an unusual sale abroad.
On December 20, 1856, and while still young, she married Henry William Blair, then a promising young lawyer, who with his bride made a home in Plymouth. A few years later she found herself a soldier's wife — her husband being in command of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers — and devoted herself earnestly to the work of raising and forwarding relief to the soldiers at the front and at the hospital.
For twenty years she was the wife of a prominent public man at Washington, her husband serving three terms as a member of Congress and two terms as United States Senator. All through her life she has been a leader in all social and philanthropic circles and has served successfully as President of the New Hampshire Daughters of Boston, and has been President of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs and as a member of the National Federation.
Mrs. Blair is also one of the prominent suffragists of this state. She is one of the founders of the Garfield National Hospital and lecturer on literary, economic, humanitarian and ethnological subjects.
Although a large part of her time has of late passed at the Washington home, she has always kept close to the interest and hearts of New England and its people. The Plymouth Record, January 12, 1907, p4.
The body of Mrs. Henry W. Blair was brought for burial Tuesday. It was accompanied from Washington where Mrs. Blair died by her son, Senator Blair. Senator Blair was unable to come because of lameness which has kept him confined to the house much of the time for months. Interment was in the family lot in Campton, the committal service being conducted by the Rev. E.CE. Dorian of the Methodist Episcopal Church of which church Mrs. Blair was a life-long member.
The bearers were the Hon. Alvin Burleigh, Gen. George H. Adams, Mr. Joseph Blair of Lincoln and Elliott C. Balch The Plymouth Record, October 26, 1907.
Daughter of William & Dolly (Elliot) Nelson. Married Henry Blair December 20, 1859.
She was a member of the Woman's Anthropological Society, the Garfield Memorial Hospital, and the National Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C., the Interrogation and Historic Art Clubs of Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Manchester Federation of Women's Clubs, and was the first vice-president of the New Hampshire Federation. She was the author of the book Lisbeth Wilson: A Daughter of New Hampshire Hills.
∼The dispatch announcing the sudden death of Mrs. Henry William Blair, wife of former Senator Blair of this state came as a general shock to her friends and although the news contained was brief, it stated that death came Wednesday afternoon of last week at 3 o'clock at the Washington House, 1410 Twentieth Street. Pneumonia was the cause of death. The funeral was in Washington on Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Blair's death will bring sorrow into many a home, and also remove a most active woman from the church and various organizations of which she was a valued member.
Before her marriage she was Miss Eliza Nelson of Plymouth, being the daughter of a Methodist clergyman at a time when religious feeling in New England was very intense, when controversies between various sects were very bitter. Her childhood was passed in a school district in the western part of Plymouth. She attended the district school, and while still a child not infrequently accompanied her father on his circuit, for circuit riding was then a part of regular work of clergymen in New Hampshire. She attended the district school and later her education was extended to the academy.
The vivid impressions which she received of home and social life in the country, of the Sunday service, the annual camp meeting, the harvest field, the quilting bee, the spelling school and the spring sap making, all furnished coloring later for her novel, Lisbeth Wilson, which has been eagerly read by New England people, having also an unusual sale abroad.
On December 20, 1856, and while still young, she married Henry William Blair, then a promising young lawyer, who with his bride made a home in Plymouth. A few years later she found herself a soldier's wife — her husband being in command of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers — and devoted herself earnestly to the work of raising and forwarding relief to the soldiers at the front and at the hospital.
For twenty years she was the wife of a prominent public man at Washington, her husband serving three terms as a member of Congress and two terms as United States Senator. All through her life she has been a leader in all social and philanthropic circles and has served successfully as President of the New Hampshire Daughters of Boston, and has been President of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs and as a member of the National Federation.
Mrs. Blair is also one of the prominent suffragists of this state. She is one of the founders of the Garfield National Hospital and lecturer on literary, economic, humanitarian and ethnological subjects.
Although a large part of her time has of late passed at the Washington home, she has always kept close to the interest and hearts of New England and its people. The Plymouth Record, January 12, 1907, p4.
The body of Mrs. Henry W. Blair was brought for burial Tuesday. It was accompanied from Washington where Mrs. Blair died by her son, Senator Blair. Senator Blair was unable to come because of lameness which has kept him confined to the house much of the time for months. Interment was in the family lot in Campton, the committal service being conducted by the Rev. E.CE. Dorian of the Methodist Episcopal Church of which church Mrs. Blair was a life-long member.
The bearers were the Hon. Alvin Burleigh, Gen. George H. Adams, Mr. Joseph Blair of Lincoln and Elliott C. Balch The Plymouth Record, October 26, 1907.
She was a member of the Woman's Anthropological Society, the Garfield Memorial Hospital, and the National Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C., the Interrogation and Historic Art Clubs of Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Manchester Federation of Women's Clubs, and was the first vice-president of the New Hampshire Federation. She was the author of the book Lisbeth Wilson: A Daughter of New Hampshire Hills.
∼The dispatch announcing the sudden death of Mrs. Henry William Blair, wife of former Senator Blair of this state came as a general shock to her friends and although the news contained was brief, it stated that death came Wednesday afternoon of last week at 3 o'clock at the Washington House, 1410 Twentieth Street. Pneumonia was the cause of death. The funeral was in Washington on Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Blair's death will bring sorrow into many a home, and also remove a most active woman from the church and various organizations of which she was a valued member.
Before her marriage she was Miss Eliza Nelson of Plymouth, being the daughter of a Methodist clergyman at a time when religious feeling in New England was very intense, when controversies between various sects were very bitter. Her childhood was passed in a school district in the western part of Plymouth. She attended the district school, and while still a child not infrequently accompanied her father on his circuit, for circuit riding was then a part of regular work of clergymen in New Hampshire. She attended the district school and later her education was extended to the academy.
The vivid impressions which she received of home and social life in the country, of the Sunday service, the annual camp meeting, the harvest field, the quilting bee, the spelling school and the spring sap making, all furnished coloring later for her novel, Lisbeth Wilson, which has been eagerly read by New England people, having also an unusual sale abroad.
On December 20, 1856, and while still young, she married Henry William Blair, then a promising young lawyer, who with his bride made a home in Plymouth. A few years later she found herself a soldier's wife — her husband being in command of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers — and devoted herself earnestly to the work of raising and forwarding relief to the soldiers at the front and at the hospital.
For twenty years she was the wife of a prominent public man at Washington, her husband serving three terms as a member of Congress and two terms as United States Senator. All through her life she has been a leader in all social and philanthropic circles and has served successfully as President of the New Hampshire Daughters of Boston, and has been President of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs and as a member of the National Federation.
Mrs. Blair is also one of the prominent suffragists of this state. She is one of the founders of the Garfield National Hospital and lecturer on literary, economic, humanitarian and ethnological subjects.
Although a large part of her time has of late passed at the Washington home, she has always kept close to the interest and hearts of New England and its people. The Plymouth Record, January 12, 1907, p4.
The body of Mrs. Henry W. Blair was brought for burial Tuesday. It was accompanied from Washington where Mrs. Blair died by her son, Senator Blair. Senator Blair was unable to come because of lameness which has kept him confined to the house much of the time for months. Interment was in the family lot in Campton, the committal service being conducted by the Rev. E.CE. Dorian of the Methodist Episcopal Church of which church Mrs. Blair was a life-long member.
The bearers were the Hon. Alvin Burleigh, Gen. George H. Adams, Mr. Joseph Blair of Lincoln and Elliott C. Balch The Plymouth Record, October 26, 1907.
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