Only child of WILLIAM HENRY BLAIR & ELIZABETH ALLEN LOTT
Occupation: Salt Lake City Police Dept (Detective Sgt), Oklahoma City Secret Service
Married (1): Sep 2, 1916, ALTA DUELLA BLACKBURN, Ogden, Weber Co., Utah
No children
Married (2): MARGARET CORUM PULLIAM
Two children:
1. Margaret Jean "Jean" BLAIR (aka Virginia M. Price)
1919 - 1977
2. William Elliott "Billy" BLAIR
1926 - 1964
============
Oct 5, 1932: The Oklahoma News, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
U. S. Secret Service Chief Here Dies After 15 Years in State
Carl W. Blair, 50, agent in charge of the U. S. secret service bureau here, died at Welsey Hospital early this morning after a short illness. Blair had been ill at his home at 3329 NW 21st-st, but was removed to the hospital when his condition became critical.
Blair first came to the city 15 years ago on assignment from the agent assigned from the Kansas City division of the secret service bureau. Three years later he was placed in charge of the secret service work in Oklahoma and appointed the head of this division.
Blair soon won friends all over the state. Many peace officers considered him their greatest friend and asked his unofficial aid in solving their own crime problems. He was known as an indefatigable worker and recently worked 53 continuous hours without stopping in rounding up a counterfeiting ring here. Outside of his hours in searching for counterfeiters Blair spent much time at police stations and sheriffs' offices throughout the state keeping in touch with criminals who were being investigated. Recently in a shoe store holdup Blair was on the job and listened as police and county officers sought to find clues to the identity of the man. Blair asked permission and soon won an admission from a suspect that solved the holdup. He disliked publicity and refused to allow his name to be connected with the arrest, telling newspaper reporters to give the credit to local police and deputy sheriffs. This was a characteristic of Blair and won him the cooperation of officers throughout the state.
Blair's illness became critical and he was taken from his home at midnight to the hospital but died three hours later from heart disease, attendants reported. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Jean, 12, and a son, Billy, 6. The body is at Hahn Funeral Home.
============
Oct 6, 1932: The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
Funeral Is Set Friday For Secret Service Bureau Head
Death Closes Carl Blair's Colorful Career as Nemesis of the Counterfeiters.
Ref. T.L. Holcomb, pastor of First Baptist church, will conduct services from the Hahn funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday for Carl W. Blair, head of the federal secret service bureau here, who died of heart disease in a local hospital Tuesday night. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. He had been ill ten days.
Coming here six years ago from St. Paul, Minn., where he had been engaged in government work, Blair organized the secret service bureau here and had headed it since. Many counterfeiters had been placed in jail as a result of his work.
Blair is survived by his wife, one son, Billy, a daughter, Jean Blair, of the home address, 3329 West Twenty first street and a sister Mrs. Julia Hoy, San Dimas, Calif.
Gruffness, hiding an unfailing good humor, Blair's big frame filled the chair in the secret service bureau here for six years, a living nemesis to the smartest criminal in business—the counterfeiter.
His unexpected death Wednesday morning after an illness of several days thought to be not serious closed a career of violent activity of more than 36 years. For 15 years that career had been bound to the secret service extending to the four corners of the nation. For 15 years the records of Blair's successes, of his relentless application to his tasks, piled up in the files of the Washington bureau until only New York and Chicago could boast more active secret service agencies than that in Oklahoma.
When he was 14 years old, young Carl Blair faced his first herculean task. His father died and left him the oldest member of the family to run a northern Colorado cattle ranch. The story of those years alone, of winters when the mercury sank out of sight and blizzards whipped into the mountain valleys, of the endless struggles to bring the cattle through without staggering losses, of the fights with cattle thieves, and of the war with the sheep raisers, would fill a volume in the life of a grown man, and Blair was in his 'teens. All sorts of jobs led him later over the western part of the country. He faced death dozens of times—until it no longer held any terror for him.
Once, a quick movement of the hand, thrusting the web between thumb and index finger between the hammer and plunger of a heavy revolver, saved him from almost certain death at the hands of a criminal. He carried to his grave an ugly scar on his hand where the hammer ripped the flesh. Another time, he and a youth of his own age, fought their way through miles of a mountain blizzard to get medicine for a stranger who had stumbled into their Colorado ranch. Their fingers, toes and ears were frozen.
Blair had been in government service for 15 years, serving first as an agent at Seattle, Wash., then at Salt Lake City, Utah, and, for a time, at Kansas City, Mo. From there he was transferred to St. Paul. When a series of rings dealing in counterfeit money began extended operation in this territory six years ago, the government ordered a bureau established in this district, Blair, still at St. Paul, asked for a transfer to this point and it was granted.
Federal officials said Wednesday night no word had been received from Washington regarding Blair's successor. Local bureau agents will operate the office until a new bureau head is named.
============
Oct 12, 1932: Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Former Dectective Dies in Oklahoma
Carl W. Blair, agent in charge of the U.S. secret service office at Oklahoma City and for many years a member of the Salt Lake detective force, died recently at Oklahoma City from a heart ailment, according to word received Wednesday by Captain Henry C. Taggart, chief of the local secret service office.
Mr. Blair was appointed to the secret service in September, 1920, and worked as an agent in the local office for a short time before being transferred to Kansas City. He worked on several important cases while serving as a local officer and a member of the Pinkerton Detective agency.
While a resident of Salt Lake, Mr. Blair served under Joseph C. Sharp, chief of detectives. He had many friends in this section. He is survived by his widow and two children. Funeral services were held in Oklahoma City.
============
Occupation: Salt Lake City Police Dept (Detective Sgt), Oklahoma City Secret Service
Married (1): Sep 2, 1916, ALTA DUELLA BLACKBURN, Ogden, Weber Co., Utah
No children
Married (2): MARGARET CORUM PULLIAM
Two children:
1. Margaret Jean "Jean" BLAIR (aka Virginia M. Price)
1919 - 1977
2. William Elliott "Billy" BLAIR
1926 - 1964
============
Oct 5, 1932: The Oklahoma News, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
U. S. Secret Service Chief Here Dies After 15 Years in State
Carl W. Blair, 50, agent in charge of the U. S. secret service bureau here, died at Welsey Hospital early this morning after a short illness. Blair had been ill at his home at 3329 NW 21st-st, but was removed to the hospital when his condition became critical.
Blair first came to the city 15 years ago on assignment from the agent assigned from the Kansas City division of the secret service bureau. Three years later he was placed in charge of the secret service work in Oklahoma and appointed the head of this division.
Blair soon won friends all over the state. Many peace officers considered him their greatest friend and asked his unofficial aid in solving their own crime problems. He was known as an indefatigable worker and recently worked 53 continuous hours without stopping in rounding up a counterfeiting ring here. Outside of his hours in searching for counterfeiters Blair spent much time at police stations and sheriffs' offices throughout the state keeping in touch with criminals who were being investigated. Recently in a shoe store holdup Blair was on the job and listened as police and county officers sought to find clues to the identity of the man. Blair asked permission and soon won an admission from a suspect that solved the holdup. He disliked publicity and refused to allow his name to be connected with the arrest, telling newspaper reporters to give the credit to local police and deputy sheriffs. This was a characteristic of Blair and won him the cooperation of officers throughout the state.
Blair's illness became critical and he was taken from his home at midnight to the hospital but died three hours later from heart disease, attendants reported. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Jean, 12, and a son, Billy, 6. The body is at Hahn Funeral Home.
============
Oct 6, 1932: The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
Funeral Is Set Friday For Secret Service Bureau Head
Death Closes Carl Blair's Colorful Career as Nemesis of the Counterfeiters.
Ref. T.L. Holcomb, pastor of First Baptist church, will conduct services from the Hahn funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday for Carl W. Blair, head of the federal secret service bureau here, who died of heart disease in a local hospital Tuesday night. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. He had been ill ten days.
Coming here six years ago from St. Paul, Minn., where he had been engaged in government work, Blair organized the secret service bureau here and had headed it since. Many counterfeiters had been placed in jail as a result of his work.
Blair is survived by his wife, one son, Billy, a daughter, Jean Blair, of the home address, 3329 West Twenty first street and a sister Mrs. Julia Hoy, San Dimas, Calif.
Gruffness, hiding an unfailing good humor, Blair's big frame filled the chair in the secret service bureau here for six years, a living nemesis to the smartest criminal in business—the counterfeiter.
His unexpected death Wednesday morning after an illness of several days thought to be not serious closed a career of violent activity of more than 36 years. For 15 years that career had been bound to the secret service extending to the four corners of the nation. For 15 years the records of Blair's successes, of his relentless application to his tasks, piled up in the files of the Washington bureau until only New York and Chicago could boast more active secret service agencies than that in Oklahoma.
When he was 14 years old, young Carl Blair faced his first herculean task. His father died and left him the oldest member of the family to run a northern Colorado cattle ranch. The story of those years alone, of winters when the mercury sank out of sight and blizzards whipped into the mountain valleys, of the endless struggles to bring the cattle through without staggering losses, of the fights with cattle thieves, and of the war with the sheep raisers, would fill a volume in the life of a grown man, and Blair was in his 'teens. All sorts of jobs led him later over the western part of the country. He faced death dozens of times—until it no longer held any terror for him.
Once, a quick movement of the hand, thrusting the web between thumb and index finger between the hammer and plunger of a heavy revolver, saved him from almost certain death at the hands of a criminal. He carried to his grave an ugly scar on his hand where the hammer ripped the flesh. Another time, he and a youth of his own age, fought their way through miles of a mountain blizzard to get medicine for a stranger who had stumbled into their Colorado ranch. Their fingers, toes and ears were frozen.
Blair had been in government service for 15 years, serving first as an agent at Seattle, Wash., then at Salt Lake City, Utah, and, for a time, at Kansas City, Mo. From there he was transferred to St. Paul. When a series of rings dealing in counterfeit money began extended operation in this territory six years ago, the government ordered a bureau established in this district, Blair, still at St. Paul, asked for a transfer to this point and it was granted.
Federal officials said Wednesday night no word had been received from Washington regarding Blair's successor. Local bureau agents will operate the office until a new bureau head is named.
============
Oct 12, 1932: Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Former Dectective Dies in Oklahoma
Carl W. Blair, agent in charge of the U.S. secret service office at Oklahoma City and for many years a member of the Salt Lake detective force, died recently at Oklahoma City from a heart ailment, according to word received Wednesday by Captain Henry C. Taggart, chief of the local secret service office.
Mr. Blair was appointed to the secret service in September, 1920, and worked as an agent in the local office for a short time before being transferred to Kansas City. He worked on several important cases while serving as a local officer and a member of the Pinkerton Detective agency.
While a resident of Salt Lake, Mr. Blair served under Joseph C. Sharp, chief of detectives. He had many friends in this section. He is survived by his widow and two children. Funeral services were held in Oklahoma City.
============
Only child of WILLIAM HENRY BLAIR & ELIZABETH ALLEN LOTT
Occupation: Salt Lake City Police Dept (Detective Sgt), Oklahoma City Secret Service
Married (1): Sep 2, 1916, ALTA DUELLA BLACKBURN, Ogden, Weber Co., Utah
No children
Married (2): MARGARET CORUM PULLIAM
Two children:
1. Margaret Jean "Jean" BLAIR (aka Virginia M. Price)
1919 - 1977
2. William Elliott "Billy" BLAIR
1926 - 1964
============
Oct 5, 1932: The Oklahoma News, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
U. S. Secret Service Chief Here Dies After 15 Years in State
Carl W. Blair, 50, agent in charge of the U. S. secret service bureau here, died at Welsey Hospital early this morning after a short illness. Blair had been ill at his home at 3329 NW 21st-st, but was removed to the hospital when his condition became critical.
Blair first came to the city 15 years ago on assignment from the agent assigned from the Kansas City division of the secret service bureau. Three years later he was placed in charge of the secret service work in Oklahoma and appointed the head of this division.
Blair soon won friends all over the state. Many peace officers considered him their greatest friend and asked his unofficial aid in solving their own crime problems. He was known as an indefatigable worker and recently worked 53 continuous hours without stopping in rounding up a counterfeiting ring here. Outside of his hours in searching for counterfeiters Blair spent much time at police stations and sheriffs' offices throughout the state keeping in touch with criminals who were being investigated. Recently in a shoe store holdup Blair was on the job and listened as police and county officers sought to find clues to the identity of the man. Blair asked permission and soon won an admission from a suspect that solved the holdup. He disliked publicity and refused to allow his name to be connected with the arrest, telling newspaper reporters to give the credit to local police and deputy sheriffs. This was a characteristic of Blair and won him the cooperation of officers throughout the state.
Blair's illness became critical and he was taken from his home at midnight to the hospital but died three hours later from heart disease, attendants reported. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Jean, 12, and a son, Billy, 6. The body is at Hahn Funeral Home.
============
Oct 6, 1932: The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
Funeral Is Set Friday For Secret Service Bureau Head
Death Closes Carl Blair's Colorful Career as Nemesis of the Counterfeiters.
Ref. T.L. Holcomb, pastor of First Baptist church, will conduct services from the Hahn funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday for Carl W. Blair, head of the federal secret service bureau here, who died of heart disease in a local hospital Tuesday night. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. He had been ill ten days.
Coming here six years ago from St. Paul, Minn., where he had been engaged in government work, Blair organized the secret service bureau here and had headed it since. Many counterfeiters had been placed in jail as a result of his work.
Blair is survived by his wife, one son, Billy, a daughter, Jean Blair, of the home address, 3329 West Twenty first street and a sister Mrs. Julia Hoy, San Dimas, Calif.
Gruffness, hiding an unfailing good humor, Blair's big frame filled the chair in the secret service bureau here for six years, a living nemesis to the smartest criminal in business—the counterfeiter.
His unexpected death Wednesday morning after an illness of several days thought to be not serious closed a career of violent activity of more than 36 years. For 15 years that career had been bound to the secret service extending to the four corners of the nation. For 15 years the records of Blair's successes, of his relentless application to his tasks, piled up in the files of the Washington bureau until only New York and Chicago could boast more active secret service agencies than that in Oklahoma.
When he was 14 years old, young Carl Blair faced his first herculean task. His father died and left him the oldest member of the family to run a northern Colorado cattle ranch. The story of those years alone, of winters when the mercury sank out of sight and blizzards whipped into the mountain valleys, of the endless struggles to bring the cattle through without staggering losses, of the fights with cattle thieves, and of the war with the sheep raisers, would fill a volume in the life of a grown man, and Blair was in his 'teens. All sorts of jobs led him later over the western part of the country. He faced death dozens of times—until it no longer held any terror for him.
Once, a quick movement of the hand, thrusting the web between thumb and index finger between the hammer and plunger of a heavy revolver, saved him from almost certain death at the hands of a criminal. He carried to his grave an ugly scar on his hand where the hammer ripped the flesh. Another time, he and a youth of his own age, fought their way through miles of a mountain blizzard to get medicine for a stranger who had stumbled into their Colorado ranch. Their fingers, toes and ears were frozen.
Blair had been in government service for 15 years, serving first as an agent at Seattle, Wash., then at Salt Lake City, Utah, and, for a time, at Kansas City, Mo. From there he was transferred to St. Paul. When a series of rings dealing in counterfeit money began extended operation in this territory six years ago, the government ordered a bureau established in this district, Blair, still at St. Paul, asked for a transfer to this point and it was granted.
Federal officials said Wednesday night no word had been received from Washington regarding Blair's successor. Local bureau agents will operate the office until a new bureau head is named.
============
Oct 12, 1932: Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Former Dectective Dies in Oklahoma
Carl W. Blair, agent in charge of the U.S. secret service office at Oklahoma City and for many years a member of the Salt Lake detective force, died recently at Oklahoma City from a heart ailment, according to word received Wednesday by Captain Henry C. Taggart, chief of the local secret service office.
Mr. Blair was appointed to the secret service in September, 1920, and worked as an agent in the local office for a short time before being transferred to Kansas City. He worked on several important cases while serving as a local officer and a member of the Pinkerton Detective agency.
While a resident of Salt Lake, Mr. Blair served under Joseph C. Sharp, chief of detectives. He had many friends in this section. He is survived by his widow and two children. Funeral services were held in Oklahoma City.
============
Occupation: Salt Lake City Police Dept (Detective Sgt), Oklahoma City Secret Service
Married (1): Sep 2, 1916, ALTA DUELLA BLACKBURN, Ogden, Weber Co., Utah
No children
Married (2): MARGARET CORUM PULLIAM
Two children:
1. Margaret Jean "Jean" BLAIR (aka Virginia M. Price)
1919 - 1977
2. William Elliott "Billy" BLAIR
1926 - 1964
============
Oct 5, 1932: The Oklahoma News, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
U. S. Secret Service Chief Here Dies After 15 Years in State
Carl W. Blair, 50, agent in charge of the U. S. secret service bureau here, died at Welsey Hospital early this morning after a short illness. Blair had been ill at his home at 3329 NW 21st-st, but was removed to the hospital when his condition became critical.
Blair first came to the city 15 years ago on assignment from the agent assigned from the Kansas City division of the secret service bureau. Three years later he was placed in charge of the secret service work in Oklahoma and appointed the head of this division.
Blair soon won friends all over the state. Many peace officers considered him their greatest friend and asked his unofficial aid in solving their own crime problems. He was known as an indefatigable worker and recently worked 53 continuous hours without stopping in rounding up a counterfeiting ring here. Outside of his hours in searching for counterfeiters Blair spent much time at police stations and sheriffs' offices throughout the state keeping in touch with criminals who were being investigated. Recently in a shoe store holdup Blair was on the job and listened as police and county officers sought to find clues to the identity of the man. Blair asked permission and soon won an admission from a suspect that solved the holdup. He disliked publicity and refused to allow his name to be connected with the arrest, telling newspaper reporters to give the credit to local police and deputy sheriffs. This was a characteristic of Blair and won him the cooperation of officers throughout the state.
Blair's illness became critical and he was taken from his home at midnight to the hospital but died three hours later from heart disease, attendants reported. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Jean, 12, and a son, Billy, 6. The body is at Hahn Funeral Home.
============
Oct 6, 1932: The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
Funeral Is Set Friday For Secret Service Bureau Head
Death Closes Carl Blair's Colorful Career as Nemesis of the Counterfeiters.
Ref. T.L. Holcomb, pastor of First Baptist church, will conduct services from the Hahn funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday for Carl W. Blair, head of the federal secret service bureau here, who died of heart disease in a local hospital Tuesday night. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. He had been ill ten days.
Coming here six years ago from St. Paul, Minn., where he had been engaged in government work, Blair organized the secret service bureau here and had headed it since. Many counterfeiters had been placed in jail as a result of his work.
Blair is survived by his wife, one son, Billy, a daughter, Jean Blair, of the home address, 3329 West Twenty first street and a sister Mrs. Julia Hoy, San Dimas, Calif.
Gruffness, hiding an unfailing good humor, Blair's big frame filled the chair in the secret service bureau here for six years, a living nemesis to the smartest criminal in business—the counterfeiter.
His unexpected death Wednesday morning after an illness of several days thought to be not serious closed a career of violent activity of more than 36 years. For 15 years that career had been bound to the secret service extending to the four corners of the nation. For 15 years the records of Blair's successes, of his relentless application to his tasks, piled up in the files of the Washington bureau until only New York and Chicago could boast more active secret service agencies than that in Oklahoma.
When he was 14 years old, young Carl Blair faced his first herculean task. His father died and left him the oldest member of the family to run a northern Colorado cattle ranch. The story of those years alone, of winters when the mercury sank out of sight and blizzards whipped into the mountain valleys, of the endless struggles to bring the cattle through without staggering losses, of the fights with cattle thieves, and of the war with the sheep raisers, would fill a volume in the life of a grown man, and Blair was in his 'teens. All sorts of jobs led him later over the western part of the country. He faced death dozens of times—until it no longer held any terror for him.
Once, a quick movement of the hand, thrusting the web between thumb and index finger between the hammer and plunger of a heavy revolver, saved him from almost certain death at the hands of a criminal. He carried to his grave an ugly scar on his hand where the hammer ripped the flesh. Another time, he and a youth of his own age, fought their way through miles of a mountain blizzard to get medicine for a stranger who had stumbled into their Colorado ranch. Their fingers, toes and ears were frozen.
Blair had been in government service for 15 years, serving first as an agent at Seattle, Wash., then at Salt Lake City, Utah, and, for a time, at Kansas City, Mo. From there he was transferred to St. Paul. When a series of rings dealing in counterfeit money began extended operation in this territory six years ago, the government ordered a bureau established in this district, Blair, still at St. Paul, asked for a transfer to this point and it was granted.
Federal officials said Wednesday night no word had been received from Washington regarding Blair's successor. Local bureau agents will operate the office until a new bureau head is named.
============
Oct 12, 1932: Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Former Dectective Dies in Oklahoma
Carl W. Blair, agent in charge of the U.S. secret service office at Oklahoma City and for many years a member of the Salt Lake detective force, died recently at Oklahoma City from a heart ailment, according to word received Wednesday by Captain Henry C. Taggart, chief of the local secret service office.
Mr. Blair was appointed to the secret service in September, 1920, and worked as an agent in the local office for a short time before being transferred to Kansas City. He worked on several important cases while serving as a local officer and a member of the Pinkerton Detective agency.
While a resident of Salt Lake, Mr. Blair served under Joseph C. Sharp, chief of detectives. He had many friends in this section. He is survived by his widow and two children. Funeral services were held in Oklahoma City.
============
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
