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William Scott Blair
WILLIAM SCOTT BLAIR, of South Bethlehem, Armstrong county, justice of the
peace, is a respected resident of that section, where he has been in the
employ of the C. E. Andrews Lumber Company for a number of years. He was born
Nov. 10, 1859, in Mahoning township, this county, son of John C. and Sarah
Ellen (Halderman) Blair and grandson of William Blair. William Blair and his
father, Alexander Blair, were pioneers of Armstrong county, settling in what
is now East Franklin township, where they cleared and improved a farm. In his
later life William Blair moved to Clarion county, Pa., where he died. He
married Nancy Campbell, and they had the following children who grew to
maturity: Alexander, John C., Esther (wife of John Motherel), Elizabeth, Jane,
James, Samuel Q., and Margaret.John C. Blair, son of William and Nancy (Campbell) Blair, was born in
Pennsylvania. He was reared in Clarion county, and worked as a collier for
many years, also clearing and improving a farm of 140 acres in Porter
township, Clarion county. He died there when seventy-two years old. His wife
Sarah Ellen (Halderman), daughter of John and Mary (Williams) Halderman, was
born in Pennsylvania, and she also is deceased. Her parents were pioneer
settlers in Mahoning and Wayne townships, this county. Of the children born to
Mr. and Mrs. Blair four grew to maturity: William Scott; Anna B., who married
J. L. Van Dyke; and Charles Edgar and Carrie Edna, twins, the latter the wife
of Winfield M. Lerch. The father served one year during the Civil war as a
member of Company A, 98th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. William Scott Blair
grew up in Porter township, Clarion county, and received his education in the
public schools. He remained on the homestead, assisting his father until he
reached the age of twenty-three years. From 1883 to 1890 he worked the place
on his own account, in the latter year going to Elk county, where he was
employed by the W. H. Hyde Lumber Company, of Ridgway, until 1898. For the
next two years he acted as superintendent of the Ridgway Water Works, and then
for two years was employed in the electrical and dynamo department of the
Ridgway Dynamo & Engine Company. Since 1902 he has resided at South
Bethlehem, in Armstrong county, and has been in the, employ of the C. E.
Andrews Company, of New Bethlehem, as assistant foreman of the planing mill.
He has become very well known in this connection and in various other
activities. In 1908 he was elected justice of the peace for South Bethlehem,
in which office he is still serving, and he is a prominent member of the First
Presbyterian Church of New Bethlehem, of which he has been an elder for seven
years. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, and in political
connection is a Republican. On Jan. 2, 1883, Mr. Blair married Florence May
Phillips, daughter of Jacob and Lovina (McMillan) Phillips, of Porter
township, Clarion Co., Pa. They have four living children: Mabel M., wife of
W. S. Lininger; Frank H.; John Carlton; and Fannie E., wife of Omar G. Beham.Source: Pages 762 – 763, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed February 1999 by Doris Rizza for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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