Blackall, Benjamin - 1908

Name: Christopher Rubey Blackall

Occupation: editor
Born: Albany, New York, September 18, 1830
Died:
Son of Benjamin and Sarah Blackall

Education: public schools; Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Hygieo Therapeutic Medical College, New York, 1856, and Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1865; (Doctor of Divinity, Carson and Newman Colleges, 1896, Temple College, 1906)

Married: 1st, 1852, Eliza Davis; 2nd, 1873, Mrs. Emily Lucas Bryant; 3rd, 1900, Mrs. Eugenie Hitchcock McLure.

Assistant surgeon 33d Wisconsin Volunteers, early part Civil War.  Abandoned medicine, 1864.  General superintendent and editor, Chicago Sunday School Union, 1864-5; secretary and manager northwestern district, American Baptist Publication Society, 1865-79; connected with New York and Philadelphia branch houses, 1869-80; editor of periodicals since 1880, American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.  Ordained to Christian ministry, 1880.  Director Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association; member executive committee, Philadelphia Sunday School Association; president Pennsylvania Baptist Council Brotherhood Andrew and Philip.  Member of National Geographic Society.

Author: Our Sunday School Work and How to Do It, 1877, B4; Story of Six Decades, 1885, O1; Balshazzar (cantata) 1890, D2; Stories About Jesus, 1897, B4

Home Address: Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Office Address: 1630 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

~ Who's Who in America, 1908-1909, Copyright 1908, by Albert Nelson Marquis, Page xxviii. (Received too late for insertion in the regular order in the body of the book.)