Blackall, Christopher Rubey - 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.)

You can visit the memorial page for Christopher Rubey Blackall.