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.
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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.)