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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

J. D. BLAKE, M. D., Palmyra, Iowa.— A Among the physicians and surgeons of Iowa,
Dr. Blake has for years occupied an enviable position. His natural adaptation
for the arduous duties of his profession, his close study and long years of
research, his success in the performance of many difficult surgical operations,
his numerous contributions to the different medical journals at various times,
all go to stamp him as one of the eminent physicians and surgeons of his day.

   Dr. Blake was born in Noble county, Ohio, November 28, 1838, one of the large
family of children of Israel and Elvira (Clark) Blake. Israel Blake was born in
Ohio in the year 1800, and his early life was spent amid the privations and
dangers incident to a residence on the frontier. For a number of years their
rude home in the wilderness of the Western reserve was nearly surrounded by
Indians. There he passed his life and died, his death occurring in 1872. His
wife, whose maiden name, as already stated, was Elvira Clark, was, like him, a
native of Ohio, she being the daughter of Aurelius Clark, one of the early
pioneers of that State. The Clarks, who were of English origin, came to this
country at an early period of its history and made settlement in Maine, whence a
few generations later they emigrated to Ohio. Mrs. Blake died in middle life.

   Simeon Blake, the Doctor's grandfather, was a native of the State of Maine
and emigrated in early life to Ohio, which was then considered the extreme
Western frontier. He was one of the occupants of the block house at Marietta,
the first settlement of Ohio; was Captain of a military company, and one of the
leading spirits of the time in which he lived.

At the time of his death he was about sixty years of age. Beyond him the
ancestry of the Blake family is traced through Nathaniel, William, Jr., and
William, Sr., Blake back to the early days of the Colonies on the New England
coast; and in the old country, back to the distinguished Commodore Blake of the
British navy, who, generations ago, was foremost among the men who established
England's supremacy upon the seas.

    Dr. James D. Blake, the immediate subject of this sketch, was educated at
Marietta College in Ohio, where he pursued a four years' course. Then he took up
the study of medicine at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, from which
institution he received his degree in 1869; and previous to his graduation at
Columbus he practiced under his preceptor for four years. In 1870 he came West
and settled in Palmyra, Iowa, where he has since been engaged in the practice of
his profession.

   Dr. Blake was married in 1863 to Miss Hannah E., daughter of James Kelly, of
Zanesville, Ohio, and to them have been born three children, Eugene L., Byron
S., and Lula May. The sons are both members of the legal profession and are
located at Des Moines, where they are working their way to the front.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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