Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Blair, Watson Franklin 1854 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com November 18, 2007, 10:22 pm Author: Mae Felts Herringshaw (1916) Blair, Watson Franklin, Capitalist of 720 Rush Street was born Jan. 29, 1854, in Michigan City, Ind. He was engaged in the grain commission business on the Chicago Board of Trade as Blair and Company; now retired from active business. He is a Director of the Corn Exchange National Bank, and Vice-President of the Field Museum of Natural History. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HERRINGSHAW'S CITY BLUE BOOK OF BIOGRAPHY CHICAGOANS OF 1916. TEN THOUSAND BIOGRAPHIES EDITED BY MAE FELTS HERRINGSHAW CHICAGO CLARK J. HERRINGSHAW PUBLISHER Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1916, by Mae Felts Herringshaw in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/cook/bios/blair1203gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb