Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Blair, George R 1836 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Blair, George R. - The reputation Scotchmen have gained of being frugal and 
thrifty is maintained by those who come to the United States. It is very 
seldom indeed that a Scot is found in need or asks help of others. He is much 
more likely to give it than to require such assistance, for he knows how to 
earn and then save his money, and does not waste it foolishly. One of the 
honored residents of Saratoga Township, who was born in Scotland, is George R. 
Blair, now living retired from active labor. He was born in Fifeshire, 
February 17, 1836, and losing his parents in 1866, on February 3 of that year 
came to the United States, landing at Morris. For some years he mined, and 
then in February, 1875, he bought twenty acres of land in Saratoga Township, 
to which he later added ten acres more. He sunk a shaft and kept on opening up 
shafts until he had four of them in operation, and was actively engaged in 
this manner until 1899, when he retired.

Mr. Blair was married in Scotland in 1858 to Euphemia Spowart of Fifeshire, 
Scotland, and they had four children born to them there, and six after they 
arrived in the United States: Robert G., who is of Saratoga Township; Ellen, 
who is Mrs. George Barton of Chicago; Mary, who died in 1890; Euphemie, who is 
Mrs. Segal Gregg of Saratoga Township; William, who is of Morris; Catherine, 
who is Mrs. M. N. Hull of Morris; Annie, who is Mrs. H. A. Taylor of Morris; 
Elizabeth, who is Mrs. William Ferguson of Saratoga Township; Margaret, who is 
Mrs. Ed Hickhock of De Kalb, Ill.; and George G., who is of Saratoga Township. 
Mr. Blair is a Presbyterian and devoted to his church. A Republican, he has 
given his township valued service as road commissioner. A man of many 
excellent characteristics, he has set an example that all may well follow for 
upright, honorable living, and at the same time accumulated a fair amount of 
this world's goods.

pages 766-767

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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