Howard-Boone-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Blazer, Benjain F. 1854 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow (circa 1909)

BENJAMIN F. BLAZER.

   Among those persons who have by virtue of their strong individual qualities
earned their way to a high standing in the estimation of their fellow citizens,
having by sheer force of character and persistency won their way from an humble
beginning to a place of influence and prominence in the community where they are
active in industrial affairs, the subject of this sketch is entitled to special
mention in a volume of this character.

   Benjamin F. Blazer is a native of Tennessee, where he was born August 24,
1854, and for thirty-eight years, from 1870 to 1908, he has been in the meat
business in Kokomo, having, during that time gained a wide reputation for his
honest methods and excellent business principles, at the same time gaining and
holding a large circle of friends as a result of his many likable traits of
character. Mr. Blazer is the son of John and Magdalena (Neice) Blazer, the
father having left Tennessee before the war between the states broke out and he
enlisted in the Union army, having been a gallant soldier in a company of the
Fifty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was killed near where he was born in
Tennessee, thus, like thousands of his noble comrades, rendering his life a
sacrifice for his country, which is one of the greatest privileges given to man.
He left a widow and six small children, who moved to Boone county, Indiana. Not
being able to properly care for her large family, she sent her children to live
with various relatives, our subject going to live with one of his cousins. He
was sent to school while working for this family until he was old enough to do
for himself, when he went to work for a dairyman in Boone county. He worked with
a German butcher and learned the business in a thorough manner, remaining with
him three years, after which he worked by the day. Owing to the fact that he
came to Kokomo in 1870,he is therefore the oldest butcher in this city, now
located at 920 South Main street, where he owns the fixtures of a modern and
model shop. He also owns a modern, commodious and nicely furnished residence on
Washington street, and he owns three splendid residence properties which he rents.

   He has mastered the details of his line until he has successfully managed his
affairs, which has resulted in the accumulation of a substantial competency, all
due to his unaided efforts.

   Mr. Blazer was united in the bonds of wedlock with Alice Crone in 1870, who
was born and reared in Frankfort, Clinton county, Indiana, having attended
school there and received a fairly good education. At the time of their marriage
they had only five dollars with which to begin the battle of life, but
possessing indomitable courage and. grit, they set to work with a will and have
succeeded admirably well. Four children have been born to this union, all bright
and promising. One son and one daughter live in California, and one son and one
daughter are yet members of the home circle, the youngest son being associated
with his father in business.

   The members of the Blazer family subscribe to the Grace Methodist church,
having been consistent members of the same for years.

   Fraternally Mr. Blazer is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Rebekah lodge of Kokomo. The subject has found time to travel some,
having made a trip to California, and being a close observer he has thus become
widened in his general views; besides, he keeps abreast of the times by home
reading. He is a pleasant and affable business man and he has built up an
excellent trade, having many loyal customers from all parts of the city and
community in which he lives, having friends by the score, but no enemies, owing
to his upright life and honest principles, which he has always maintained during
his long residence in Kokomo.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)



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