Mr. William Blackie   Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
 

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Blackie & Nadler. Plaquemine Foundry and Machine shops were established in 
this town in 1887 by Mr. William Blackie and in 1888 Mr. Henry Nadler became
a member of this firm. They employ eleven skillful workmen and they have a 
large and increasing business done in machinery and castings of all kinds. 
These gentlemen have wide experience and good judgment and in their dealings 
will be found prompt, reliable and straightforward. Mr. Blackie is general 
manager. He was born in Edinborough, Scotland, on the 10th of October, 1827, 
and is the son of Joseph Blackie, who was a printer by trade. Several of the 
latter's sons and relatives followed that trade also. William Blackie 
secured a liberal education in Edinborough, and when a boy his parents 
moved to Glasgow, where he learned to be a machinist. In 1849 he came to 
the United States, first located at New Orleans but afterward moved to Baton
Rouge, where he was in the foundry business until 1887. He then came to 
Plaquemine, and here he has continued up to the present. He is a democrat 
in politics, and socially is a member of the Masonic fraternity. During the 
war he was in the ordnance department making fighting material for the 
confederate army. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. The junior 
member of the firm, Henry Nadler, was born in Peru, Ill., February 26, 
1863, and is a son of Joseph Nadler who was a native of Austria, and who 
came to the states about 1840. He was a gunsmith by trade. Henry Nadler 
received his education in the schools of Peru, Ill., and while in that city 
began learning the machinist's trade. In 1888 he came south and located in 
Plaquemine, where he became a partner of Mr. Blackie. Both these gentlemen 
are practical machinists and enjoy the highest reputation as able business 
men and useful citizens. Mr. Nadler is a democrat in politics. 

From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p. 294.