Biographical Sketch of Samuel T. Blair, M.D., De Kalb County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888,
				Goodspeed Publishing Company

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Samuel T. Blair, M.D., a well-known physician of Osborne, was born in
what is now Loudon County, TN., on May 3, 1838.  He is the son of Rev.
James and Jane G. (Blair) Blair, both of Scotch descent, and natives
of what was afterward Washington County, TN.  After their marriage in
Monroe County they located on a farm on the Tennessee River, where
they resided till their deaths.  The father died in March, 1871, in 
his fifty-eighth year, and the mother in the spring of 1859, in her 
fifty-third year.  The father was a minister in the Cumberland Presby-
terian Church for nearly forty years, and served as pastor of different 
charges in Monroe and adjoining counties.  Samuel T. is the third of 
seven children.  He grew to manhood on his father's farm, and his 
education, begun in the country schools, was finished at Ewing and
Jefferson College, in which college he afterward served as professor
for a short time.  In the fall of 1861 he entered the Confederate
States army, enlisting in the First East Tennessee Artillery.  He
participated in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga and numerous lesser
engagements.  After the battle of Shiloh he was transferred from 
artillery to cavalry, and served subsequently in the Second Tennessee
Cavalry, under Col. H. M. Ashby.  He received a serious wound on the
Dalton and Atlanta retreat, and was never able to re-enter the service.
After his return home in 1865 he began the study of medicine under Dr.
Benjamin Franklin, now of Cameron, MO.  He graduated from the medical 
department of the Nashville University in March, 1867, and the next
May began to practice at Lenoir's Station, Loudon County.  The follow-
ing fall he entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and
graduated the next March.  In the spring of 1870 he removed to Loudon,
Tenn., where he continued the practice of his profession until May, 1881,
when he immigrated to Missouri and located at Osborne.  After coming to
Osborne, Dr. Blair filled the chair of obstetrics for four consecutive
years in the Northwestern Medical College of St. Joseph, MO.  He is now
a member of the Northwestern Medical Society of St. Joseph.  On October
11, 1870, he wedded Miss Louisa M. Osborne, a native of Loudon County.
They have had eight children, two sons and six daughters, of whom one
son and three daughters are dead.  Dr. Blair is a Democrat.  Himself,
wife, son and daughter are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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