CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: ELIAS BLAIR (1881)

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CRAWFORD COUNTY
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.718 [B surnames]
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

ELIAS BLAIR. hardware dealer. Bucyrus son of Joseph and Rebecca (Bennington) Blair, was born May 1, 1824,
in Knox Co., Ohio. He lived on a farm until his 20th year. In 1845 he went to Mansfield. Ohio. where he engaged in
the manufacture of plows until 1850, when he went to California. by the "overland route" to seek his fortune in the
gold diggings. In 1853 he came to Bucyrus and opened a hardware store and has been engaged in that business
ever since, except a brief period employed in the erection of his present building in 1863. His business block
consists of a fine three-story brick. 10 1/2x155 in dimensions. He has done an extensive business and carries an
immense stock of goods, representing every department of the hardware trade. In 1874. he invented the famous
Blair's hog ringer. He is now manufacturing these rings by automatic machinery at the rate of 60,000 per day.