BIO: Blake W. NORRIS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 891 & 892.
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  BLAKE W. NORRIS,* one of the prominent citizens and substantial farmers of 
Ferguson Township, who for the past five years has served continuously as 
township road supervisor, lives on his valuable farm of 145 acres, which lies 
one and one-half miles northeast of Kerrmoor, Pa.  He was born on Montgomery 
Creek, in Pike Township, Clearfield County, Pa., October 30, 1871, and is a son 
of T. S. and Mary J. (Askey) Norris.
  T. S. Norris was born March 24, 1837, in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County, 
a son of John and Priscilla (Bloom) Norris.  He went to school in both Lawrence 
and Pike Townships and afterward followed farming.  He was a well known and 
highly respected resident of Ferguson Township for many years, a member of the 
Masonic lodge at Curwensville.  He was a Republican in his political views.  In 
youth he had united with the Methodist Episcopal church.  He married Mary J. 
Askey, who was born January 12, 1840, in Center County, Pa., a daughter of Ellis 
and Annie (Wodel) Askey.  The father of Mrs. Norris was a well known pilot on 
the Susquehannah River, who lost his life while at the post of duty, at Lock 
Haven.  He was survived by his widow and nine children, of whom three sons and 
one daughter (Mrs. Norris) still are living.  To T. S. Norris and wife the 
following children were born:  Nora, who married Joseph Soul of Clarke County, 
Mont.; Perry, who married Ella Shoning, and lives on the old Smith farm near New 
Millport; Minnie, who died at the age of nineteen years, and was buried at 
Curwensville; Laura, wife of Oscar Ferguson, of Eureka, Calif.; Wade, who 
married Clara Tobias and lives in Ferguson Township; Grant, who lives at 
Braddock, Pa., and married Katherine Ferguson; Ella, who is the wife of George 
M. DeHaas; Blake W., who married Lulu Curry, a daughter of William Curry; May, 
who is the wife of George Thurston, of Clearfield; and Ida, Caleb, Mary and 
Thomas, the last twins, all four of whom are now deceased, their burial being in 
Williams cemetery, in Ferguson Township.
  Blake W. Norris has spent the larger part of his life on the home farm.  His 
father did all the remodeling of the buildings, which are substantial and 
comfortable.  Mr. Norris has no open coal bank and has about fifty acres yet in 
valuable timber.  He is a stockholder in the C. & C. Telephone Company and is a 
member of Kerrmoor Grange.  He is one of the active Republicans of Ferguson 
Township.