Lacrosse-Trempealeau County WI Archives Biographies.....Blackman, R. R. 
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R. R. BLACKMAN, proprietor of boarding-house on Windsor street, at the head of 
North Third street; is a native of Monroe Co., N. Y. His parents moved to 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., when he was 7 years of age. He came to Wisconsin in 
1867, and was in La Crosse from August to December, then came again in the 
spring of 1868, and has resided here since, except five years, from 1870 to 
1875, in Trempealeau Co. He was married in La Crosse, May 17, 1868, to Mrs. 
Jane Flynn, daughter of David Young, who removed from Pennsylvania to Iowa in 
1840. She was born in Lawrence Co., Penn., in 1836. Her first husband, John 
Flynn, was a native of Vermont; son of Thomas Flynn, and came to La Crosse in 
1857. In August, 1861, he enlisted in the 8th W. V. I. (Eagle Regiment), Co. 
I, re-enlisted in the Veteran Corps, and died Aug. 22, 1865, of chronic 
diarrhea, while home on furlough, at the age of 27. He left two children - 
William Edward, now living in La Crosse, and Cora E., now Mrs. Edward 
Montgomery, of La Crosse. Mr. Blackman has one child - Mary E., at home.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 737 - 738.

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