BLACKWELL FAMILY Henry B. Blackwell Biographical papersMr Parton - Mrs Stowe - Mrs Cutler Mr Greeley - Louisa Olcott - " Severance Higginson - Gail Hamilton - " Phynipea Brown Grace Greenwood " Caroline Holly Sam Johnson - Aunt Fanny - " Sallie Holly Rob Collyer - Lucretia Mott [Stafford] Bern Butler Mary Grew Stephen Foster Carl Schurz Lydia M Child Mrs Jay Hassawak Mrs Dall H W Beecher M Phillips Mrs E C Stanton O B Fothingham Susan B Anthony R W Emerson Sarah G?enke Wm. L Garrison Angelina " Theo Tilton Abbey Kelly Foster Geo Wm Curtis Ann Preston Dr Dorrann Mrs Chapman A R. Spofford Mrs Sciresholm Thesa Wright Phobe Falin Carey C. C Burleigh Enuk Protonsens Sidney Gay Wm Elder Ch. Strong E.P. Whipple Jms. J Lliffe Force E. W. K. Whipple Robert Dale Owen Warriner S.P Chase Mallon Elizier Wright Thad Stevens Theo Weld Chs. SumnerLint in HBB's WritingHENRY B. BLACKWELL AND LUCY STONE - CONTEMPORARIES (list made by Henry B. Blackwell) Mr. Parton Samuel Johnson Horace Greeley Robert Collyer Thomas Wentworth Higginson Ben Butler Carl Schurz Hassanrek Henry Ward Beecher Ralph Waldo Emerson O.B. Frothingham Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison Theo Tilton George Wm. Curtis Dr. Dorrance Ainsworth R. Spofford Theo Wright Sidney Gay C.C. Burleigh William Elder Jno. Jolliffe Robert Dale Owen Salmon P. Chase Elizur Wright Theo Weld Harriet Beecher Stowe Louisa May Alcott Gail Hamilton Grace Greenwood Aunt Fanny Lucretia Mott Mary Grew Lydia Maria Child Caroline H. Dall Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Sarah Grimke Maria W. Chapman Angelina Grimke (Weld) Abby Kelley Foster Phebe and Alice Carey Mrs. Swisshelm Edith Protonars ? E.P. Whipple Thaddeus Stevens C.W.K. Whipple A. Strong Charles Sumner Mallon Force Warriner? Margaret W. Campbell Mrs. Hannah M. Tracy Cutler Antoinette L. Brown Olympia Brown Sallie Holley Stephen Foster Samuel May Jr. Caroline Holley Samuel J. May Caroline M. Severance Excerpt from letter to A July 4/00 How different from mine, which began at 14. I was in dig of 3 much at 20 - buying meat & corn & flaxseed & selling flour & meal & oil on a great scale for the firm of 2 illiterate members relied almost wholly on me. Well that was 55 yrs ago. Several things have happened since then!Henry B. Blackwell [is the son of] was born in Bristol, England, in 1825. His father was a sugar refiner of that city, so highly esteemed that when he decided to go to New York in 1832, the Bristol merchants offered him any amount of money at 2 percent for use in his business, if he would remain there. For six years the family resided in & near New York [in New York}. In 1838, the father with his wife [& mother]and nine children removed to Cincinnati [where the father] with the intention of putting up there a refinery for the Louisiana sugars, but he died a month later. The mother & elder sisters established a private school & kept the family together. This son was brought up in a Cincinnati banking house and [was] afterwards engaged in business [there] in the West, at one time introducing 1500 agricultural libraries in the state of Illinois. Returning East in 1856 after his marriage with Lucy Stone, the [lady who] pioneer [lecturer] advocate of woman's rights, he engaged in real estate and sugar refining in New York City and its vicinities. [cross-writing] The sisters Doctors Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell were the first women who ever [secured] took a thorough course of medical study, securing diplomas and opening the medical profession to women.In 1870 he removed to Boston with a competence, & in connection with his wife [and] established the Woman's Journal, a weekly paper devoted to the advocacy of equal rights for woman. In connection with Mr. Fred L Ames of Cincinnati and George S. Hunt of Portland [Me] he established the Maine Beet Sugar Co. which [first] made several hundred thousand dollars worth of sugar, but found [the sort of New England] it impossible to secure an adequate supply of beets in the thin soil of New England. [His] Extensive real estate interests in Boston and elsewhere [have given him] with the [editoreal?] & financial care of the paper have occupied him since he [took] made [up] his residence in New England. [He has since] He has taken an active part in equal sufferage campaigns in Kansas, Nebraska, Vermont, [Colorad] Rhode Island, Colorado, Dakota, Montana, Oregon and Washington. As [He is] of 6 years of age, he is still vigorous, active and alert. [cross-writing] In the management of his paper he [has been] [even] associated with his wife from 1870 to 1895 and since her death with their daughter Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. Mr. Blackwell's services to the sufferage cause have [had to] been given without money compensation but he has always contributed largely with treasury, regarding it as the most important of all reforms.(In handwriting of A.S.B.) Aug 26, 1900 Papa won 20 silk hats in bets on Polk's election. 20 five dollar bets, each $5 bet being supposed to be to buy a silk hat. He bought one silk hat and kept the other $95. He says that at that time he was, by way of asserting his individuality, by favoring the annexation of Texas - "to improve the condition of the negroes by scattering them" - taking the Democratic Review, and calling himself a Democrat, almost all the people around him being Henry Clay, Whigs. He was not old enough to vote, but made these 20 election bets. Woman's Journal - Oct. 11, 1902 p.321 Mr. Henry B. Blackwell (Some time ago, the Woman's Journal published a series of brief biographies of well-known suffragists. That of Mr. Blackwell, though it had been advertised, never appeared. The reason was that when the time came he refused to allow the publication of any account of his life. This week the junior editor takes advantage of her father's absence in Kansas to give a biographical sketch of him. It is done without his knowledge or consent, and with the certainty of incurring his indignation when he comes home. As Mr. Blackwell at the next annual meeting of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association will retire from its corresponding secretaryship, in which office he has served without salary for more than thirty years, the time seems appropriate for a brief account of his life and services to the cause.) Henry B. Blackwell was born May 4, 1825, in Bristol, England. He was the son of Samuel Blackwell and Hannah Lane. His father was a sugar-refiner, so highly esteemed for his integrity that when he met with business reverses and decided to try his fortune in America, a number of the leading Bristol merchants combined and offered to lend him at 2 per cent, any amount of money he wished if he would stay among them. Being an advanced Liberal however, and an admirer of American institutions, he held to his purpose to emigrate. In 1832, with his wife and children, he landed in New York, where he engaged in sugar-refining, and set up the first vacuum-pans ever used in America. He has been a "Clarkson Abolitionist" in England, and he and his family took an active part in the anti-slavery movement after their arrival in this country. In 1838he moved to Cincinnati, O., intending to refine the Louisiana "cistern bottoms," and hoping eventually to introduce the making of beet-sugar, thus dealing a heavy blow at slavery by making the slave grown cane sugar unprofitable. But he died almost immediately after reaching Cincinnati. His widow was left with nine children and (a family tradition says) with only one five-dollar bill in the house. The mother and the three elder daughters opened a school. One of these daughter later became Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician. Another, Dr. Emily Blackwell, was for many years dean of the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. The eldest son married the Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, the first ordained woman minister, so that the family history has been closely interwoven with the history of the woman movement in America - the movement not only for woman suffrage, but for the admission of women to medicine and the ministry. Henry, a bright thirteen-year old boy, at first assisted his widowed mother by acting as cook for the family. He concocted savory-stews in a broken coffee-pot, and boasted that he could make three or four different kinds of bread, all good. Soon after, he became an office-boy; there was employed in a bank; later engaged with profit in the milling business, and finally became travelling partner in a hardware firm, building up a large trade in the Wabash Valley. For seven years he travelled on horseback all through Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, often over unfortunately muddy road, and sometimes riding swiftly astonishing distances through the unbroken forest to secure some business advantagefor his firm. He was a young man of brilliant talents. With a fine voice for singing and speaking, of unbounded energy, and a temperament bubbling over with wit and fun, he was a great favorite socially. Though his journeys took him through many malarious regions where it was generally believed that the only way for people to escape fever and ague was to keep themselves soaked with whiskey, he eschewed the whiskey and never caught the ague. In 1853 he took an active part in the Free Soil Movement. A joint meeting the "Know Nothings" and the Free Soilers was held in Cincinnati to try to make a coalition. The meeting was stormy and the effort for union seemed about to fail, when Mr. Blackwell got the floor and made an eloquent speech that carried the audiences away and accomplished the fusion. The coalition there effected sent from Cincinnati to Columbus the delegation that made Salmon P. Chase Governor of Ohio - the position from which he afterwards rose to be Chief Justice of the United States. In the same year Mr. Blackwell made his first speech for woman suffrage, at a great convention in Cleveland, O. The abolitionists claimed that slaveholders had no right to take their slaves through the free States; that, if a slave was voluntarily brought by his master upon free soil, he became free. In 1854, notice having been out to an anti-slavery convention that a family of Southerners were about to pass through Ohio, having with them a little slave-girl, a party of hot- blooded abolitionists determined to make a test case. They boarded the train at Salem and took the little girl off it by force. Mr. Blackwell happened to be the one who caught up with the child, and he was recognized by acquaintances on the train. The affair mademuch stir, and a reward of ten thousand dollars was offered for his head, at a public meeting in Memphis, Tenn. For some time after, strangers used to come into his store and look at him with close scrutiny. When asked their business, they would answer, "Ah, - you, we shall know you, if we ever catch you on the other side of the river!" Feeling ran so high for a time that if he had been found on the Kentucky side of the border he would probably have been burned alive. Mr. Blackwell was one of several young men of liberal views who were instrumental in arranging lectures as the West for Emerson and other distinguished radical. On May 1, 1855, he married Lucy Stone. He had been present in 1853 when she and Wendall Phillips and Theodore Parker spoke at a legislative hearing in Boston in support of a woman suffrage petition headed by Louisa Alcott's mother; and he had made up his mind then to marry her if he could. He confided his wishes to William Lloyd Garrison, who shook his head dubiously as to his prospects of success, but gave him a letter of introduction to Deacon Henshaw, a leading abolitionist in West Brookfield, Mass., where Lucy lived. The deacon received him hospitably, and told him that Lucy was away on a lecture trip, but was expected home that afternoon. He spent the hours of waiting in reading Emerson on the shore of the beautiful lake. Lucy could turn her hand to anything about the house; and when he called at the old farm, he found her standing on the kitchen table, white- washing the ceiling. He had a long and arduous courtship, for Lucy had made up her mind never to marry, meaning to devote herselfwholly to the work for equal rights. But he promised to devote himself to the same work, and persuaded her that together they could do more for it than she could do alone. No man ever kept a promise more loyally. On this marriage, they issued a joint protest against the inequalities of the marriage laws, which in those days gave the husband almost unlimited power over his wife and children. This protest was widely published, and helped to get the laws amended. His wife had his full support and sympathy in the unusual course that she took in continuing to be called by her own name after marriage. She regarded the loss of the wife's name as a symbol of the loss of her individuality, and could not conscientiously comply with the custom. Eminent lawyers, including Chief Justice Chase, told her, that is was only a custom and not a legal obligation. I have seldom seen my father more indignant than when his wife was debarred from voting for school committee because she would not register as Lucy Blackwell, and because a small Boston official thought he knew more about law than the Chief Justice of the United States. Mr. Blackwell proposed that he and I should go before the registrars and make oaths that we had known her for more than twenty years, and that her name was Lucy Stone. Their early married life was spent at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. They were near neighbors of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Having known Mr. Blackwell for years as a boy always full of mischief and fun, Mrs. Stowe was amazed to hear of his marriage to a serious and earnest young reformer,and exclaimed, "Is it possible that that wild boy has married Lucy Stone!" A little later they moved to New Jersey, where he engaged in the book business, in sugar-refining, and in real estate, making money in all. In 1858, while in the book business, he introduced into the school districts of Illinois nearly two thousand agricultural libraries. In 1869, he and his wife moved to Boston, where in 1870 the Woman's Journal was started, with Mrs. Livermore as its editor, and a brilliant list of editorial contributors. Mrs. Stone raised most of the money to found the paper. Mr. Blackwell contributed liberally to the new enterprise, and told his wife that he would always help the paper financially, but that there was one thing he was determined never to undertake, and that was the labor of editing it. At the end of two years, however, Mrs. Livermore, whose time was under increasing demand in the lecture field, resigned the editorship. It became necessary to find some one who would take it up, and who would preform the duties without a salary, as there was no money to pay one. Mrs. Stone and Mr. Blackwell stepped into the gap. For her sake he put on the harness into which he had declared he would never go, and he has toiled in it untiringly for more than thirty years. In 1869, with Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore, George William Curtis, Col. T.W. Higginson, William Lloyd Garrison, and others, Mr. Blackwell and Mrs. Stone took part in organizing the American Woman Suffrage Association at Cleveland, O., and for the next twenty years he labored in it indefatigably, travelling all over the country. During the first part of his life, he had been a comparatively poorman, and had had to give most of his time to business. After 1870, having acquired a competence, he was free to devote himself to reform. He was an active worker in the American, New England and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations, always ready to bear the brunt of the drudgery, and to do, gratis, any hard or disagreeable thing that nobody else cared to undertake without pay. Since he began to speak for equal suffrage, just half a century ago, his ability, vigor, and eloquence have been of incalculable service to the cause. "Now you are going to hear the best woman suffrage speech that you ever listened to in your life," the Rev. Anna Shaw said to a friend who had never heard him, when Mr. Blackwell rose to address a convention. His quickness, ingenuity and resource have always been remarkable. Once during an amendment campaign in South Dakota Mrs. Catt and he arrived in a town where there were to hold a meeting, only to find that prejudice had been so strong no hall could be obtained. Mr. Blackwell secured a wagon and stationed it just in front of the post-office, at the hour where the evening mail came in and all the people gathered to get their letters. He and Mrs. Catt placed themselves in the cart. After ringing a large bell until a crowd had assembled, Mr. Blackwell in his sonorous voice introduced Mrs. Catt, who made an excellent speech. She then introduced him, and he made his address. The people were captivated and the audience was much larger than they could have had in a hall. This is only one of the scores of occasions where his inventiveness has found means to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Once an important document waswanted without delay. It was in the printing room of the Woman's Journal, at the top of a high building which was closed and locked for the night. Mr. Blackwell went up by the fire-escape, got in through a window, and soon came nimbly down by the same airy ladder, bearing the precious paper. A few years ago the widowed mother of Mr. Blackwell's American man-of-all-work, who had come over to join her son, was stopped by the immigration officers at Ellis Island and condemned to be sent back because of some trifling trouble with her eyes, Mr. Blackwell was away at the time. His daughter and other friends exerted their best efforts to secure her admission, but in vain. Mother and son were in despair. On getting home and learning the facts, Mr. Blackwell, with his usual promptness, starting at once for Washington, went to the head Bureau of Immigration, and by vigorous representations succeeded in getting the decree reversed. He reached New York barely in time. Just as the poor woman was being led down to the waterside to be shipped back to a country where she no longer had a single living relation, Mr. Blackwell appeared on the wharf with the papers that allowed her to stay. It will be impossible to give here even a summary of his work for the equal suffrage cause. He took part in the early suffrage campaigns in Kansas, Vermont, Colorado, Michigan and Nebraska, and later in Rhode Island and South Dakota. In most of these he was accompanied by his wife. He has addressed literally hundreds of suffrage conventions and meetings, always giving his services, and generally paying his own expenses. He has done suffrage work in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado. In some of these States he spoke before the Legislature, and in others organized great conventions and series of meetings addressed by the best speakers. In many he formed suffrage societies. He is as able in expressing himself by pen as by voice, and for years he has generally been chosen chairman of the Committee on Resolutions at the annual conventions of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, in order that he may put the resolutions into the best shape. "I can forgive almost anything to a man who speaks such good English!" said of lady of fastidious tastes, who was very fond of him, but sometimes found his impetuous ways rather exasperating. In 1872 he secured the adoption of a mild woman suffrage plank by the National Republican Convention, and of a strong and unqualified one in the platform of the Massachusetts Republican Convention. For years he used regularly to go as a delegate to the National Convention of Republican Leagues, in order to secure a resolution favorable to women which he generally got. In 1889, when the Territories of North Dakota, Montana, and Washington were about to be admitted to the Union as States, Mr. Blackwell, as secretary of the American W.S.A,, visited the constitutional conventions of all three, and personally labored with the members to secure the insertion of an equal suffrage clause. He took with him letters written expressly for these conventions by Governor Warren and U.S. Delegate Carey of Wyoming, Governor Humphrey, Attorney- General Kellogg, Chief Justice Horton and all the judges of the Supreme Court of Kansas, U.S. Senator Teller of Colorado, Governor Ames and U.S. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, U.S. Senator Davis of Minnesota, William Lloyd Garrison and others, commending his mission andexpressing with hope that woman suffrage would be granted. Copies of these letters, and an appeal signed by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Mrs. Livermore, were placed in the hands of every delegate. Mr. Blackwell was given a hearing before the constitutional conventions of North Dakota and Montana and before the suffrage committee of that of Washington. In Washington, no result was obtained. The North Dakota Convention voted to grant women full suffrage, but reconsidered the vote and gave them only school suffrage. The Montana Convention voted down full suffrage, but gave tax-paying women the right to vote on all questions submitted to the tax-payers. Mr. Blackwell's speeches were praised, even by the papers opposed. As usual, he made this long trip at his own expense. He has never accepted a dollar of salary from either the Suffrage Association or the Woman's Journal, but on the contrary has always contributed largely to both. The chivalry and warmth of heart that have led him to advocate equal rights for women in public have all his life prompted him to innumerable kind deeds in private. His inexhaustible fund of jokes causes him always to be adorned by his servants and by children. He is heartily hated by the opponents of equal rights for women, and no man has been so misrepresented or maligned by them, because he is the one man of really superior abilities who has made the promotion of that cause the main object of his life. But he is as much liked by his friends as detested by his enemies; and it may truly be said of him that he is loved the most of those who know him best. When Lady Somerset and Frances Willard spoke at the opening of the Suffrage Fair in Boston, Dec. 3, 1894, Miss Willard said" "Whydo I come here to-night! Not merely for the sake of this cause, though it is very near to my heart; not merely to increase the money receipts of the Fair, though I hope it will, but because a man asked me - a man with whom. I do not agree in politics, a man whose party is not mine, but a man whom I regard as one of the noblest knights of the new chivalry. His name shall be brilliant as an electric light, when generations of the men who say "Henry B. Blackwell has wasted his life," have passed away and been forgotten. When the dear wife and mother breathed her last, and the bereaved family went down from that chamber of death this man said to his daughter, "We must try to keep Mamma's flag flying," and I am here to-night to show my loyalty and try to lift that flag just a little higher. At the celebration in Boston of Mr. Blackwell's 70th birthday, Hon. John D. Long presided, and said: "We honor Mr. Blackwell first as a citizen, a true man; second as representing that cause of enfranchisement which we all hold dear. On this his 70th birthday, we recall nearly half a century of devotion to principle of expression of high character, of the exercise of a pure, honest mind and the outbirth of a large, generous heart." Mrs. Julia Ward Howe sent her greetings to her "esteemed friend and champion of women's rights and human freedom." Rev. Chas. G. Ames characterized him as "a knight of the Golden Rule, a hero of humanity." Senator Hoar expressed high value for "his earnest, faithful and efficient labors on the side of righteousness, temperance and true Republicanism". Mrs. Livermore, in a long and appreciative address, said: "He is without exception the most self- effacing man, who takes no credit to himself, who has not one symptom of the 'big head,' who does not know how to brag." Prof. Ellen Hayesof Wellesley said: "He seems to me, more perhaps than almost any man I know, to represent in his character and life the elements of the ideal man whom we women love and reverence and admire." There were affectionate tributes also from Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney, A.R. Spofford, Rev. Samuel May, and other friends too numerous to mention. It as characteristic of Mr. Blackwell that in his response he said so much of his wife and so little of himself. Referring to the fact that in his boyhood his mother and sisters managed to send him to college in St. Louis for a year, he said: "If you wonder that I am an advocate of woman suffrage, let me tell you that all I am in the world that is worthy of esteem is due to my mother, my sisters, and my wife." He spoke of the promise he gave to Lucy Stone to devote himself to the cause of equal rights, and his assurance to her that the two together could do more for it than she alone, and added: "If she had not believed that it might be so, she never would have married. Therefore, am I not under an honorable obligation to devote every energy of mind and body to make that promise good - knowing as I do that all I can do in a life-time will not be as much as she did in the first three years after I knew her?" The attendance at this birthday dinner was a remarkable gathering of what was best in New England - best intellectually and morally, and along reform lines. William Lloyd Garrison read an original poem. He seemed to voice the general feeling of the assembly when he said: Not Bayard chivalrous and void of fear Nor Sydney knight of noble blood and bearing were more devoted to a duty clear, Or more unselfish in their love and daring. A.S.B.[*HB B*] ABOUT MISS BLACKWELL'S FATHER When Mrs. Page had the idea that Miss Alice Stone Blackwell wasn't a good chairman for the Board of Directors, she went o Miss Blackwell and told her that I would make a better chairman of the Board than she. Miss Blackwell said, "Perhaps you are right. I will do all I can to help you." When I came to preside over the Board - (I had taken lessons in parliamentary procedure) - Mr. Blackwell was on the Board and had a way of speaking whenever he felt like it. Three or four times I called him to order and all the old ladies were perfectly horrified. I could say - (I told him he would have to wait to be recognized) - all the things you don't say to an older person unless you are a cocky young person as I was. Miss Blackwell took me aside the next time I came into the office and said "I want to say something to you. I am devoted to my father. He is all I have left in the world. I love him very deeply. I realize he is troublesome at meetings and that he troubles you. I willdo everything I can, but I think for your own sake you must never speak to him at a meeting as you did, because it stirs up so much resentment among the people who have been in the Association for so many years. It will stir up trouble for you." It was an instance of her complete magnanimity. Maud Wood Park, January 1943insert in P. 66 Henry B. Blackwell said: We are all creatures of habit. Men have not been in the habit of seeing women vote and so it seems contrary to nature. Voting is itself a comparatively modern thing and general suffrage as now exercised was unknown a hundred years ago. xx The principle of a government based on the consent of the governed is only half applied, and we are still only half a republic. In equal suffrage lies our only hope of a representative government. Women are one half of our citizens with rights to protect and wrongs to remedy. They are a distinct class in society, differing from men in character, position, and interest. Every class that votes makes itself felt in the government. Women will change the [character] quality of government when they vote. They are more peaceable, temperate, chaste, economical, and law abiding than men; less controlled by physical appetite and passion; more influenced by humane and religious considerations. They will [superadd?] to the more harsh and aggressive masculine qualities, those feminine qualities in which they are superior to men. And these qualities are precisely what our government lacks. Women will always be the wives and mothers of men. They will represent the home as men represent the business interests. Both are needed. This is a reform higher, broader, deeper than any and all others. Let good men and women of all sects, parties, and opinions unite in establishing a government of and by and for the people - - men and women.Henry B. Blackwell, 80 Years Old Today, Will Receive Multitude of Greetings CHEERY SONNET PENNED BY W.L. GARRISON IS ONE Veteran Reformer and Publicist, Unfaltering Champion of Woman Suffrage, Can Recall Many Such Joyous Occasions. The many friends of Mr Henry B. Blackwell, the veteran reformer and publicist, are today congratulating him, both orally and by letter, on the 80th return of his birthday. Born on May 4, 1825, at Bristol, Eng., he came to this country with parents in 1832 and soon developed those traits of character which have crowded his life with philanthropic effort and humanitarian achievement. In 1853 he took an active part in the Free Soil Movement and made his first speech for woman suffrage at a great convention in Cleveland, O. On May 1, 1835, he married Lucy Stone, an event which led to his undertaking the editorship of the Woman's Journal, for the founding of which Mrs. Stone had raised most of the money. In 1869 Mr. Blackwell and his wife took part in organizing the American Suffrage Association at Cleveland, O., and for many years thereafter Mr. Blackwell was an active worker in the American, New England and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage associations. He has made hundreds of speeches all over the country in behalf of woman's suffrage, besides doing yeoman service for other reforms in which he is interested. In 1872 he secured the adoption of a mild woman suffrage plank by the national Republican convention, and of a strong and unqualified one in the platform of the Massachusetts Republican convention. For years he used regularly to go as a delegate to the national convention of Republican Leagues in order to secure a resolution favorable to women, which he generally got. When Lady Henry Somerset and Frances Willard spoke at the opening of the suffrage fair in Boston on Dec. 3, 1894, Miss Willard said: Miss Williard's Tribute to Mr. Blackwell in 1894. "Why have I come here tonight? Not merely for the sake of this cause, though it is very near to my heart; not merely to increase the money receipts of the fair, though I hope it will; but because a man asked me - a man with whom I do not agree in politics, a man whose party is not mine, but a man whom I regard as one of the noblest knights of the new chivalry. His name shall be brilliant as an electric light when generations of the men who say 'Henry B. Blackwell has wasted his life' has passed away and been forgotten. When the dear wife and mother had breathed her last, and the bereaved family went down from that chamber of death, this man said to his daughter: 'We must try to keep mamma's flag flying,' and I am here tonight to show my loyalty and try to lift that flag a little higher." At the celebration in Boston of Mr. Blackwell's 70th birthday, the Hon. John D. Long presided, and said: "We honor Mr. Blackwell first as a citizen, a true man; second as representing that cause of enfranchisement which we all hold dear. On his 70th birthday we recall nearly half a century of devotion to principle, of expression of high character, of the exercise of a pure, honest mind, and the outbirth of a large, generous heart." HENRY B. BLACKWELL Upon Mr. Blackwell's breakfast table this morning, along with many other tributes, will be placed the following sonnet: TO HENRY B. BLACKWELL, On His 80th Birthday, By WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON May, month of sunshine and of opening spring, Hope's harbinger, with cheery lengthening days, Thou wert fit birth-time for the friend we praise In verse that creeps for lack of soaring wing, Summer, nor autumn, nor the winter's rime That but adorns his venerable crown Can hold his youthful, springlike spirit down Or overawe us by the count of time, Active and agile-minded, every phase Of human welfare interests and charms; He asks not strength, but that the sunset rays Prolong their light for further feats of arms. Like May's arbutus, fragrant and divine, Through time's dried leaves his rosy colors shine. May 5, 1905 80TH BIRTHDAY OF BLACKWELL GREETED The Octogenarian Took a Bicycle Ride for a Birthday Jaunt May, month of sunshine and of opening spring, Hope's harbinger, with cheery lengthening days, Thou wert fit birthtime for the friend we praise In verse that creeps for lack of soaring wing, Summer, nor autumn, nor the winter's rime That but adorns his venerable crown Can hold his youthful, springlike spirit down Or overawe us by the count of time, Active and agile-minded, every phase Of human welfare interests and charms; He asks not strength, but that the sunset rays Prolong their light for further feats of arms. Like May's arbutus, fragrant and divine, Through time's dried leaves his rosy colors shine. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Lexington, May 4, 1905. --- This was one of many poems received by Henry B. Blackwell, writer, lecturer, equal suffragist and editor, yesterday, on the occasion of this 80th birthday. "I have always said that on my 80th birthday I should learn to ride a bicycle," said Mr. Blackwell, in his hearty way. His cheeks were ruddy and his eyes bright. "I said that then I would take a day off and learn. I've always wanted to." Then he laughed a merry, jovial laugh. "Do you believe that when a man gets to be 60 he should be chloroformed, as Dr. Osler says?" No Believer in Osler "Do I believe that a man should die when he gets to be 60? Well, I should say not. Last summer I walked 15 miles, and then stood four hours by the side of a river fishing. I brought home a good basket of fish, too. "They say a man is as old as he feels. It's true. As long as the heart is young and you have your faculties, you are young. "As a man grows older he has more interests and almost invariably he is happier. "Now I have something to say to you. It is the conclusion derived from years of experience. "If we ever have a good government or a true democracy, it will be when the women, by their votes, help to make it so. "The time will come when this fact will be realized, appreciated and acted upon." And Mr. Blackwell nodded his head triumphantly. Mr. Blackwell is one of the best-known men in Boston. He was born in Bristol, Eng., in 1825, and in 1832 came to America. Some "First" Women Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, his sister, was the first woman ever to take a doctor's degree, though she had to go to Oberlin to do it. His brother married the Rev. Antoinette Brown, the first woman ever to be ordained as a minister. Mr. Blackwell himself married Lucy Stone, one of the first women ever to take a college degree. During the Civil war a meeting was held in Memphis, Tenn., at the price of $10,000 was offered for Mr. Blackwell's head, because he had aided a fugitive slave. One of the slaves whom he aided was Abbie Kelley Salemn, whose descendants are still living in and about Boston. His diversity of interests is somewhat shown in the greetings which he yesterday received. Flooded With Congratulations There were over 40 letters, two or three poems and a profusion of flowers that filled his editorial office and also his home. Among the letters were one from Mrs. Josephine St. P. Ruffin, giving the good will of the colored people; M.H. Gulesian, an Armenian business man, sent the greetings of his people; Myer Bloomfield of the civic service, sent greetings from the Hebrews; ex-Governor Long, the Hon. William Dudley Foulke, the Hon. George A. Ernst, the Hon. Eugene N. Foss, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Mary Schlesinger, Colonel Higginson, flowers from Plymouth from the daughters of an anti-slavery friend, Frank Garrison, the Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer, A.R. Spofford, assistant librarian of Congress; the Rev. and Mrs. Charles G. Ames, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Mead, and many others, many of whom are old anti-suffrage and anti-slavery friends. The Massachusetts Suffrage Association sent a handsome potted plant. Mr. Blackwell made no special observance of the day. He came down to his office as usual and made no change in his routine. Henry B. BLACKWELL Mrs. Julia Ward Howe sent her greetings to her "esteemed friend and champion of woman's rights and human freedom." The Rev. Charles G. Ames characterized him ad "a knight of the Golden Rule, a hero of humanity." Senator Hoar expressed high value for "his earnest, faithful and efficient labors on the side of righteousness, temperance and true republicanism." Mrs. Livermore, in a long and appreciative address, said: "He is without exception the most self-effacing man who takes no credit to himself, who has not one symptom of the 'big head, ' who does not know to brag." Most Represents Elements of Ideal Man for Woman. Prof. Ellen Hayes of Wellesley said: "He seems to me, more perhaps than almost any man I know, to represent in his character and life the elements of that ideal man whom we woman love reverence and admire." There were affectionate tributes also, from Mrs. Ednah D Cheyney, A. R. Spofford, the Rev. Samuel May and other friends too numerous to mention. THE BOSTON TRAVELER, THURSDA HENRY B. BLACKWELL IS FOUR SCORE YEARS (Photo by Chickering) HENRY B. BLACKWELL Blackwell, editor of the [?]Journal, is receiving congrat- [?]oday on his 80th anniversary. [?]an of intellectual culture, keen [?] and forceful utterance. In [?]th an opponent, especially in [?] universal suffrage, he turns [?]rchlight and seldom, if ever, [?]guish an antagonist. [?]kwell is possessed of kindly [?]nd warmheartedness, and is a loyal citizen. Although a little stooped in form, he can speed over the streets with the swiftness of a schoolboy. Since the death of his wife, Lucy Stone, Mr. Blackwell has devoted his life to the cause of woman suffrage, of which she was an able advocate. Among the younger women of Boston his daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, has no peer. She is convincing in argument, quick to repartee and a poet of no mean order.Henry Brown Blackwell 1 Mother - Hannah Lane Born Bristol Eng Dec 22 1792 Died Rochanay, LI - Aug 22, 1870 Father - Samuel Blackwell Born Worcester Eng. Feb 6 1790 Died Cincinnati Ohio, Aug 7 1838 Married St James Church Bristol Eng Sept 27 1815 Anna - b. June 21, 1816 Marianne - b. July 7, 1818 Saml Chas. July 31, 1819 - d. Mar 28 1820 Eliz - Feb 3 - 1821 Saml Chas 2 - Nov 3, 1823 Henry Browne - May 4 1825 Emily - Oct 3 1826 Ellen - Jan 26, 1828 Caroline - Apr 20, 1829 - d Mar 1830 John Howard - June 20, 1830 - d Dec 20, 1830 " " 2nd, Sept 15, 1831 d. Feb 12 1866 All born in Bristol Eng. Geo Washington b Nov 8, 1832 #93 Thompson St NY Henry Blackwell 2 Hannah & Samuel Family cont. Samuel Blackwell, b. Apr. 14, 1838 Jersey City, N.J. All the above information was recorded in the Bible of Henry's Aunt Barbara Blackwell Hastings Eng. ,July 5, 1896 Sisters of Samuel B. father of Henry 1a Barbara Blackwell B. Worcester Eng. May 1789 D. NY Oct 19, 1838 Mary Blackwell B Worcester Eng. Jan 12, 1792 D. Cincinnati Sept 7, 1838 John Blackwell Son of Saml. issue John Kenyon Blackwell Saml Holden " Anna Maria B -- married Ebenezer Rogers (dead) d. Wm. Rogers (died in Australia) d. Frances Rogers (Fanny) married John Ward left son Harold Rogers Ward (New College, Oxford (Father lives at [Seinsbury?] & is going to study law) d. John Kenyon Rogers, married Georgie Holden - 6 children l. Maria - married to Mr. Morton - lives at Hampsted London - no children l. Gwenllian Rogers - (not married) lives in W. Kirby, Cheshire, near her mother d. Arthur (died when quite a baby) l. Rachel 1st marriage Arthur Atchison [2 William Walls] son - George Tunoure Atchison cont.Blackwell family 3 Henry Browne married Lucy Stone 1854? daughter Alice Stone Blackwell B. E Orange N.J. Sept 17. 1857 d Cambridge Mass Mar. 15. 1950 Lucy stone died - Oct 1893 Dor Marr HBB died [*190*] Samuel C. Blackwell married Antoinette Brown Daughters Agnes m. Samuel Thomas Jones. Grace- Edith (Edie) Ethel married Alfred Robinson Florence - married Elliott Mayhew 4 George Blackwell , married Ellen? Son Howard lane married Helen Thomas George - Lane Howard - John T daug Anna m. Chas F D Belden {Elizabeth {Alison son Laurie {Lawrence died (1b) Rachel (Atchison) ( daughter of John Kenyon Rogers etc) cont. 2nd son - Francis Arthur A - (at school in Glen Almond, Scotland.) 2nd marriage - Wm. Watts Marjorie Lilian Atchison Watts l Margaret Rogers (daughter of John Kenyon R) lives near Guilford, Surry l Reynold, marries Miss Morris, lives in Birmingham he has one son Reynold Merrick Rogers * l Elizabeth Rogers (Lily) (residence undecided) 1951 Edw adds - * Meyric Reynold Rogers [da] 1st marriage Anne Kirk Baltimore Md 2nd - Helen - 1st marriage Edith Elizabeth Rogers Meyric Kirk RogersBlackwell Herny B died Sept 7 1909 Blackwell Saml C George Washington Henry Browne Anna Sarah Ellen Edith Grace [Florence] Emily Elizabeth Blackwell HBB's family "family of 13 - 9 grew to [malernuty?] - 5 remain. 2 sister 3 bro Sam Geo HBB Howard ( S. Ellen Anna Sam [Edith] Marion Geo Emily Grace (9) Henry Elizabeth) [Keit??] genealogy Katharine Barry Blackwell adopted daughter of Dr Eliz Aug 1899? Blackwell genealogy Anna Blackwell sister of Henry B B- died at Hastings England Westchester Gazette [Aug 1899?] Blackwell genealogy Dr Antoinette Brown Blackwell me Saml C death of daughter Edith Dr. Oct 1906 (10?) Blackwell Dr Elizabeth Adopted daughter Katharine Barry Cornelia second foster daughter of Dr Emily married Howard [Whay?] son Paul Blackwell Henry B married Lucy Stone daugh - Alice Stone B 1857 Blackwell Geo Washington (married Emma) Anna (Belden) (Charley J D Belden Howard Lane (Helen Thomas) genealogy Dr Sarah Ellen Bl- died Jan 1901 after the 11th Huntington Anna Blackwell Called Nan & Nannie in family letters adopted d. of Dr Emily Saml C Blackwell (Ethel (Robinson) Agnes (Jones) Florence (Mayhew) Edith Grace Blackwell Dr Emily adopted daughter Anna Huntington Ted K Wilfred Albert Gale Ethel Blackwell Robinson Ethel's "little baby Samuel's ashes are buried near her" (Dr Edith - Chelwath Cemetery) M V MassOfficers and Board of Directors, page 2. Miss Barbara Horton, 1030 Beacon Street, Brookline Rev. Charles C. Keith, 58 Kenneth St., Roslindale Miss Florence Kimball, 65 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge Miss Marie D. MacIntyre, 53 Laurel St., Somerville Mrs. Stanley McCormick, 393 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Judge Frankland W. L. Miles, 10 State St., Boston Mrs. Charles H. Myers, 33 Windsor Rd., Wellesley Dr. Sallie H. Saunders, 32 Woodside Park, [Winth-?] Mrs. Phillip H. Sherwood, 404 Grove St., Westwood Mrs. Lawrence M. [Sibley], 50 Puritan Road, Newton [?] Gardner Rd, Brookline [?] 89 Pinckney St., Boston [?] [Spencer], 38 Devon Rd., Newton [?] 330 Charles River Road, [W?] Honorary Directors [?t] Bernard Mrs. J. Sumner [?ings] Mrs. Augustus [?] Committee Pianos Cressey & Allen Phone Forest 4530 Victrolas "Maine's Oldest Piano House" Radios 534 Congress Street Musical Merchandise Portland, Maine December 8 1927Blackwell - Lucy Stone Bro Frank - died Feb West Brookfield (93 yrs) sister Sarah - April [18] 1900? HBB's [litle?] died Gardner - ag 79 out family of 9 - 7 grew to maturityAMERICAN CYANAMID COMP, O ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK 20. NEW YORK YOUR INVOICE OUR VOUCHER NO. CODE GROSS AMOUNT ATE NUMBER 527 ** 12602 56 56 TMU THE CHECK IS IN THE PAYMENT OF ITEMS LISTED ABOVEAggregate Ages of Blackwells 1896 Anna 80 years Marian 78 " Elizabeth 75 " 5 mos Sam 72 " 9 " Hy 71 years 2 months Emily 69 " 9 " Ellen 68 " 6 " George 64 " Total years 580 years Howard when he died in 1866 36 " 616 yearsHenry B. Blackwell - Record Ida P. Boyer's memo for Alice S. Blackwell (for biography of L. Stone 1825-1832 English recollections 1832-1834 Thompson Street 1834-1836 Long Island 1836-1838 Jersey city (going to school) 1838-1840 Cincinnati, Ohio, clerking at $2.00 per week 1840-1841 Kemper College, St. Louis 1841-1845 Cincinnati, Ohio, with Mr. Ellis, clerk in bank 1845 " Milling business 1846 Sugar refining 1847 Unsuccessful establishment of sugar refinery in Cinnati, 1848 Again in New York with Mr. Harris (which burned) 1848-1855 Cincinnati, Ohio - hardware firm of Coombs, Hyland and Blackwell 1855 May 1, married Lucy Stone 1856 Summer in Bad Axe County, Wisconsin - (Viroqua) and removal to New York 1857 Purchased house on Hurburt St. Orange, N.J. and engaged in agricultural book frm of C.M. Saxton & Co. 1858 Withdrew from C.M. Saxton and Co. and kept books of Vanderbilt Steamers for Joseph Torrance, Vanderbilt's son-in-law 1859 Engagement with Agustus C. Moore, Agricultural Book publishers, in introduction of school libraries in Illinois 1860 Residence in Evanston, Ill. 1861 Real estate business in Orange, N.J. and removal to Montclair to Sidney Day house, then to hillside. 1863 -----Engaged by Cornelius Bramhall, manufacturer of kitchen ranges 1864-1865 Removal to Roseville and return to sugar refining with Dennis Harris 1868 Removal to Boston, Massachusetts 1870 Residence in Dorchester - 45 Boutwell St. designated in letters as Harrison Square District of Boston. Also called Pope's Hill 1893 Lucy Stone, his wife, died in Dorchester home 1893-1909 Lived at Dorchester house with his daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell 1905 80th birthday celebration - presentation of silver pitcher at Faneuil Hall testimonial meeting 1909 Died September 7, 1909 ------ * 1872 Spent two months in Santo Domingo