Blake, William Kennedy, 1824-1897.
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Blake, William Kennedy, 1824-1897.
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Blake, William Kennedy, 1824-1897.
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Teacher in Texas, 1848-1850, and in North Carolina, 1850-1859. President of a Methodist women's college in Spartanburg, S.C., from 1859 until shortly after the Civil War. Merchant in Spartanburg, S.C., after the Civil War.
William Kennedy Blake (1824-1897) was born in Fayetteville, N.C., where he spent most of his childhood. He attended Randolph Macon College in Boydton, Va., 1843, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1846. In October 1848 Blake married Ella Lavainia Hawley and moved to Leon County, Tex., where he worked as a teacher and lawyer until 1850. In 1850, he returned to North Carolina and continued to work as a teacher until 1859. He became president of a Methodist women's college in Spartanburg, S.C., in 1859 where he remained until shortly after the Civil War, at which point he began a mercantile business.
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Fayetteville (N.C.)
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Texas--Leon County
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Ansonville (N.C.)
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South Carolina
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Leon County (Tex.)
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North Carolina
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Greensboro (N.C.)
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Spartanburg (S.C.)
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