Approved Pension File for Appoline A. Blair, Widow of Major General Francis P. Blair, Jr., U.S. Army Volunteers (WC-177303)

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Approved Pension File for Appoline A. Blair, Widow of Major General Francis P. Blair, Jr., U.S. Army Volunteers (WC-177303)

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Blair Jr., Francis Preston, 1821-1875

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Blair was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third and youngest son of newspaper editor and politician Francis Preston Blair, and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair, a Mayor of St. Louis and Postmaster General under Lincoln, and the cousin of B. Gratz Brown, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri. Blair attended schools in Washington, D.C., was matriculated in Yale and the University of North Carolina, but graduated from Princeton University in 1841, and then...