Dr. James H Blake
Houston, Texas, Dec. 16. aged 61 years, one of the oldest practicing physicians in Houston, died at his home, 2817 Main Street, at 10:20 o'clock this morning from a stroke of apoplexy. Besides the widow, two children survive. Arrangements of the funeral have not been announced. Dallas Morning News. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1907, Dallas, Texas, Page 12
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James H. of Houston, is the son of Edmund H. Blake and Martha M., nee Harris; and Edmund H. was the son of William Blake and Anges, nee O'Neal. William Blake was a native of England, of unmixed English blood, while his wife was certainly of Irish ancestry, and probably was a native of Erin's green isle. They always lived upon a farm, for some years in Virginia and later in Alabama, being early settlers in the vicinity of Athens, where they died. They were plain and unassuming in manner and disposition, and reasonably prosperous in their calling. They had four daughters and two sons.
James H. Blake was born in Brenham, Washington county, Texas, October 28, 1846, and reared in that city until ten years of age, when his parents moved to Houston, where he was mainly educated. In 1863, when he was but seventeen years old, he entered the Confederate army, enlisting in Company E, Terry's Cavalry, and served during the remainder of the war entirely in Texas, along the gulf coast and in Arkansas, in defense of the northern border of the State of Texas. After the war he spent some years in his father's drug store, in Houston, and, through the training thus received and an inherited taste for the study of physiology and pharmacy, and withal an admiration for the medical profession generally, he decided to become a physician. His first systematic study of medicine was pursued under the direction of his father, and he finally graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1870, and also in 1873, at the University of Maryland, at Baltimore. He began the practice of his profession in Houston in 1870, and has followed it here earnestly and successfully since. Dr. Blake is recognized as standing at the head of his school in this city. He is a member of the Homeopathic State Medical Society of Texas, and is a polished, cultured gentleman. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. March 13, 1873, in Baltimore, Maryland, the Doctor married Miss Jennie L. Harris, daughter of William H. Harris, who was for many years a prominent politician of that city. Mrs. Blake was born in Baltimore and died in Houston, March 12, 1892, leaving one son, Allen B. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Houston, Texas, Dec. 16. aged 61 years, one of the oldest practicing physicians in Houston, died at his home, 2817 Main Street, at 10:20 o'clock this morning from a stroke of apoplexy. Besides the widow, two children survive. Arrangements of the funeral have not been announced. Dallas Morning News. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1907, Dallas, Texas, Page 12
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James H. of Houston, is the son of Edmund H. Blake and Martha M., nee Harris; and Edmund H. was the son of William Blake and Anges, nee O'Neal. William Blake was a native of England, of unmixed English blood, while his wife was certainly of Irish ancestry, and probably was a native of Erin's green isle. They always lived upon a farm, for some years in Virginia and later in Alabama, being early settlers in the vicinity of Athens, where they died. They were plain and unassuming in manner and disposition, and reasonably prosperous in their calling. They had four daughters and two sons.
James H. Blake was born in Brenham, Washington county, Texas, October 28, 1846, and reared in that city until ten years of age, when his parents moved to Houston, where he was mainly educated. In 1863, when he was but seventeen years old, he entered the Confederate army, enlisting in Company E, Terry's Cavalry, and served during the remainder of the war entirely in Texas, along the gulf coast and in Arkansas, in defense of the northern border of the State of Texas. After the war he spent some years in his father's drug store, in Houston, and, through the training thus received and an inherited taste for the study of physiology and pharmacy, and withal an admiration for the medical profession generally, he decided to become a physician. His first systematic study of medicine was pursued under the direction of his father, and he finally graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1870, and also in 1873, at the University of Maryland, at Baltimore. He began the practice of his profession in Houston in 1870, and has followed it here earnestly and successfully since. Dr. Blake is recognized as standing at the head of his school in this city. He is a member of the Homeopathic State Medical Society of Texas, and is a polished, cultured gentleman. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. March 13, 1873, in Baltimore, Maryland, the Doctor married Miss Jennie L. Harris, daughter of William H. Harris, who was for many years a prominent politician of that city. Mrs. Blake was born in Baltimore and died in Houston, March 12, 1892, leaving one son, Allen B. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Dr. James H Blake
Houston, Texas, Dec. 16. aged 61 years, one of the oldest practicing physicians in Houston, died at his home, 2817 Main Street, at 10:20 o'clock this morning from a stroke of apoplexy. Besides the widow, two children survive. Arrangements of the funeral have not been announced. Dallas Morning News. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1907, Dallas, Texas, Page 12
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James H. of Houston, is the son of Edmund H. Blake and Martha M., nee Harris; and Edmund H. was the son of William Blake and Anges, nee O'Neal. William Blake was a native of England, of unmixed English blood, while his wife was certainly of Irish ancestry, and probably was a native of Erin's green isle. They always lived upon a farm, for some years in Virginia and later in Alabama, being early settlers in the vicinity of Athens, where they died. They were plain and unassuming in manner and disposition, and reasonably prosperous in their calling. They had four daughters and two sons.
James H. Blake was born in Brenham, Washington county, Texas, October 28, 1846, and reared in that city until ten years of age, when his parents moved to Houston, where he was mainly educated. In 1863, when he was but seventeen years old, he entered the Confederate army, enlisting in Company E, Terry's Cavalry, and served during the remainder of the war entirely in Texas, along the gulf coast and in Arkansas, in defense of the northern border of the State of Texas. After the war he spent some years in his father's drug store, in Houston, and, through the training thus received and an inherited taste for the study of physiology and pharmacy, and withal an admiration for the medical profession generally, he decided to become a physician. His first systematic study of medicine was pursued under the direction of his father, and he finally graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1870, and also in 1873, at the University of Maryland, at Baltimore. He began the practice of his profession in Houston in 1870, and has followed it here earnestly and successfully since. Dr. Blake is recognized as standing at the head of his school in this city. He is a member of the Homeopathic State Medical Society of Texas, and is a polished, cultured gentleman. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. March 13, 1873, in Baltimore, Maryland, the Doctor married Miss Jennie L. Harris, daughter of William H. Harris, who was for many years a prominent politician of that city. Mrs. Blake was born in Baltimore and died in Houston, March 12, 1892, leaving one son, Allen B. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Houston, Texas, Dec. 16. aged 61 years, one of the oldest practicing physicians in Houston, died at his home, 2817 Main Street, at 10:20 o'clock this morning from a stroke of apoplexy. Besides the widow, two children survive. Arrangements of the funeral have not been announced. Dallas Morning News. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1907, Dallas, Texas, Page 12
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James H. of Houston, is the son of Edmund H. Blake and Martha M., nee Harris; and Edmund H. was the son of William Blake and Anges, nee O'Neal. William Blake was a native of England, of unmixed English blood, while his wife was certainly of Irish ancestry, and probably was a native of Erin's green isle. They always lived upon a farm, for some years in Virginia and later in Alabama, being early settlers in the vicinity of Athens, where they died. They were plain and unassuming in manner and disposition, and reasonably prosperous in their calling. They had four daughters and two sons.
James H. Blake was born in Brenham, Washington county, Texas, October 28, 1846, and reared in that city until ten years of age, when his parents moved to Houston, where he was mainly educated. In 1863, when he was but seventeen years old, he entered the Confederate army, enlisting in Company E, Terry's Cavalry, and served during the remainder of the war entirely in Texas, along the gulf coast and in Arkansas, in defense of the northern border of the State of Texas. After the war he spent some years in his father's drug store, in Houston, and, through the training thus received and an inherited taste for the study of physiology and pharmacy, and withal an admiration for the medical profession generally, he decided to become a physician. His first systematic study of medicine was pursued under the direction of his father, and he finally graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1870, and also in 1873, at the University of Maryland, at Baltimore. He began the practice of his profession in Houston in 1870, and has followed it here earnestly and successfully since. Dr. Blake is recognized as standing at the head of his school in this city. He is a member of the Homeopathic State Medical Society of Texas, and is a polished, cultured gentleman. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. March 13, 1873, in Baltimore, Maryland, the Doctor married Miss Jennie L. Harris, daughter of William H. Harris, who was for many years a prominent politician of that city. Mrs. Blake was born in Baltimore and died in Houston, March 12, 1892, leaving one son, Allen B. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
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