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Biographical NoteWilliam Edgar Blake was born in Morning Sun, Ohio on June 27, 1844. Blake and his family moved to Iowa in 1845. He attended Monmouth College in Illinois, and went on to study law at Iowa State University earning his law degree in 1869. Blake was also a Civil War vetran serving with the Company C, First Iowa calvary. In 1869 Blake and his wife Sarah Lucretia Hurd, moved to Burlington, Iowa where he practiced law until his death in 1915. Scope and Content NoteHolograph manuscript consists of a journal of a railway trip through New Mexico, Arizona, and, chiefly, northern Mexico in 1883. ArrangementThis collection is organized ChronologicallyRestrictionsRestrictionsRestricted; patron must use microfilm, no. 573, due to fragile condition of originals. CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Access TermsGeographic Name(s) Arizona--Description and travel. Mexico--Description and travel. New Mexico--Description and travel. Administrative InformationCredit LineThe Land of Mañana (AZ 029). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries. |