BIO: Frank A. BLAIR, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 25.
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F. A. BLAIR
Blair's Mills, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

Merchant:  A. C. Blair, the grandfather of F. A. Blair, was the founder of 
Blair's Mills.  John H. was a brother of A. C. Blair.  He was born near Shade 
Gap, Feb. 2, 1818; they were merchants.  F. A. Blair is a son  of J. A. 
Blair, of Blairs' Mills, now living a retired life.  He owns a farm of 90 
acres, and had owned a grist mill.  He was born Aug. 6, 1848, in a house 
built in 1844, and still is in excellent state of preservation.  He is an 
elder in the Presbyterian Church.  His wife was Sarah (Skinner) Bair, of Dry 
Run.  The Skinners are also pioneers of Franklin County.  She died in 1927.  
Other Blairs of prominence who have been prominent in this section are J. M. 
Blair, merchant; David Blair, John H. Blair and Brice X. Blair, a Civil War 
veteran.  The subject of this sketch, F. A. Blair, was born at Blair's Mills, 
July 26, 1881, and began his schooling at Blair's Mills, later attending Dry 
Run Academy.  Has been engaged in the mercantile business practically all his 
life.  The business was formerly conducted by J. M. Blair, his cousin.  A 
general merchandising business is conducted, carrying in stock a full and 
complete line of groceries, drugs, dry goods, hardware, shoes, builders' 
supplies, etc.; also a service station, with four gasoline pumps.  He has two 
sisters: Bertha M. Blair is a graduate of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.; 
Annie, married to Roy Kegerreis, who died in 1920 at the age of thirty-five 
years.  He was a funeral director, a gradute [sic] of Prof. Eckles' Embalming 
School, Philadelphia, Pa.; he also was a hardware dealer at Fannettsburg, Pa. 
for eight years.  They have one son, John Blair K., fifteen years of age, 
attending Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa.  Mrs. Kegerreis attended the 
Academy at Dry Run, Franklin Co, Pa.  F. A. Blair married Evelyn Diener, a 
daughter of Rev. John F. Diener, a Presbyterian minister at Blair's Mills for 
twenty-five years.  Mr. and Mrs. Blair have one daughter, Helen at home.  She 
is a graduate of Penn Hall, Chambersburg, Pa., and fitted for secretarial 
work.  Three sons, John C., named after the late J. C. Blair, founder of the 
J. C. Blair Manufacturing Stationery Co., Blair Playground, Blair Park, 
Huntingdon, Pa.; Glenn D. Alexander Blair, attending high school at Dry Run, 
Pa.; Max Sylvanus, high school, Dry Run, Pa.  F. A. Blair comes of an 
illustrious ancestry.  They founded and built, and will go on with their kin, 
so that they may hand down to posterity the work of their hands.

Note: Frank A. Blair, according to the 1930 Huntingdon county census.