BIOGRAPHY: Celestine J. BLAIR, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 452
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Celestine J. BLAIR

CELESTINE J. BLAIR, ex-register and recorder of Cambria county, is a son of John 
and Mary Ann (Evans) Blair, and was born August 11, 1857, in Ebensburg, this 
county. 
     He was educated in the public schools and Mount Gallitzin seminary, of 
Ebensburg. In those days his father was a very active and prominent politician 
of the county, and young Celestine was soon inducted into public life. In 1879 
he entered the office of the county treasurer as deputy, where he remained nine 
months, and shortly afterwards entered the office of register and recorder. His 
father having been elected sheriff of the county, he became his father's deputy, 
and continued in that relation the full term of three years. His father was 
followed in that office by Joseph A. Gray, and Mr. Blair was made his deputy, 
serving in that capacity until he was elected to the office of register and 
recorder, in the autumn of 1886. He served in that office one term, and that his 
administration of its affairs was satisfactory to the public, is evidenced by 
the fact that he was re-elected.
    September 10, 1880, Mr. Blair married Kate M. Fenlon, a daughter of John 
Fenlon (whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume), and their marriage has 
been blessed in the birth of twelve children: Frank J., Mary Grace, Maria 
Marmaleta, deceased; Ellen M., deceased; C. Louisa, Pauline, Jessie M., 
Katherine, Jeanette, deceased; Celestine J., Fenlon L., Marian, Basil, deceased, 
and four died young.