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Francis Preston Blair Family Tree

Several generations of the Francis Preston Blair family are represented in the Blair Family Papers. This family tree may assist researchers in understanding the relationships between Blair family members.

Francis Preston Blair (Apr. 12, 1791- Oct. 18, 1876) and Eliza Violet Gist Blair (Nov. 10, 1794-July 5, 1877), married July 21, 1812
Children:

Montgomery Blair (May 10, 1813-July 27, 1883)

Married Caroline Buckner (died Jan. 11, 1844) in 1836
- Children: Elizabeth “Betty” Blair Comstock (Apr. 25, 1841-Aug. 6, 1872)

Married Cyrus B. Comstock in 1869
No children

Married Mary Elizabeth “Minna” Woodbury (Aug. 22, 1821-Jan. 27, 1887) in 1846. She was the daughter of former Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury (1789-1851) and Elizabeth Williams Clapp Woodbury (1796-1873). Her siblings included Charles Levi Woodbury (1820-1898), Frances Anstris Woodbury Lowery (1823-1895), Virginia Lafayette Woodbury Fox (1824-1908), and Ellen Carolina Woodbury (1828-1909).
Children:
- Minna Blair Richey (May 28, 1850-Sept. 12, 1919)

Married Stephen O. Richey in 1884
No children

Maria G. Blair (Jan. 12-1854-Sept. 4, 1862)
Woodbury Blair (Sept. 1, 1852-Oct. 14, 1933)

Married Emily Wallach in 1907

Gist Blair (Sept. 10, 1860-Dec. 16, 1940)

Married Laura Lawson (Sept. 10, 1859-Oct. 8, 1942) on Mar. 3, 1913. She was the daughter of Franklin Hey Lawson (1834-1910) and Annie Ryland McDougal Lawson (1837-1917). She had been married previously to Frank Ellis (1856-1917), with whom she had a son, Franklin Henry Ellis (1884-1960).
No children

Montgomery Blair, Jr. (Mar. 17, 1865-Apr. 28, 1944)

Married Edith Draper (Feb. 18, 1874-Nov. 7, 1939) in 1895
Children:
- Edith Blair Staton (Sept. 6, 1896-June 30, 2001)
  - Married Adolphus Staton (1879-1964) in 1917
  - Children: Lucy Staton McCabe (died 1973)
- Minna Elizabeth Woodbury Blair Hollyday (Nov. 23, 1898-Apr. 30, 1976)
  - Married Richard Hollyday (1895-1986) in 1920
  - Children: Richard Carmichael Hollyday IV (Apr. 14, 1927-Nov. 5, 2003)
- Montgomery Blair III (Nov. 9, 1898-Nov. 28, 1974)
  - Married Virginia Augusta Mason (1905-1986) in 1929
- Virginia Lafayette Blair Brooke (Dec. 21, 1899-Aug. 27, 1986)
  - Married Robert Clymer Brooke (Dec. 12, 1898-Dec. 22, 1992) in 1925
- William Draper Blair (Nov. 13, 1902-Oct. 2, 1994)
  - Married Mary Eula Mason (Sept. 27, 1906-Mar. 4, 1984) in 1926
- Ellen De Quincy Blair Jackson (May 25, 1905-Aug. 27, 1966)
  - Married Benjamin Jackson (Nov. 19, 1900-Apr. 1, 1984) in 1925
- Charles Blair (1914-)
  - Married Rosalind Mellon in 1934

Juliet Blair (1814-1816)
Laura Blair (1816- 1819)
Elizabeth Blair Lee (June 20, 1818-Sept. 13, 1906)

Married Samuel Phillips “Phil” Lee (Feb. 14, 1812-June 5, 1897) on April 27, 1843. He was the son of Francis Lightfoot Lee (1782-1850) and Jane Fitzgerald Lee (1789-1816), and the grandson of Richard Henry Lee.
Children:
- Francis Preston Blair Lee (1857-1944), known as “Blair Lee”

Married Anne Clymer Brooke Lee (Mar. 28, 1870-Dec. 24, 1903) in 1891. She was the daughter of Edward Brooke (1816-1878) and Annie Moore Clymer McKim (1849-1928)
Children:

Edward Brooke Lee (Oct. 23, 1892-Sept. 21, 1984)

Married Elizabeth Wilson in 1914

Phillips Brooke Lee (1895-?)

Married Elizabeth Wayne in 1926

Arthur Fitzgerald Lee (Dec. 9, 1900-May 4, 1905)

James Lawrence Blair (Oct. 7, 1819-Dec. 5, 1853)

Married Mary Serena Eliza Jesup (Dec. 7, 1825-June 6, 1914) on Jan. 14, 1846. She was the daughter of Quartermaster General Thomas Sidney Jesup (1788-1860) and Ann Heron Crogham Jesup (1797-1845).
Children:
- Ann Jesup Blair (Dec. 10, 1846- Mar. 18, 1847)

Violet Blair Janin (Aug. 14, 1848-Jan. 14, 1933)

Married Albert Covington Janin (1843-May 29, 1928) on May 14, 1874.
One child: Mary Blair Janin (May 14-May 15, 1878)

Jesup Blair (Feb. 13, 1852-Apr. 1, 1902)
Lucy James “Jimmie” Blair (Dec. 26, 1853-Feb. 4, 1902)

Married George Montague Wheeler (Oct. 9, 1842-May 3, 1905) on Dec. 16, 1874

Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (Feb. 19, 1821-July 9, 1875)

Married Agatha Apolline “Apo” Alexander (Sept. 14, 1828-Sept. 8, 1908) on Sept. 8, 1847. She was the daughter of Andrew Johnson Alexander (1796-1833) and Mira Lewis Madison Alexander (1803-1886) of Kentucky.
Children:
- Andrew Alexander Blair (Sept. 20, 1848-Jan. 25, 1932)

Married Anna Sitgreaves Biddle (1850-1932) in 1872

No children of their own, but they adopted their nephew Francis Preston Blair, III, the son of Cary Montgomery Blair.

Christine Biddle Blair Graham (Apr. 5, 1852-Mar. 8, 1915)

Married Benjamin Brown Graham (1840-Dec. 12, 1904) in 1881. He was the son of James Graham (1799-1860) and Mary L. Brown Graham (1807-1843). His children with his first wife Anna Spalding Graham (1840-1870):

Edward Spalding Graham (Sept. 11, 1865-May 18, 1867)
Josiah Spalding Graham (1867-Mar. 14, 1886)
Children:
- Francis “Frank” Price Blair Graham (Sept. 1, 1885-Apr. 13, 1886)
- Christine Alexander Graham Long (Jan. 14, 1888-1959)
  - Married Breckinridge Long (May 16, 1881-Sept. 26, 1958) in 1912. He was the son of Margaret Miller Breckinridge and William Strudwick Long of St. Louis, Missouri.
  - Children: Christine Long Willcox (Mar. 7, 1915-Sept. 15, 2013), who married Arnold A. Willcox (1912-1995)

James Lawrence Blair (Apr. 2, 1854-Jan. 16, 1904)

Married Blair cousin Apolline M. Alexander in 1883
Children:
- Percy A. Blair (1885-1966)
- Francis Preston Blair IV (1888-1939)

Francis Preston Blair III (Oct. 18, 1856-Nov. 2, 1914)
- Married Florence Price in 1882
  Children:
  - Emily Hockaday Blair (Nov. 16, 1883-1965)
George Madison Blair (Apr. 18, 1860-1881)
Cary Montgomery Blair (Mar. 4, 1867-Nov. 15, 1944)
- Married Emily Johnson (1858-Sept. 19, 1891) in 1890. She was the daughter of James Thomas Johnson (1828-1899) and Anna Mobberley Johnson (1829-1913).
- Children: Francis Preston Blair (Sept. 3, 1891-June 1, 1943), who was adopted after his mother’s death by his paternal uncle and aunt, Andrew Alexander Blair and Anna Biddle Blair.
Eveline M. Blair (1870-1876)
William Alexander Blair (June 8, 1873-Mar. 12, 1898)

Collection Blair Family Papers

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