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Counties of PORTER and Lake Indiana.
Historical and Biographical
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor
Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
F. A. Battey & Co., Pub., Chicago - 1882

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        JOHN K. BLACKSTONE, physician and surgeon, is a native of Ohio, and
     the second of the eight children born to WILLIAM and JULIA M.
     (DODDRIDGE) BLACKSTONE; the former was a physician, and a native of
     Virginia; he died March 17, 1877, aged eighty-three years; the latter
     a Pennsylvania, who is still living, aged seventy-six years.  JOHN K.
     BLACKSTONE commenced his education in a common school at Waverly,
     Ohio, and afterward attended the Ohio University for five years.  In
     1846, he enlisted for the war with Mexico, in Company E, Second Ohio
     Regiment, and became Second Lieutenant.  On his return, he read medi-
     cine with his father, also attending a course of lectures at Louis-
     ville, Ky., and afterward at Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated in
     1848.  He commenced practice in Athens County, Ohio, but came to
     Hebron, Ind., in 1856, where he is now the oldest living practitioner,
     and has limited the practice among his former friends. On February 11,
     1858, he married Miss MARGARET J. BRYAN, a native of Boone Township,
     and the fist white child born therein, a daughter of SIMEON and
     ELIZABETH BRYAN.  Mr. and Mrs. BLACKSTONE have four children - WILLIAM
     B., JOHN K., LILIAN E., and BENJAMIN E.  Mrs. BLACKSTONE is a member
     of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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