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Portrait And Biographical Album Of Mecosta County, Mich. Containing
Portraits And Biographical Sketches of Prominent And Representative
Citizens of the County together with Portraits And Biographies of All The
Presidents Of The United States  And Governors of the State.  Also
Containing A Complete History of The County, From Its Earliest Settlement
To the Present Time.  Chicago, Chapman Bros. 1883

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BLACKMAR, P.
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P. Blackmar, of the firm of Paul Blackmar & Co., dealers and manufacturers
of lumber, shilgles and lath, and pine-land dealers at Big Rapids, was born
at Detroit, Aug. 27, 1855.  He is a son of Thomas S. and Mary E. (Williams)
Blackmar.  His father was a prominent attorney of Detroit, where he located
about 1850 and opened a law office with Wm. A. Moore, now an eminent member
of the Michigan bar.  The senior Blackmar was Circuit Court Commissioner a
long term of years, and died at Detroit in the fall of 1869.  The mother
was a daughter of Prof. Geo. P. Williams, of Michigan University, where he
held his first chair of Mathematics and Metaphysics, which he retained a
long period, and was finally retired on half-pay.  Mr. Blackmar died at
Detroit, in 1864.

Mr. P. Blackmar obtained his elementary education at the public schools,
chiefly at the Cass union school under Prof. Nichols.  After the demise of
his father, he went to Leavenworth, Kan., and there studied and taught
school.  he went thence to Mount Lincoln, Gray’s Peak, and to the vicinity
of Leadville, and was there engaged as a miner and in other occupations
four years.  He returned to Detroit and entered the office of T. W. Palmer,
and about the year 1878 had charge of the entire business of that
gentleman, representing at that time one and a half million dollars.
The manufacturing firm of McGraft & Montgomery at Muskegon dissolved July
1, 1882.  Mr. Blackmar bought an interest in the concern Jan. 1, 1881

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and on the dissolution named, in connection with Martin Kelly of Grand
Rapids, he commenced the purchase and sale of timber on the branches of the
Muskegon.  T. W. Palmer, of Detroit, became interested in the enterprise in
the fall of 1882, and during the ensuing winter the firm purchased and put
in the river about twelve million feet of logs, a large proportion of which
is being sawed at the old Tioga Mills, bought by Thomas S. Tew, of Hood,
Gale & Co.  In the summer of 1883 Mr. Blackmar purchased the claim of Mr.
Kelly and is now managing the business alone; is also operating in the
interest of Mr. Palmer.  The latter has, on the Muskegon and its
tributaries near this point, sixty million feet of standing timber (pine).
The amount handled the current season will be twenty million feet of
lumber, from ten to fifteen million feet of shingles and a large amount of
lath.

Mr. Blackmar was married at Detroit, Sept., 9, 1879, to Georgia A.,
daughter of George and Ellen Rice, born Aug. 18, 1855.  Mr. and Mrs.
Blackmar have two sons, -- Thomas P., born at Detroit, July 8, 1880, and
William E., born at Muskegon, Jan. 12, 1882.

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