Prof.
Eli
Whitney
Blake
Jr.
Born in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Eli Whitney Blake
and Eliza Maria (O'Brien) Blake
Brother of
Mary Elizabeth (Blake) Bushnell, Henrietta Whitney (Blake) MacWhorter, Charles Thompson Blake, Henry Taylor Blake, Robert Pierpont Blake, George Augustus Blake, Eliza Maria Blake, Frances Louisa (Blake) Osborne, Edward Foster Blake, James Pierrepont Blake and Eliza Maria (Blake) Seely
Husband of
Helen Mary (Rood) Blake
— married
18 Mar 1860 [location unknown]
Father of
Alida Gouverneur (Blake) Hazard and Eli Whitney Blake 3rd
Died
at age 59
in Hampton, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Apr 2015
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Biography
His great-uncle was Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.
His father was the inventor of the Blake stone-breaker used in road building and was also the friend and helper of Morse in the early days of the telegraph.
Between 1866 and 1870 he taught at the University of Vermont, Columbia, and Cornell. In 1870 he was named the first Hazard Professor of Physics at Brown University.
Parents:
- Eli Whitney Blake 1795 – 1886
- Eliza Maria OBrien 1795 – 1876
Sources
- Biographical Sketches of The Members of The Class of 1816, Yale College (T.J. Stafford, New Haven, 1867) Page 6.
- Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Co., 1913) Page 101.
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