Biography

This profile is part of the Blanchard Name Study.

Norman was born in 1885 to Carlisle Blanchard and Mary Baker. ^[1] He married Millicent Norton in 1910. Norman passed away in 1954. ^[2]

"The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the best-known and most prolific builders on Lake Union [Seattle]. Norman J. Blanchard (1885-1954), known as N. J., made rowboats before he was out of grade school, and he quit high school to work for a Lake Washington boat builder. By 1905 he had learned enough to partner in Johnson Brothers & Blanchard Boatyard on the Duwamish River." ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WQJ-9C2
2. ↑ California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGKD-21ND
3. ↑ https://www.historylink.org/file/20366

• United States Census, 1900: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMPN-6ZZ
• United States Census, 1910: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGV6-S6S
• United States Census, 1920: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHNK-YNS
• United States Census, 1930: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC3H-CW1
• United States Census, 1940: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K93H-QB4
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJT-6JN8
• United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q5MZ-HKRJ
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125257713/norman-joseph-blanchard
• https://classicyacht.org/research/classic-boat-builders-blanchard-boat-company

Some of the boats

• Ananda
• Arcadia
• Barnacle
• Blanche
• Caroline
• Contessa
• Cutterhead
• Dorleon
• Faun
• Gadget
• Josephine
• Malibu
• Mer-Na
• Red Jacket
• Resolute
• Sea Rest
• Sir Tom
• Susie
• Wanda

Other Seattle Area Boatbuilders and Designers

• John Anderson
• Norm Blanchard, Jr.
• Leigh Coolidge
• Frank Curtis
• Walt Curtis
• Al Curtis
• Otis Cutting
• Victor Arthur Franck
• Ruth Russell Franck
• Victor Russell Franck
• Bill Garden
• Ted Geary
• Lewis Grandy
• Earl Grandy
• Bill Grandy
• Tony Jensen
• Anchor Jensen
• Dewitt Jensen
• Harry Jones
• John McLean
• Frank Prothero
• Bob Prothero
• Robert Prothero, Jr.
• Sivert Sagstad
• George Stebbins