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Blakeslee, Prof. D. A., A.M., was born in Savona, Steuben county, in 1837. He is the son of Lyman Blakeslec,
who was born in the Green Mountains of Vermont, moving with his parents to Cortland county in or about the year
1813, thence to Steuben county in 1835, where he engaged in farming, which he followed until advancing age compelled
him to retire. He now resides with his daughter, Mrs. R. C. Morgan, of Hornellsville. The boyhood and youth of
Professor Blakeslee were spent on his father's farm, attending school in the winter, and, later, teaching. In 1861
he entered Alfred University, where he appeared in a homespun suit of his mother's own work, and he graduated in
1866 with the degree of A.B. Later he was for eight years professor of English in the Normal department of his
aima mater, which indicates the confidence and appreciation in which he was held by the faculty and students of
that noted school. For thirteen years he was principal of Grammar School No. 2, in Elmira, for five years principal
at Wellsville, and he has also held the principalship of the Union School and Free Academy in Addison, which has
maintained, under his administration, its high standing among the schools of the county and of this part of the
State. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1866 he married Miss Lizzie La Force, of Wayne, N. Y. They
have one daughter, Julia La Force, also a graduate of Alfred University, who is the wife of Dr. William E. Barron,
a well known and popular young physician of Addison. Professor Blakeslee's work has always been of a high order,
being characterized by simplicity and thoroughness, and his administration has been firm yet of such a type as
to secure the hearty assent of the students, and to develop in them those elements of self direction t.hat grow
up into the best manhood and womanhood.
From:
Landmarks of Steuben County, New York
Edited by: Hon. Harlo Hakes
Assisted by: L. C. Aldrich and others
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1896
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