Horace LeRoy Blair and Isabel Garber

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Husband Horace LeRoy Blair ¹

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           Born: 26 Feb 1892 - Clarendon, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: Humphrey Blair (1848-Bef 1919) 1
         Mother: Mary Ann Nicklin (1853-Aft 1919) 2

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       Marriage: 5 Jul 1927 1

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Wife Isabel Garber ¹

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         Father: James L. Garber (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Josephine Bimber (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M William L. Blair ¹

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           Born: 9 Oct 1928 1
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2 M Dean L. Blair ¹

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           Born: 27 Mar 1932 1
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General Notes: Husband - Horace LeRoy Blair

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After passing through the public and high schools of Clarendon, Pennsylvania, he interested himself in a career as an educator. He entered the Edin­boro State Teachers' College and studied also at Penn­sylvania State College and Oberlin College, finally return­ing to Edinboro State Teachers' College to obtain his degree of Bachelor of Science in Education in 1931 and the degree of Master of Education at the University of Pittsburgh in 1934. He began the practice of his profes­sion by teaching school in Clarendon in 1912. In 1915 he was appointed assistant to the superintendent of schools of Warren County, Pennsylvania. He interrupted his career in 1917 by enlisting in the United States Army. Sent to Camp Lee in Virginia for training, he was made a corporal and attached to Company C, 305th Ammunition Train, 80th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. After service in France, he was returned home to Philadelphia and given his honorable discharge from Camp Dix in 1919.
During his enlistment, his training as a teacher was turned to account by his being placed in charge of army schools both at Camp Lee and in France, experience which, with his previous work as a teacher, helped him to resume his position as assistant superintendent of schools of Warren County in 1919. He held this position until 1938, when he was elected superintendent of schools. A mem­ber of the Republican party, although independent as a voter, Mr. Blair gave generously of his time to va­rious civic organizations, being chairman of the leadership training committee of the Warren County Council of the Boy Scouts of America, a president of the Warren Rotary Club, and a member of the Young Men's Christian Association for more than twenty-five years. Active in the work of the First Methodist Church of Warren, he was a member of the organization's board of trustees and was president of the men's Bible class. He was a member of North Star Lodge, No. 341, Free and Accepted Ma­sons, supported the Warren County Historical Society, and maintained his military relationships by membership in Chief Cornplanter Post, No. 135, American Legion.

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 343.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 620.