In Memoriam Founders And Makers of Illinois a Memorial History of the States
In Memoriam Founders And Makers of Illinois a Memorial History of the States
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He gave generous assistance and also that kindly advice which enabled another to take up the duties and responsibilities of life with renewed courage. He is an outstanding example of a patriotic and public-spirited citizen who loved alike his native land and his adopted country and who served the greatest and the least with equal fervor and loyalty. LIBRARY or THE UNIVERSn / OF ILilNOic iimotlji) Pearl) Ijlarkotone BUILD up rather than destroy was the broad policy upon which Timothy Beach Black...stone builded his business career. He attacked everything with a con- tageous enthusiasm and at all times his progressive- ness was tempered by a safe conservatism that prevented unwarranted risks or failures. He was for thirty-five years the president of the Chicago & Alton Raihsay Company and pre- vious to that time was connected for a brief period with other railway interests of the middle west. His birth occurred at Branford, Connecti- cut, March 28, 1829, and he traced his ancestors to William Blackstone, or Blaxton, as the name was sometimes spelled, who, according to authentic local records, was a resident of Boston as early as 1623.
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