Blake, Eli Whitney, 1836-1895.
Blake family papers, 1773-1921.
The papers consist of correspondence, financial papers, printed material, photographs, and miscellanea of the Blake family of New Haven, Connecticut. Several generations of family members are represented in the papers, including Eli Whitney, Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1886), Eli Whitney Blake (1836-1895), Henry Taylor Blake (1828-1922), and William Phipps Blake (1826-). Additional family members represented in the papers include: Charles Thompson Blake, Edward Foster Blake, James Pierrepont Blake, Dotha Bushnell, George Bushnell, George Ensign Bushnell, Mary Elizabeth Bushnell, and members of the Hazard, MacWhorter, Osborne, and Rice families. Topics discussed in these papers include a wide variety of personal and family-related concerns, the estates of several family members, including Eli Whitney, and the professional careers of many of the above-named individuals. The scientific and inventing pursuits of Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1896), the academic career of physicist Eli Whitney Blake (1826-1895), the geological and mineralogical interests of William Phipps Blake are documented, as are the legal and political activites of Henry Taylor Blake, the hand craft industry operated by Dotha Bushnell, and the Civil War duties of Edward Foster Blake.
Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1886) graduated from Yale in 1816 and assisted his uncle, Eli Whitney, in the operation of a gun factory in New Haven, Connecticut. Blake continued the business after Whitney's death. In 1858 he invented the Blake crusher, a machine which broke stone into gravel. Blake wrote scientific papers and received an honorary degree (LL.D.) from Yale in 1875.
Eli Whitney Blake (1836-1895) graduated from Yale College in 1857. He served as professor of chemistry at the University of Vermont (1867), professor of physics at Cornell University (1868-1870), acting professor of physics at Columbia (1868-1869), and professor of physics at Brown University (1870-1886).
William Phipps Blake (1826-?) received the degree of Ph.B. from Yale in 1852. He served as geologist and mineralogist for a U.S. Pacific railroad expedition and became a professor of mineralogy and geology.
Henry Taylor Blake (1828-1922) graduated from Yale in 1848 (A.B.) and studied at the Yale Law School.
Blake, Eli Whitney, 1795-1886.
Blake, Eli Whitney, 1836-1895.
Blake, Henry Taylor, 1828-1922.
Blake, William P. (William Phipps), 1826-1910
Yale University
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Blake, Eli Whitney, 1795-1886.
Blake, Henry Taylor, 1828-1922.
Blake, William P. (William Phipps), 1826-1910
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