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- BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW , VOLUME XXV, CONTAINING LIFE SKETCHES OF LEADING CITIZENS OF NORFOLK COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON
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HENRY BLACKMAN, an enterprising farmer of Needham, was born in Dorchester, Mass., September 8, 1823, s/o Henry and Caroline M. (Enslin) Blackman. The family came originally from England, and settled in Dorchester, in which town Jonathan Blackman, grandfather of Henry, was born, lived, and died. Henry Blackman, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Dorchester in 1803. He was engaged for some time in the junk business there, and carried on the same business in Boston after becoming a resident of Needham. He was also engaged in farming. He died January 26, 1863. His wife, Caroline, who was born February 8, 1804, and is now living in Needham, is a daughter of John Frederick Enslin, formerly of Boston.
Their son, Henry Blackman, was educated in the public schools of Dorchester, pursuing his studies until he was fifteen years of age, when he came to Needham with his father, and began working on the farm. He now owns a farm of twenty-eight acres on Greendale Avenue, in the eastern part of Needham. He makes a specialty of milk and pork, and has also dealt quite extensively in wood. He served the town as Selectman for two years, has been Surveyor of Highways, was a fire engineer for ten years, and also served as fire warden. He attends the First Parish (Unitarian) Church, and was a member of the Standing Committee for a number of years.
Mr. Blackman married in 1870 Jane C, a daughter of David Young, of Loudon Centre, NH, and has had two children: Carrie M., born in 1871, who married William Tilton, and died in December, 1895; and Henry D., born in 1874, who was educated in Comer's Commercial School, married Mabel A. Dodge, and now resides on the farm.
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