He was born in 1849 in Cherokee County, Alabama to Joseph Blakemore and Nancy Saxon.
In the spring of 1874 he received the degree of bachelor of the arts at Tennessee Wesleyan College. An article in the Knoxville Weakly Chronicle about the commencement exercises says “John T. Blakemore then delivered the Valedictory Oration - “Cux Lux” the subject. Mr. B. impresses one rather favorably, and going, as he is, into the ministry, he will be heard from in the field of oratory.” He married Maggie Ziegler on May 28, 1874 in McMinn County, Tennessee .
For some years he was a minister of the Gospel (Methodist) in Dekalb county, Alabama; but by 1880 he was in Middlebury, Indiana. A news clipping dated December 9: “we met Elder Blakemore, of the Methodist church, an eloquent preacher, who after thirty years residence in Alabama was forced to leave because of his political belief...”
On the 1880 census he is living in Elkhart County, Indiana.
September 6, 1882 in the Fort Wayne, Indiana Daily Gazette: “Hon. John T. Blakemore, one of the ablest newspaper men in the state, has retired from the editorship of the Middleburg Record. The paper has been sold to Frank Blakemore [a younger brother]”
He is next found in North Dakota territory, where he was elected to the territorial legislature. On January 16, 1885, The Bismarck Weekly Tribune included short biographies for “Statesmen Assembled at the City of Bismarck who have come to the capital to legislate for the northwest empire.” His reads “John T. Blakemore, a member from the sixth district is 36 years old; came to Dakota from Indiana in 1883. He is a journalist and was born in Cherokee, Alabama, and is a graduate of East Tennessee University class of 1874. During the war Mr. Blakemore's father was living at Cherokee, Alabama, and Major Edwards, now of the Fargo Argus, but at that time commanding a regiment of soldiers, stopped at his house for dinner. Present address, Highmore.”
By 1895 he is back in Alabama. In 1897 he leased mining properties in Cherokee county. On the 1900 census he is living in Fort Payne, Dekalb county, Alabama employed as a teacher. In 1910 he is a postmaster in Birmingham. His death certificate says he was a school teacher.
In the spring of 1874 he received the degree of bachelor of the arts at Tennessee Wesleyan College. An article in the Knoxville Weakly Chronicle about the commencement exercises says “John T. Blakemore then delivered the Valedictory Oration - “Cux Lux” the subject. Mr. B. impresses one rather favorably, and going, as he is, into the ministry, he will be heard from in the field of oratory.” He married Maggie Ziegler on May 28, 1874 in McMinn County, Tennessee .
For some years he was a minister of the Gospel (Methodist) in Dekalb county, Alabama; but by 1880 he was in Middlebury, Indiana. A news clipping dated December 9: “we met Elder Blakemore, of the Methodist church, an eloquent preacher, who after thirty years residence in Alabama was forced to leave because of his political belief...”
On the 1880 census he is living in Elkhart County, Indiana.
September 6, 1882 in the Fort Wayne, Indiana Daily Gazette: “Hon. John T. Blakemore, one of the ablest newspaper men in the state, has retired from the editorship of the Middleburg Record. The paper has been sold to Frank Blakemore [a younger brother]”
He is next found in North Dakota territory, where he was elected to the territorial legislature. On January 16, 1885, The Bismarck Weekly Tribune included short biographies for “Statesmen Assembled at the City of Bismarck who have come to the capital to legislate for the northwest empire.” His reads “John T. Blakemore, a member from the sixth district is 36 years old; came to Dakota from Indiana in 1883. He is a journalist and was born in Cherokee, Alabama, and is a graduate of East Tennessee University class of 1874. During the war Mr. Blakemore's father was living at Cherokee, Alabama, and Major Edwards, now of the Fargo Argus, but at that time commanding a regiment of soldiers, stopped at his house for dinner. Present address, Highmore.”
By 1895 he is back in Alabama. In 1897 he leased mining properties in Cherokee county. On the 1900 census he is living in Fort Payne, Dekalb county, Alabama employed as a teacher. In 1910 he is a postmaster in Birmingham. His death certificate says he was a school teacher.
He was born in 1849 in Cherokee County, Alabama to Joseph Blakemore and Nancy Saxon.
In the spring of 1874 he received the degree of bachelor of the arts at Tennessee Wesleyan College. An article in the Knoxville Weakly Chronicle about the commencement exercises says “John T. Blakemore then delivered the Valedictory Oration - “Cux Lux” the subject. Mr. B. impresses one rather favorably, and going, as he is, into the ministry, he will be heard from in the field of oratory.” He married Maggie Ziegler on May 28, 1874 in McMinn County, Tennessee .
For some years he was a minister of the Gospel (Methodist) in Dekalb county, Alabama; but by 1880 he was in Middlebury, Indiana. A news clipping dated December 9: “we met Elder Blakemore, of the Methodist church, an eloquent preacher, who after thirty years residence in Alabama was forced to leave because of his political belief...”
On the 1880 census he is living in Elkhart County, Indiana.
September 6, 1882 in the Fort Wayne, Indiana Daily Gazette: “Hon. John T. Blakemore, one of the ablest newspaper men in the state, has retired from the editorship of the Middleburg Record. The paper has been sold to Frank Blakemore [a younger brother]”
He is next found in North Dakota territory, where he was elected to the territorial legislature. On January 16, 1885, The Bismarck Weekly Tribune included short biographies for “Statesmen Assembled at the City of Bismarck who have come to the capital to legislate for the northwest empire.” His reads “John T. Blakemore, a member from the sixth district is 36 years old; came to Dakota from Indiana in 1883. He is a journalist and was born in Cherokee, Alabama, and is a graduate of East Tennessee University class of 1874. During the war Mr. Blakemore's father was living at Cherokee, Alabama, and Major Edwards, now of the Fargo Argus, but at that time commanding a regiment of soldiers, stopped at his house for dinner. Present address, Highmore.”
By 1895 he is back in Alabama. In 1897 he leased mining properties in Cherokee county. On the 1900 census he is living in Fort Payne, Dekalb county, Alabama employed as a teacher. In 1910 he is a postmaster in Birmingham. His death certificate says he was a school teacher.
In the spring of 1874 he received the degree of bachelor of the arts at Tennessee Wesleyan College. An article in the Knoxville Weakly Chronicle about the commencement exercises says “John T. Blakemore then delivered the Valedictory Oration - “Cux Lux” the subject. Mr. B. impresses one rather favorably, and going, as he is, into the ministry, he will be heard from in the field of oratory.” He married Maggie Ziegler on May 28, 1874 in McMinn County, Tennessee .
For some years he was a minister of the Gospel (Methodist) in Dekalb county, Alabama; but by 1880 he was in Middlebury, Indiana. A news clipping dated December 9: “we met Elder Blakemore, of the Methodist church, an eloquent preacher, who after thirty years residence in Alabama was forced to leave because of his political belief...”
On the 1880 census he is living in Elkhart County, Indiana.
September 6, 1882 in the Fort Wayne, Indiana Daily Gazette: “Hon. John T. Blakemore, one of the ablest newspaper men in the state, has retired from the editorship of the Middleburg Record. The paper has been sold to Frank Blakemore [a younger brother]”
He is next found in North Dakota territory, where he was elected to the territorial legislature. On January 16, 1885, The Bismarck Weekly Tribune included short biographies for “Statesmen Assembled at the City of Bismarck who have come to the capital to legislate for the northwest empire.” His reads “John T. Blakemore, a member from the sixth district is 36 years old; came to Dakota from Indiana in 1883. He is a journalist and was born in Cherokee, Alabama, and is a graduate of East Tennessee University class of 1874. During the war Mr. Blakemore's father was living at Cherokee, Alabama, and Major Edwards, now of the Fargo Argus, but at that time commanding a regiment of soldiers, stopped at his house for dinner. Present address, Highmore.”
By 1895 he is back in Alabama. In 1897 he leased mining properties in Cherokee county. On the 1900 census he is living in Fort Payne, Dekalb county, Alabama employed as a teacher. In 1910 he is a postmaster in Birmingham. His death certificate says he was a school teacher.
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