ELI WHITNEY BLAKE, LLD. 



Eli Whitney Blake was born in New Haven, 

 Connecticut, April twentieth, 1836. He was the son 

 of Eli Whitney Blake and Eliza Maria O'Brien, his 

 wife ; the one a nephew of Eli Whitney, the inventor, 

 the other a great-grand-daughter of Rev. James 

 Pierpont, the principal founder of Yale College. 



He graduated from Yale in the class of 1857, 

 holding membership in the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra- 

 ternity, the Skull and Bones, and other societies. 



After graduation he spent a year in teaching at 

 a private school in Unionville, Connecticut, and sub- 

 sequently studied for another year in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School. 



Later he studied for three and a half years in 

 Germany ; at Heidelberg under Kirchhoff and Bunsen, 

 at Marburg under Kolbe, at Berlin under Dove and 

 Magnus. He devoted his attention to both chemistry 



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