Background
Blair, Algernon was born on August 6, 1873 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Alexander and Hannah (Farnell) Blair.
Blair, Algernon was born on August 6, 1873 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Alexander and Hannah (Farnell) Blair.
Graduate Macon, Georgia, high school, 1888.
In business as contractor in own name, at Montgomery, Alabama, since 1902. Has built industrial and commercial plants, schools and federal public buildings throughout South, including Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, veterans hospitals at Dawson Springs, Kentucky, Tuskegee, Alabama, Northport, New York, Perryville, Maryland., Roanoke, Virginia, Gulfport, Mississippi and Montgomery, Alabama. Post offices, including Beaumont, Texas, Jacksonville, Florida, Key West, Florida, Montgomery, Alabama, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Galveston, Austin, Amarillo, Texas, and Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Smithfield Court and Central City housing projects, Birmingham, Alabama.
Also Riverside Heights and Cleveland Courts, Montgomery, Alabama, and many other housing projects. Airfields, ordnance plants, camps, hospitals, and other facilities War and Navy Departments since 1940.
Director First National Bank, Montgomery.
Member “The Thirteen” of Montgomery (literature and philosophical society). Mason.; Clubs: Beauvoir, Rotary International (past directory).
Married Caroline Livingston Singleton, June 15, 1898 (died 1905). Married second, Adele Blue, July 14, 1908. Children: Alfred Farnell, Elisabeth (Mistress Henry Grady Pannell), Carolyn (Mistress Charles Franklin Voltz).
