Background
Blackall, Christopher Rubey was born on September 18, 1830 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Benjamin and Sarah Blackall.
Blackall, Christopher Rubey was born on September 18, 1830 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Benjamin and Sarah Blackall.
Educational public schools. Doctor of Medicine Hygieo Therapeutic Medical College, New York, 1856, and Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1865. (Doctor of Divinity, Carson and Newman College, 1890, Temple College, 1906).
Father of Clarence Howard B. Assistant surgeon 33d Wisconsin Volumes, early part Civil War. Abandoned medicine, 1864. General superintendent and editor, Chicago Sunday School Union, 1864-1865.
Secretary and manager northwestern district American Baptist Public Society, 1865-1879. Connected with New York and Philadelphia branch houses, 1869-1880. Editor of periodicals, 1880-1916, editor emeritus, December, 1916, of the American Baptist Public Society, Philadelphia Ordained to Christian ministry, 1880.
Author: Our Sunday School Work and How to Do lt, 1877. Story of Six Decades, 1885. Belshazzar (cantata), 1890.
Stories About Jesus, 1897. The Son of Timeus, 1914. A Daughter of Naien, 1915.
Beautiful Magdalene, 1916. Days of ’63, 1919. Home: Philadelphia.
Married Eliza Davis, 1852. Married second, Mistress.; married 3d, Mistress.