Background
She was born in Kentucky to Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet Gist Blair.
She was born in Kentucky to Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet Gist Blair.
She was the sister of Montgomery Blair, James Blair, and Francis Preston Blair, Junior. When the family moved to Blair House across the street from the White House, the President, Vice-President and Cabinet members were frequent guests. Elizabeth lived in the White House one winter because of her health problems from dampness at Blair House.
According to one version of the story, Elizabeth was present with her father when they chanced upon the silver-flecked spring which would inspire the name of the family"s summer home in what would eventually become Silver Spring, Maryland.
The spring site is memorialized at Silver Spring"s Acorn Park though the water source was disrupted in the 1950s. Samuel Phillips Lee, a United States Navy commander in the Union Army during the Civil War. and Silver Spring, Maryland, during the war.
Elizabeth was the mother of Blair Lee, a United States senator from Maryland.