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William blake was born on June 21, 1825, in New York City, New York, United States, the son of Adeline (Mix) Blake and of Elihu Blake, a prominent surgeon dentist and lineal descendant of William Blake who settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony about 1630.
W. P. Blake was fitted for college at private schools in New York and entered the Sheffield Scientific School to graduate in the course in chemistry in 1852.
Blake became chemist and mineralogist of the New Jersey Zinc Company and chemist of the chemical works at Baltimore, Maryland. In 1854-1856 he was one of the geologists of the Pacific Railroad surveys. From 1856 to 1859 he was engaged in investigating the mineral resources of North Carolina and adjacent regions and in the last-named year became editor and proprietor of the Mining Magazine, the name of which he subsequently changed to the Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology, Mineralogy and Metallurgy, Chemistry and the Arts. The venture did not prove a success, in part owing to the approach of the Civil War, and the publication was suspended in 1860. In 1861-1863 Blake was employed as mining engineer by the Japanese government and in company with Raphael Pumpelly he organized the first school of science in Japan and taught there both chemistry and geology.
In 1863 Blake returned to the United States by way of Alaska and explored the Stickeen River region, discovering and describing the Stickeen glacier. Returning to California he resumed his profession of mining engineer, making special studies of the Comstock Lode, and in 1864 he was appointed mineralogist of the state board of agriculture, and also professor of mineralogy and geology in the College of California (afterwards the University of California at Berkeley). In 1867 he was appointed commissioner for California to the Paris Exposition and was editor of the six volumes of reports of the United States Commissioners.
In 1871 Blake was chief of the scientific corps of the United States to Santo Domingo, and in 1873 he was commissioner of the United States to the Vienna International Exposition. His manifest efficiency in this capacity led to his appointment by the Smithsonian Institution to collect and install the government exhibit, illustrating the mineral resources of the United States, at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. His work in the preparation of this exhibit was enormous but highly successful. These collections, in connection with those of several foreign governments turned over at the close of the exposition, formed the basis of the New National Museum's collections begun in 1879-1880. To Blake also fell the somewhat onerous task of editing the notes and describing the fossils collected long before by the French-American geologist, Jules Marcou, who, through a falling out with the then secretary of state, had relinquished his work, leaving his collections in confusion, and had returned to France.
Blake was for some fifteen years engaged in sundry economic surveys in the West, and in 1895, although already in his seventieth year, he became professor of geology and mining, and director of the School of Mines at the University of Arizona at Tucson. This position he resigned in 1905, but retained until his death the honorary and nonsalaried appointment of territorial mineralogist and geologist, to which he had been appointed in 1898. He died from pneumonia at Berkeley in 1910.
William Blake was a famous geologist of his time. One of his major scientific contributions was observation of a theory on erosion by wind-blown sand on the geologic formations of southern California, which he did while serving as a geologist with the Pacific Railroad Survey of the Far West from 1853 to 1856. Blake also was the author of several works, most important of which were: "Tombstone and Its Mines, " "Ceramic Art and Glass, " "Life of Captain John Mix. "
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Blake was a founding member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
Blake stood all of six feet in height and with his strong features and abundant growth of beard and snow-white hair made a very striking appearance. He is stated to have been an ideal teacher, a strong, aggressive fighter, fair and aboveboard in all things.
On Dececember 25, 1855, Blake was married to Charlotte Haven Lord Hayes.
