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JRNING HERALD.SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1899.ig of A. i thethereso-issue! the StateandaignAnthonyChristopherBlackfordKen-'Sweden and Norway the Ancestral Home of theits. ire usrulesady”fromlousepany:s atincee rrotsBlackford Family==Interesting Sketch byGenealogist S. M. Duncan.The great Scandinavian races inhabit queror ever shown with greater lustre Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland and after his death than Gustavus Adol-Denmark. The Swedes are said to be the purest representatives of the great original Aryan stock, to which all the people of Northern and Western Eu-20, 1796. Nathaniel Blackford, June 15, 1799. Hardin, March 30, 1801. Isaac, January 1, 1802. James, November 28, 1805. Catherine Vanarsdale, August 20, 1809; died in 1839. Anthony Blackford, who was the fourth child of Benjamin Blackford, was born in Jessamine county in 1739. He married Elizabeth Duncan, daughter of Charles Duncan, a great uncle of mine, and died in Shelby county, Mo., in 1848. Charles Blackford, Robert and James, were his sons, Robert P. Blackford is living at Wil-more, in Jessamine county, 86 years of age, born November 28, 1814. Lewis Gooch, of Lexington, is one of the grandsons of Benjamin Blackford.** S. M. IXNicholasville, Ky., Dec. 29, 1899.QUEER HIEROGLYPHICS ON TICKETphus. He was born at Stockholm in 1594. In 1611 he ascended the throneOut in California they conduct their betting transactions at the tracks in the old style that was in vogue in New York before the constitutional amendment was adopted. And the bettors and bookmakers are troubled in the same oldof Sweden, and lost his life at Lutzen, ■ way Tke hU,roglypMcs on the ticketsrope belong. They are the mother raceburnood-Uni-isits10m-1632, in the 39th year of his age. Charles XII. was another great general of the fair-haired inhabitants of the and is regarded as the hero of the Scan-world, by whatever local name they dinavian race. He has been compared could be called. When we turn our! by many historiails to Alexander theeyes toward Sweden and Norway we Great He was born on. the 22d of June, have before us, to use the language of 16g2 and was killed at ,the siege ofDr. Robinson, “the Stone-House of Na- Frederickshall, in Norway, December tions.” As these countries have been -j9 -^lgcalled the “Northern Hive,” it is prop- j \n conclusioili l trust you will not er to state that the countries beyond de£m it out of place to publish tne fo].boxIelecttheCenters’the Rhine, extending northward along the shores of the Atlantic ocean to tne Saggarace, are the true representatives of that race that over-run and destroyed the Roman Empiie in the West, af-lowing family record taken from am old family Bible of Anthony Christopher Blackford and sent to me a few years ago by Dr. W. T. Blackford, of Alabama, who was a surgeon in theter it had flourished 30 lt;years from the , Confederate army during the Civil War.Jtingns. ,ti. s atfeat-ou se3t toegin. E. elec-‘tjWnise. rded y E. well. )ow-Tohn unce1 to and)ticebattle of Actium, when the monarchy was established, and 1,224 years from the foundation of the city of Rome. History shows that the Romans, when pushing their conquests towards the north and east of Europe, many thousands of these northern and eastern tribes sought safety beyond the Rhine and the Danube, and found an asylum in the immense forests of Germany. In those fastnesses they had multiplied for three or four centuries, when the colossal hordes began to disgorge themselves, and assuming courage, attacked the forts, as well as the armed bodies which defended the streams, and penetrated into the Roman Empire. These tribes, however, were soon displaced by the bands who flocked from the extremities of the north and east of Europe, driving the Roman armies in tvtif 'direction, it -has’%een sakTby a historian that the Roman Empire resembled an immense valley, ravaged in all directions by an overflowing and furious current, “swallowing up everything in its impetuous and unrestrainedtorrent.” The Romans, in the height of their power, found the northern races of Europe formidable enemies, and they were at length the conquerors of Rome and the founders of the pres-trictfor-theLblicbyownrens,icantheforAnthony Christopher Blackford, the founder of the family in Sweden and in the American colonies, was born at Gombodo, July 8, 1650. MagdalineBonnstein, his wife, was born at the same place, April 10, 1654. They were married December 8, 1676.Names of children born to them: Jonathan Blackford, born May 11, 1678; Anthony Bonnstein Blackford, born July 6, 1680; Catherine Auker strom, April 10, 1682; John Bassolmeyer, January 19, 1683; Marrgetta, October 20, 1685; Hannah Christian, September 30, 1688; Harry Adolphus, May 18, 1689; James Korning, March 18, 1690; Isaac Blackford, January 18, 1691. Benjamin Blackford, the youngest son, married Elizabeth Ponsonby and settled in the colony of New Jersey in 1715. He was born in 1693, and was the American __. it A . -ancestor of the numerous Kimii} of Blackfords that settled in Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and other Western States.Names of his children: ElizabethBlackford, his first child, was born in what is now Morris county, N. J., October 19, 1717; Nancy Ann, October 20, 1719; Mary Jane, December 13, 1721; Sarah Morton, November 11, 1722;James Schomberg, September 20, 1725;ent nations of Europe. They destroyed Joseph Han way, June 1, 1726; Nathaniel,Roman civilization wherever they went.April 2, 1729; Isaac, February 26, 1730;About the year 320 Constantine the ( Charles Frederick, October 20,- 1732; Great became the sole master of the j Margaret Ponsonby, July 30, 1733. Mar-Roman Empire. He did whatever could | tin Blackford, the father of Benjamin be done by an accomplished statesman • Blackford, an early settler of Jessa-toward restoring the ancient empire to mine county, was born March 2, 1736. its former glory. But he did not reign j His father, Benjamin Blackford, died inare often so indistinct that a bettordoes not have to draw upon his imagination much to make them stand for any horse in a race, especially the luckyhorse. S2b8SJudge J. J. Burke, who is presiding' j judge at Tanforan Park, had to settle-a dispute between a bettor and a bookmaker during the recent meeting. Hewas handed a ticket which looked- like a Napamax pasteboard. The holder was. laboring under the delusion that he had bet on Merops. At least he tried to-make the bookmaker believe he did. The latter had no record of any such bet as marked on the card, and refused to pay. The holder then took his troubles to the stand, where he was sat upon again.“In nine cases out of ten the bookmakers are right,” said Judge Burke,, after sustaining the bookmaker in the-instance just mentioned. “The tickets are written so quickly thajt it is often impossible to say what horse they stand for without consulting the sheets.There are some men who fancy the-bookmaker has, by mistake, given him. a ticket on the winner, and he tries to-collect it. The marks on the ticket, will lock very much like the correct, ones. But the bookmakers make few mistakes.“The biggest bet I ever decided against a bookmaker was at Chicago on tne day Rey el Santa Anita won theDerby. A man came to mewith a ticket calling for $500 against.sa*c* ^ie kook refused to pay tT^Ilooked on the sheet, but there was; no mention made of the bet.“Then I asked the man how he came-to back Baldwin’s horse, and he said Jockey Van Kuren gave him the tip. The horse had been running well over at Latonia, and though I never expected to see him win the odds were false. The initials of Santa Anita were clearly stamped on the ticket, and I ordered it paid. I always thought the bookmaker wanted to beat the man out of his money.”A. me: icaHUGE MAP OF NEW YORK.ices.andion--no-test.S tO?rti-i jn-ated3ft P-i.se. s s-C'.CSncdOman i-The :calran.rire.andmi-lectian,youeye.over the ancient Romans. His people had been often defeated, humbled, enslaved and trampled in the dust, and the true Roman spirit was extinct. Augustus, the last of the Emperors, was conquered and dethroned by Oda-cer, an old Swede, King of the Herulic, who at the head of a large army overran Italy and completed the destruction of the Empire, which had flourished as above stated, 1224 years.It is not my intention to go into the history of modern Sweden and Norway, which is full of interest to the student of history. Many great generals, great statesmen and great theologians Sweden and Norway have given birth. One of the greatest soldiers of Sweden was Gustavius Vasa, who may be considered the founder of the modern kingdom of Sweden. He reigned in 1650 for overforty years, and his memory is today held in grateful reverence by the people whom he governed forty years. Gustavus Adolphus, another great man, was a great statesman as well as a great soldier. He was at the head of the great Protestant League, for opposing and humbling the power of the house of Austria. His great life opened up one of the most amazing series of splendid actions recorded in history. When we consider the power of the enemy whom he uniformly conquered, we shall see reasons for comparing him to Hannibal. Finding no equal in the north of Europe, he bent his course southward; and by a series of victories penetrated the heart of Germany. He defeated the famous Count De Tilley, the Austrian general, who was regarded as invincible, and gained a victory | equally complete over his successor, Wallenstein, but this great victory cost him his life. He was unfortunately killed after the field was won, and with his dying breath made the propheticdeclaration that he had won the liberties of Germany with his blood. The virtues and abilities of no hero or con-New Jersey, July 9, 1774, aged 83 years.Martin Blackford married Susan Wil-drick, second daughter of Isaac Wii-drick, a native of Sweden, and whose great grandson, Isaac Wildrick, served in Congress and a member of the United States Senate from New Jerseyin 1858. 'v^%Children of Martin Blackford and Susan Wildrick: Catherine Blackford, i married Nathaniel McLean, and was the mother of the late Chief Justice John McLean. She was born in Morris county, N. J., October 10, 1758, and married Nathaniel McLean on October 8, 1783. Judge McLean was also born in Morris county, N. J., in 1785. His father was born in the north of Ireland in 1753. He erected the first log cabin in Nicholasville in 1793, and afterwards made his home on the farm of his uncle, Benjamin Blackford, and here he lived 17 years. Isaac Blackford was born in New Jersey, December 2, 1760. Susan, April 20, 1761; died in infancy. Benjamin Blackford was born in Morris county, N. J., in 1762; died November 20, 1842, aged 82 years. In the spring of 1783 he settled in the present limits of Jessamine county on a farm of 250 acres, which is now' owned by his grandson, Robert Duncan. In 1785 he was married to Catherine Sandusky, daughter of Benjamin Sandusky, a cousin of Jacob Sandusky, the noted farmer of Bourbon county, Ky. His forefathers were natives of Poland, and came to the American colonies ten years before the Revolutionary War. They served under Count Pulaski and Kosciusko, in the war for American independence.Names of the children of Benjamin Blackford and Catherine Sandusky: Mary Broughton, born September 24, 1789. Nancy Duncan, wife of Wm. Broughton. Desiah Gooch, March 8, 1789. Nancy Dnusan, wife of Wm. Duncan, born December 17, 1791; died June 24, 1862. John, born SeptemberOne of the most interesting exhibitsto be sent from this country to the Paris Exposition will be a huge map of the city of New York, now in processof construction, says the New YorkSun. It will measure 28 by 24 feet,showing on a scale of 600 feet to theinch all the boroughs of the greatercity and much adjoining territory in this State and New Jersey.Besides showing * all the parks, streets, piers, ferries and railway lines, the map displays the contour lines and elevations of every point in the city, honkers, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle are also included, as well as Sandy Hook, the fortifications to the southward, and part of New Jersey on the west. More than 1,000 square miles of territory are embraced. All street systems proposed or in process of construction are indicated.A hardwood platform and bronze brackets and railings make up the mounting for the map, the platform being three feet high on one side and two on the other, so that the surface is inclined and easy for the spectator to examine. In each corner will be a pen-and-ink drawing, twelve by eighteen inches, depicting some notable view in the city, and around the edge are to be? smaller sketches of various public; buildings. These drawings are all being made by draughtsmen in Mr. Rise’s;department. A separate table at the| foot of the main map will contain a copy of a relief map now in the State, museum at Albany, showing Manhattan: Island in 1776, and at the head ther^ will be placed two charts of the city a it looked in 1641 and 1800. Altogether the four maps will afford a study of the* city’s growth during more than 300 years, and a supplemental table of statistics will also be issued. This will contain information both French and English about the industries of the* city and other subjects of interest, and is designed especially for foreigners.According to Mr. Risse, similar maps are being made for the exposition by several other cities, but none of such proportions as this one, the largest of them being ten by twelve feet square. Owing to its bulk the heaviest kind of paper is being used on the New York map, and there is a back stratum of linen. Durability, as well as perfection in drawing, is aimed at, so that two-* trips across the ocean will not prevent, the work from doing many years of service.
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