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David Evans Blair
Des Moines County
Was the first County Assessor, and also County Treasurer, and purchased for the county the land on which Rushville, the county seat, is located. In 1819, Mr. Blair married Sarah Job, a native of Baltimore, Maryland. In 1824 he went to Atlas, by canoe and on foot to vote against a Convention to amend the constitution of the State, legalizing slavery in Illinois. In 1834 he made claims west of the Mississippi River, and in 1836 moved over. He settled on what was known as Round Prairie, now in Yellow Spring Township, Des Moines County. Mr. Blair reared his family, cultivated his farm, and lived a quiet and useful life. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church from the beginning, and active in all church work. David E. Blair was a Representative from Des Moines county in 1841, and again in 1842, and also in the First State Legislature in 1846.
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