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Appoline Alexander Blair | |
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| Born | Appoline Agatha Alexander September 14, 1828 |
| Died | September 5, 1908 (aged 79) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Resting place | Bellefontaine Cemetery St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Children | 8 |
Appoline Agatha Alexander Blair (née Alexander; September 14, 1828 – September 5, 1908)[1] was an American philanthropist, hospital founder, and wife of Senator (and Civil War general) Francis Preston Blair Jr.
Biography
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Appoline Agatha Alexander was born to Andrew Alexander of Woodford County, Kentucky. She married Francis Preston Blair Jr. on September 8, 1847, and had eight children.[2][3] In 1878, after losing two children to illness, Blair gathered a group of 20 prominent women and organized the St. Louis Children's Hospital, for which she served as the first president of the Board of Managers.[4][5][6] She is credited with the creation of the St. John's Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, in 1896.[citation needed] She died on September 5, 1908, at the home of her daughter in St. Louis.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Graves of Appoline and Francis Blair at Bellefontaine Cemetery
- ↑ "Francis P. Blair, Jr". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. July 10, 1868. p. 3. Retrieved February 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Francis Preston Blair Jr". HarpWeek. Archived from the original on October 7, 2016. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
- ↑ St. Louis Children's Hospital website.
- ↑ Missouri Women, Health Sciences, Biographies (website).
- ↑ "Charity's Home". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. June 28, 1891. p. 11. Retrieved October 8, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Mrs. F. P. Blair is Dead". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. September 6, 1908. p. 1. Retrieved February 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.