From "The Kentucky Encyclopedia" by John E. Kleber, Editor in Chief, Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, Jams C. Klotter, Associate Editors, pub. by the University Press of Kentucky. I didn't copy the copyright page. I see that the Los Angeles Public Library obtained the book in 1992. So it was published before then. Page 83, column 2. (2 lines go to page 84). BLACKBURN, JOSEPH CLAY STILES. Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, U.S. Senator, was born to Edward and Lavinia Blackburn on October 1, 1838, in Spring Station, Woodford County, Kentucky. He attended Frankfort Academy and graduated form Centre College in Danville in 1857. He read law under George B. Kinkead and was admitted to the bar in 1858. After practicing law in Chicago for two years, he returned to Kentucky in 1860 to work in the presidential campaign of John C. Breckinridge. In 1861 Blackburn joined the Confederate army as a private. He volunteered as aide de camp to Brig. Gen. William Preston, receiving the rank of captain, and fought with distinction in the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga. He later was a lieutenant colonel under Gen. Leonidas Polk along the Mississippi River and in 1864 was given the command of a cavalry battalion in the District of Mississippi and East Louisiana under Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner. Blackburn moved to Arkansas at the end of the war, practicing law and engaging in farming in Desha County. In 1868 he returned to Kentucky and opened a law office in Versailles. He was elected to the Kentucky House in 1871, serving two terms. As a Democrat, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1875 until 1885. He was then elected and reelected to the U.S. Senate (March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1907). On April 1, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Blackburn governor of the Panama Canal Zone; he resigned on November 20, 1909. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson appointed him resident commissioner of the Lincoln Memorial. Blackburn was married to Therese Graham in 1858. She died in 1899 and he married Mary E. Blackburn in 1901. He died on September 12, 1918, in Washington, D.C., and was buried at the Frankfort Cemetery. See Leonard Schlup, "Joseph Blackburn of Kentucky and the Panama Question,: FCHQ 51 (Oct. 1977): H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago 1897). NOTE: This is Cheri. The title....The Lawyers & Lawmakers in italicized. Also, in the article that follows on Joseph's brother, Luke Pryor Blackburn, it says Lavinia's maiden name was BELL).