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BLAKE, Vachel Weldon<\/strong>, teacher; born Cuero, Tex., April 27, 1881; English descent; son of Daniel Bigelow and Mary (Weldon) BLAKE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents Joshua and Frances Jemima (Bigelow) BLAKE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Vachel and Sophia (Dodge) WELDON<\/strong>; primary and preparatory education at Cuero, Tex., public and private schools, and collegiate at Vanderbilt University; graduated from latter with B.A. degree, 1909; M.A., 1910; in early life was in the wholesale hardware business as receiving clerk for the Goyer Company, Greenville, Miss., 1904-05; Monumental Draughtsman for Foster & Herbert Cut Stone Company, Nashville, Tenn., May to September, 1905; partner and Business Manager Blake Bros. & Flick, Sheet Music, wholesale retail and publishing, Nashville, Tenn., 1905-06; married Cecil BAILEY<\/strong>, April 7, 1907; Past Chancellor Knights of Pythias; Democrat; served in State Militia of Tennessee and Mississippi; member of M.E. Church, South; January, 1907, to October, 1907, was receiving clerk to floor salesman, Knight & Wall Company, wholesale and retail hardware, Tampa, Fla.; address 2012 West End avenue, Nashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Nashville BLAKE, Vachel Weldon, teacher; born Cuero, Tex., April 27, 1881; English descent; son of Daniel Bigelow and Mary (Weldon) BLAKE; father\u2019s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents Joshua and Frances Jemima (Bigelow) BLAKE, maternal grandparents Vachel and Sophia (Dodge) WELDON; primary and preparatory education at Cuero, Tex., public and private schools, and collegiate at Vanderbilt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,4405,7,4419],"tags":[1043,3201,3200,3202,2737],"class_list":{"0":"post-8658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bailey","11":"tag-bigelow","12":"tag-blake","13":"tag-dodge","14":"tag-weldon","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}