Jonathan Blanchard

1811 - 1892  (81 years)

• Name	Jonathan Blanchard
  Born	19 Jan 1811	Rockingham, , VT
  Gender	Male
  Died	14 May 1892	Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, USA
  Person ID	I88	B03 Thomas Hore, b1649, Chilham, Kent, England
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Blanchard,   b. 20 Feb 1769, Billerica,,MA ,   d. 30 Jun 1835, Rockingham,,VT,age 66 yrs  (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary "Polly" Lovell,   b. 14 Aug 1777, Rockingham,,VT ,   d. 26 Feb 1835, Rockingham,,VT,age 52 yrs  (Age 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	07 Dec 1797	Rockingham,VT First Church
  Notes	Jonathan Blanchard married Mary "Polly" Lovell in First Church, Rockingham, Windham Co., VT.
  Family ID	F107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Avery Bent,   b. 07 Jan 1819, Middlebury,, VT ,   d. 11 Jan 1890, East Las Vegas,, NM  (Age 71 years)
  Married	19 Sep 1838	Middlebury, VT
  Children	1. Maria Elizabeth Blanchard,   b. 30 Oct 1846, Galesburg,, IL ,   d. 05 Mar 1915, Wheaton,, IL  (Age 68 years)  [natural]   2. Living   3. Living   4. Living
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018
  Family ID	F106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Biographies of Jonathan Blanchard: "Fire on the Prairie" and "Minority of One" by Clyde S. Kilby; and, "Four Hazardous Journeys of the Reverend Jonathan Blanchard, founder of Wheaton College", by Raymond P. Fischer, published Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, IL, 1987. Source: History of Rockingham, VT, 1907-1957 withe family genealogies, by Mrs. Frances Stockwell Lovell and Mr. Leverett C. Lovell, pub. 1958, page 336: Residents of Rockingham of the past century who have achieved an unusual amount of success: 1811 - Jonathan Blanchard - president of Knox and Wheaton Colleges, founder of the Christian Era, author, famous abolitionist. Source: Vermonth Historical Magazine, Vol. 1, page 1010 - Guildhall, VT: Ecclesiastical- Rev. James Tisdale ...was settled as pastor over Guildhall and Granby churches Sept. 29, 1830. He was dismissed May 5, 1836. And the following summer, Rev. Jonathan Blanchard, then, if we remember rightly, a student of Andover Theological Seminary, and latterly president of Knox College, Illinois, supplied our pulpit for a few weeks.