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- Batavia NY Daily News - 12/26/1916
Charles Otis Blair, a patrolman in
the Batavia police department, died at
9 o'clock on Sunday morning at his
home, No. 24 Montclair avenue, from
tubercular meningitis. Mr. Blair had
been confined to his bed five weeks.
Mr. Blair was born at Byron pn
June 17. 1870, his parents being Mr.
and Mrs. Ell Blair. On December 25,
1894, he married Miss Olive A. Gardner
at South Byron and had he lived
another day he would have observed
the 22d anniversary of his wedding.
Twenty-two years ago also Mr. and
Mrs. Blair moved to Batavia, and 12
years ago under the first administration
of Mayor Burkhart, as president
of the village, he was sworn in as a
police officer. Under former Mayor
H. M. Johnson he was made a captain
of police, the office being created at
that time.
Mr. Blair was also prominent in the
Are department, where he served as
second assistant chief under Chief William
Locke. He was an honorary member
of the Zephyrs until that company
was disbanded with the passing of the
volunteer department. He was a
member of t h e Batavia Exempt Firemen's
Association and the Modern
Woodmen of''America. He was a
warm-hearted and likeable man who
had hosts of friends and his death will
be sincerely mourned. Besides his
wife he is survived by a son, Harold
Gardner Blair; his mother, Mrs. Lucy
A. Blair; a brother, William B. Blair,
and a sister, Mrs. Pearl V. Warner,
all pf Batavia, and two other brothers,
John J. Blair of Alaska and Morgan
L. Blair of Buffalo.
The funeral will be held at 2:30
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from his
late home, the Rev. S. U. Mock officiating,
and the body will be placed in
the vault a t Elmwood cemetery.
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1870 - 1916 (46 years)