David Rull N. Blackburn

David Rull N. Blackburn (born August 29, 1845 in New Market , Tennessee , † October 23, 1903 in Albany , Oregon ) was an American officer , lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

David Rull N. Blackburn was born in 1845 during the economic crisis of 1837 . His childhood was overshadowed by the Mexican-American War . Nothing is known about his youth.

During the Civil War he left his home state, which was on the side of the Confederate States of America , and enlisted in Kentucky in the Union Army . On April 26, 1862, he was near Woodson Gap in the Cumberland Mountains by the Confederate cavalry under Colonel Turner Ashby captured and in the prison camp in Madison ( Georgia sent). He returned home after his release. On July 20, he enlisted as a private in Company C in the 9th Tennessee Cavalry. He was then promoted to first lieutenant and on October 27, 1863 appointed adjutant of his regiment . In November 1863 he took part in the siege of Knoxville (Tennessee). Then he marched with his regiment in December 1863 to Camp Nelson, Kentucky with many Confederate prisoners. In April 1864 he resigned from the army and returned home. He was captured again and sent to a detention center. When he was transferred from one prison camp to another, however, he managed to escape. Blackburn spent the following month in the mountains trying to get home and not be captured again. On his escape he finally came across the 2nd North Carolina Union Regiment under the command of Colonel George Washington Kirk . He returned to Knoxville. During the time he was hiding in the mountains, the weather conditions were extremely poor. He suffered from hunger and cold.

After the end of the war he married on July 18, 1866 in Tennessee Miss Francis A. Foust (1847-1922), daughter of Eliza Sawyers and Captain Wiley C. Foust. The couple had at least two children: Archie William and James. Blackburn studied law . He was admitted to the bar in Tennessee in 1867. He moved to Oregon with his wife in 1874. They settled there in Eugene ( Lane County down). From there they moved first to Brownsville and then to Albany. Both towns are in Linn County . After arriving in Oregon, he was admitted to the bar and subsequently practiced as a lawyer. In 1888 he was elected magistrate in Linn County. In the 1898 election he was elected Attorney General of Oregon. He held the post from January 9, 1899 to January 12, 1903. After his death in Albany in 1903, he was buried there in Riverside Cemetery .

literature

• Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Oregon to the ... Legislative Assembly ... for the Period ... , Secretary of State, 1901, p. 235
• Oregon and the Orient , AD Bowen, 1901, p. 156

Web links

• David Rull N. Blackburn on the steveclapp.com website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} D.RN Blackburn in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved October 14, 2015.
2. ^ Attorneys General of Oregon , Oregon Blue Book