CLASS OF 1877
Edward Kellogg Blanchard died at his home in Seymour, Mo., April 13, 1921. He had been helpless from paralysis for two years and more previous to his death.
He was born in Orford, N. H., February 16, 1854. He came to Dartmouth from Zumbrota, Minn., having fitted in the high school of that town. He entered the class of 1876 at the beginning of sophomore year, took a special course in preparation for the Thayer School, and transferred to that school at the end of junior year. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
From graduation to the spring of 1883 he was engaged on railroad work, being first assistant engineer on the Minnesota Midland Railroad, and later connected with the Northern Pacific. Then until 1886 he was superintendent of the Rich Hill Water Works Company, Rich Hill, Mo. He then returned to railroad work as resident engineer of the Kansas City and El Dorado Railroad. His next work was the installing of water works at Las Animas, Colo., after which he was division engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad, residing at Wallar, Mo. Next we find him building water works at Corpus Christi, Tex., and Van Buren, Ark. In 1894 he became a member of the engineering firm of Jaeger and Blanchard, with offices at St. Louis and Rich Hill, Mo. Shortly after began a succession of years in railroad work, mostly for the Baltimore and Ohio and Rock Island systems.
In 1904 he first became possessed of a real home, at Seymour, Mo., where he bought a ranch of 640 acres. He did not succeed in remaining there a great part of the time, but was as before employed on railroad work in various parts of the West and South. This is an outline of the toilsome but not unsuccessful or unhappy career of one who was known and esteemed by his many college friends as "Hardboy," on the lucus a non lucendo principle.
June 25, 1884, Mr. Blanchard was married to Carrie Duncan, who survives him, with a daughter and a son. There are also two grandchildren. The son has been associated with his father in the ownership of the ranch above mentioned.
