Algood Genealogy

464. James Know Polk⁵ Blackketter (Wesley M⁴, Elizabeth (Betsy)³ Allgood, Ishmael², Edward¹) was born in Columbus, Bartholomew Co., IN Octoer 9, 1845. James died May 16, 1919 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN.

He married Samantha Alice Doyle April 9, 1869 in Waconia, Carver Co., MN. Samantha was born October 1849 in Canton, Stark Co., OH. Samantha was the daughter of John Doyle and Lucinda Nogle. Samantha died October 2, 1918 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN. The following biographies are from "Compendium of History and Biography of Carver and Hennepin Counties, Minnesota". Edited by Maj. R.J. Holcombe and William H. Bingham. Published in Chicago by Henry Taylor & Company, 1915.: Page 272

James K. Blackketter

James K. Blackketter, of Minneapolis, is a retired business man of that city and for a number of years was a farmer in Carver county. He was born near Columbus, Indiana, October 9, 1845, son of Wesley and Spicy (Harris) Blackketter, the latter a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and a descendant of the old Virginia family of Harris. Wesley Blackketter was born in Fairfax county, West Virginia, and was reared in Kentucky. In 1818, soon after his marriage at Perrvville, Kentucky, the home of the Harris family, he went to Indiana and located on land near Columbus, in what was then wild and uncultivated country. He cleared his land of its heavy timber and spent forty-six years on this farm, and here his family were born and reared. In 1865, past the prime of life, but still possessed of the hearty spirit of the pioneer, he left his Indiana home and came farther west to Forest City, Meeker county, Minnesota, and in the fall of the same year removed to Carver county, where he bought the northeast quarter of section 1, in Hollywood township, with the purchase price of a little less than $9 an acre. This was the largest farm in the township, with good log buildings and about twenty acres of cleared land. Mr. Blackketter again engaged in the laborious task of developing new land, and in a few years had seventy acres under cultivation. He selected a pleasant elevation and there erected a comfortable house of hewed logs, a very fine home, judged by the standards of those days, and a new barn, making one of the most attractive farm homes in the neighborhood. During the six years of his residence in Carver county he acquired large land interests in both Carver and Wright counties, owning nineteen hundred acres at the time of his death. He was a Democrat and was always actively identified with activities of that party. In religious belief he was a zealous member of the Christian or Campbellite church. Having been a generous donor to the building fund of the schoolhouse two miles east of Watertown, he was allowed the use of it for church purposes, and through his efforts meetings were held here for several years, Elder Gale of Minneapolis being one of the ministers who officiated. But there was no permanent organization effected, and after the death of Mr. Blackketter the meetings ceased. His death occurred May 31, 1871, and his wife died four years later. They had ten children: William, who died in Watertown; Spencer, a farmer in Carver county for several years, who died at Weston, Missouri; Elizabeth, the wife of Daniel Babb of Wilmost, South Dakota; Lucinda, who married Thomas Wiggs and died at Lester Prairie, Minnesota; Spicy, the wife of Herod Bradford, whose death occurred in Indiana; Wesley, who died at Howard lake, Minnesota; John, living at Watertown at the time of his death; Thomas J., deceased; Mary P., who was the wife of Thomas Barrett and died at Havre, Montana, and James K. of Minneapolis. Mack Blackketter, the son of Spencer, is a farmer in Watertown township and the sons of William, Ollie and James live on the old Blackketter homestead in Hollywood. Will Bradford, son of Spicy (Blackketter) Bradford, is a resident of Minneapolis. James K. Blackketter was twenty years of age when he came with his father to Carver county, of which he was a resident for fifteen years, prominently identified with all matters that tended toward the welfare and progress of the community and serving in several public offices. His marriage to Samantha A. Doyl, who was born at Canton, Ohio, and thou living in McLeod county, occurred at Waconia, April 9, 1869. Her parents, John and Lucinda Doyl, had come to McLeod county in 1864 from Indiana, locating in Victor township. After his marriage Mr. Blackketter was given a farm of eighty acres by his father. This land was but a short distance from the Blackketter farm, where he continued to make his home until the death of his father in 1871. A part of the old homestead was then added to his eighty acres as his share of the paternal estate, and for the next few years he was busily occupied in the management of his farming interests. In 1880 he removed to Minneapolis, where he now lives in his home at 1943 North Oliver street, the oldest resident of this section of North Minneapolis, which but ten years ago was practically unpopulated. During a long period of business activity he operated a prosperous trade as well contractor, covering a large territory, Which included Hennepin, Wright, Carver, Scott and Meeker, with other counties. For several years he also engaged in the feed business in Minneapolis. In 1913 he retired after thirty-three years of. creditable achievement in the business world. He has always taken the keenest interest in the growth and progress of his home city, and as a member of the Democratic party is actively identified with local political matters. He joined the Masonic lodge in Watertown township, October 16, 1866, and there has continued his membership and is now its oldest living member. A family of thirteen sons were born to Mr. Blackketter and his wife, seven of whom survive and reside in Minneapolis near the home of their parents. Charles P. and Ernest A. Blackketter are engaged in the decorating business, the former at 1001 Nicollet avenue and the latter as foreman with Colson & Co. John A. Blackketter is a resident of Minnesota and Carl E. is in the saloon business. The other three sons, Plainy M., William T. and James H., are employed as painters and decorators

James Know Polk Blackketter and Samantha Alice Doyle had the following children:

+ 2072 i. Charles P.⁶ Blacketter was born September 1869.

2073 ii. Plainy (Plyne) M Blackketter was born in MN 1870. Plainy died March 15, 1927 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN. He married an unknown person.

+ 2074 iii. Ernest Archie Blackketter was born 1873.

2075 iv. John Alfred Blacketter was born in Carver Co., MN Jjuly 6, 1876. John died August 23, 1951 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN. He married Margaret S Walborn 1915. Margaret was born December 23,1888. Margaret was the daughter of Frank Walborn and Olivia Hasen. Margaret died July 8,1980 in Hennepin Co., MN.

+ 2076 v. Plyne M. Blacketter was born 1877.

2077 vi. William Tony Blackketter was born 1881. William died January 8, 1917 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN.

+ 2078 vii. James H. Blacketter was born 1884.

2079 viii. Carl Edwin. Blackketter was born in MN September 16, 1886. Carl died July 21, 1945 in MN. Carl was buried in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN He married Glayds S. (___).

Glayds was born July 5, 1911. Glayds died October 11, 1945 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN. Glayds was buried in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN

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