Caledonia

BLANCHARD, John C.

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 367

[Extracted from a section dealing with the history of Peacham.] John C. 
BLANCHARD was born in 1787 in Peacham [Caledonia County, Vermont], and 
graduated at Dartmouth in 1812. After graduating he taught in York [York 
County], Pennsylvania, two years, reading law at the same time. He then went 
into practice at Bellefont [Centre County], Pennsylvania. Was elected to 
congress in 1844, and took his seat in 1845. He [John C. BLANCHARD] died in 
1849 at Lancaster [Lancaster County], Pennsylvania, on his way home from 
Washington [D. C.].

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