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John Insley Blair //__ Birth/death Date __//- August 22, 1802/December 2, 1899 =Captain Of Industry or Robber Baron= ====John Insley Blair was a Captain of Industry because he helped his town and in return they named the town Blairstown. He managed his multi-million dollar businesses from Blairstown. He owned a private rail car were he sometimes managed his businesses. He was president of 16 railroad companies which helped in his estimated $70 million fortune. Blair was the largest owner of railroad mileage in the world. And he founded 100 churches in proximity to his railroad.==== = =
 * //__ Where they live __//** - Blairstown, New Jersey

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Childhood=  He is directly descended from John Blair, who came to this country from Scotland in 1720. The education received by Blair was limited to only a few months of schooling in the winter, and had to leave when he reached the age of eleven. About 1813 he entered the store of a relative in Hope, New Jersey, for the purpose of learning business, and remained so occupied until 1821, when he settled in Blairstown, New Jersey Here, with his relative, John Blair, he established a general country store, but two years later the partnership was dissolved, and the" business continued independently by John 1. ======