Lily Ann Blair (1876 - 1949)

Lily's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Blair family tree.

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Lily's Parents

Blair Robert Henry Blair

Helen Younger Tait Blair

Lily Ann Blair

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Blair Robert Henry Blair

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Helen Younger Tait Blair

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Lily's Parents

Robert Blair

Helen Young (Tait) Blair

Lily Ann Blair

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Robert Blair

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Helen Young (Tait) Blair

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We currently do not have photos of Lily Ann Blair. Below are potential family photos that share Lily's last name or surname. Pictures really do say a thousand words. Add photos of Lily during various points of her life

Loyd Baxter Blair Jr

Loyd Baxter (Blair) Jr

Thomas Edward Blair

Mary Anne (Blair) Buster

Mary Anne Elizabeth (Blair) Buster

Clarendon Petty

Julie and Diane Kampe

Terre Blair and Marvin Hamlisch

Rick Blair

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BLAIR - CROSS Family

BLAIR - LLOYD Family

BLAIR - LLOYD woman

Robert Wayne Self

Prime Minister Tony Blair & Tommy Ontko

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In 1876, in the year that Lily Ann Blair was born, on August 1st, Colorado became the 38th U.S. state. Its nickname is the "Centennial State" because it was admitted just 28 days after the United States' centennial.

In 1884, she was only 8 years old when on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.

In 1909, by the time she was 33 years old, the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.

In 1913, at the age of 37 years old, Lily was alive when the Philippine–American War ended for good in June. While the official end of the war was in 1902, fighting continued for several years. An estimated 200,000 to 250,000 total Filipino civilians died and although the U.S. viewed its role as a colonial presence as one of preparing the Philippines for independence, American colonization drastically changed the character off the culture. The Catholic Church was no longer the state religion and English became the primary language of the government.

In 1949, in the year of Lily Ann Blair's passing, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."