Lillie devereux blake biography

​BLAKE, Mrs. Lillie Devereux, woman suffragist and reformer, born in Raleigh, N. C., 12th August, 1835. Her father was George Pollok Devereux, and her mother was Sarah Elizabeth Johnson.

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Mr. Devereux was a wealthy southern eentleman, of Irish descent on his father's side. His mother, Frances Pollok, was a descendant of Sir Thomas ​Pollok, one of the early governors of North Carolina under the Lords Proprietaries. Mrs. Devereux was the daughter of Judge Samuel William Johnson, of Stratford, Conn., and a granddaughter of the Hon.

William Samuel Johnson, member of the Stamp Act Congress, of the Fourth and Fifth Continental Congresses and of the Federal Convention, Senator from Connecticut, and president of Columbia Col- lege, his father, the Rev. Samuel Johnson, D. D., having been the founder and first president of that university, when it was called King's College.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Devereux were descended from the Rev. J Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased - Women's ... CIJY