John C. Blackman (1824-1912) was born in New York and died in Fremont, Nebraska. He worked as a railroad clerk and served in the Civil War as a 1st Lieutenant. His daughter, C. Lulu Blackman, joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1894 and was listed as a practitioner and teacher in the directory of The Christian Science Journal.

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