Henry W. Blachley

HENRY W. BLACHLEY.

For forty-two years Dr. Henry W. Blachley has been a practitioner of dentistry in Centerville and throughout the entire period has kept m touch with the improvements in dental methods made by the representatives of the profession. He was born in Independence, Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1849, a son of Oliver B. and Eleanor J. (Creacraft) Blachley, who were natives of the same county. The father was a capitalist of Independence but in 1872 left the east to become a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1889. His wife had passed away ten years before..

Dr. Blachley spent his boyhood and youth in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pursuing his preliminary education in the public schools of the two states and afterward entering Mount Union College, a Methodist school at Mount Union, Ohio. In 1867, in Fredericktown, Ohio, he took up the study of dentistry under the direction of the firm of Swingley & Bonar, capable dentists of that place, and in 1870 he came to Centerville, where he entered upon active practice in connection with Dr. R. S. Glenn, with whom he remained for a year. The partnership was then dissolved, after which Dr. Blachley practiced alone until his son Carl joined him, having prepared for the profession. Theirs is a well-equipped ofRce, supplied with modern appliances and the most improved instruments, and the work being done by father and son is according to the most advanced scientific methods. Their patronage is extensive and is well merited, Dr. H. W. Blachley having throughout the forty-two years of his residence here conducted a large practice which has brought to him a gratifying financial return.

On the 5th of March, 1873, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Blachley and Miss Lillian E. Wentworth, a daughter of Caleb and Eliza (Baldridge) Wentworth, the former a native of Maine and the latter of Tennessee. The year 1860 witnessed the arrival of the father in Centerville, where he engaged in merchandising, conducting the business imtil 1865. He had previously been justice of the peace, serving in that capacity in all for a quarter of a century. His death occurred in this city

Google in 1877 and his wife passed away in the '60s. The four children of Dr. and Mrs. Blachley are: Owen D., who died in 1875; Olive B., who was born June 21, 1876, and is the wife of Dr. J. R. Pennington, of Chicago, Illinois; Carl W., who was born July 2, 1878; and Tracy W., who was born July 23, 1884, and is a physician and surgeon of Centerville. The d;:ughter, Mrs. Pennington, has been highly educated in music, being a graduate of the Goldbeck Musical College of St. Louis, Missouri, and the Chicago Musical College. The elder son, Carl W., is a graduate of the dental department of Drake University at Des Moines of the class of 1902 and is now actively engaged in practice with his father in the conduct of a business that is constantly growing in extent and importance. He was married June 28, 1905, to Miss Edna Stanton, a daughter of Colonel C. A. and Emma (Houston) Stanton, both of whom are natives of Appanoose county and now residents of California. Her father enlisted from this comity and served throughout the Civil war. He engaged in merchandising here for a number of years and subsequently removed to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he conducted a lumber business for several years. He then retired and, as previously stated, is now located on the Pacific coast.

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As printed in Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa (1913). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.