{"id":794,"date":"2013-04-24T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=794"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:22:23","slug":"blandin-isabel-margaret-elizabeth-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"BLANDIN, ISABELLA MARGARET ELIZABETH JOHN, 1838 -1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, social worker. Born&#8211; April \u00a030, 1838, Autauga County, Alabama. Parents&#8211; Joseph Reid John\u00a0and Rosanna Jane (Smith) John. Lived at Uniontown, Montgomery and Selma. Married&#8211; John Wirt Blandin. Children&#8211; Three. Taught in Selma and Montgomery, and in Houston, Tex. Organized Houston&#8217;s first mission board and was its president for several years; helped establish free kindergartens, day nurseries and Sunday schools. Died June 30, 1912.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical Directory of Southern Authors and files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Gonzales to San Jacinto; a Historical Drama of the Texan Revolution. Houston, Texas; Dealy &amp; Baker, 1897.<\/p>\n<p>History of Higher Education of Women in the South Prior to 1860. New York; Neale Pub. Co., 1909.<\/p>\n<p>History of Shearn Church, 1837-1907. Houston, Tex.; J. V. Dealy Co., 1908.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, social worker. Born&#8211; April \u00a030, 1838, Autauga County, Alabama. Parents&#8211; Joseph Reid John\u00a0and Rosanna Jane (Smith) John. Lived at Uniontown, Montgomery and Selma. Married&#8211; John Wirt Blandin. Children&#8211; Three. Taught in Selma and Montgomery, and in Houston, Tex. Organized Houston&#8217;s first mission board and was its president for several years; helped establish free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}