Elizabeth Blair Lee
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Elizabeth Blair Lee was an American woman who lived through the American Civil War and wrote hundreds of letters describing the events of the times to her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee. She played a pi
Elizabeth Blair Lee, portrait by Thomas Sully, when she was 19
Washington City Orphan Asylum, 1860, Library of Congress
Eliza Violet Blair
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Eliza Violet Blair was an American journalist and political hostess who developed a network of political figures which provided contacts for newspaper articles and editorials and to help build her hus
Elizabeth Blair Lee
…Asylum where she was a manager and director for decades. Elizabeth Lee was born on June 20, 1818, in Frankfort, Kentucky, to Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet Gist Blair. She was the sister of Montgomery Blair, James L. Blair, and Francis Preston Blair Jr. The family moved from Kentucky to Washington, D.C. in 1830. Her…
Francis Preston Blair seated and his wife standing alongside, full length portrait