a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Sanbornton, N. H., June 8, 1819. He experienced religion in 1837; received license to exhort in 1850; and in 1851 entered the New Hampshire Conference. In 1856, because of ill-health, he was compelled to superannuate, and continued in that relation until his sudden death, July 24, 1858. Mr. Blake was a superior man, always cheerful, and eminently honored and successful. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1859, p. 135.