a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Madison County, Ky., Sept. 12, 1807. He emigrated to Illinois in 1829, experienced conversion in 1830, received license to preach in 1841, and in the same year entered the Illinois Conference, in which he labored diligently until he died, July 16, 1849. Mr. Blackwell was an excellent, zealous, faithful minister, modest, religious, and well received. See Minutes of Annual Conf., 1849, p. 393.