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84 ELIZABETH BLACKWEIX.
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
Society , and gave his aid to other reformatory enterprises which were set on foot at that time in the United States .
This period of prosperity was interrupted by the commercial but crisis he of found 1837- himself 8 ; he was once ab more le to avoid bthe bankruptcy failure of nearl in his y every own person house , y
with which he was connected , deprived of almost all that he , possessed A return . to England was now greatly desired left by his the native elder
lan members d with of the the determination family , but of their accumul father ating , having a certain amount of property for his childrenrefused to accede to their wish until he
should have accomplished , this purpose ; but he promised that , when this should be done , the question of returning to England should be
period put offering majo to rit , the y to . great vote Meantime the , advantages and west decided , of as the no for , sugar in Alleg the a famil refinery hany introduction y- mountains council was in , b of existence y , the and this voice Cincinnati branch , at of that the of
manufactureMr . Blackwell now left New York , and removed with , his familto that city . But the anxiety caused by this second
overthrow of y his affairs , exercised an unfavourable effect on a constitution which—though very robust up to the period of his leaving England
—had been already impaired by the unhealthy conditions of the American climate . The summer of 1838 was unusually hot ; and
rendered the change , from the comparatively bracing air of the coast to the stifling inland atmosphere of Ohio , doubly trying to
English constitutions . Soon after his arrival in Cincinnati , and while engaged in the establishment of a sugar refinery with the aid
of the resources still at his command , he was attacked by fever , and diedafter a few days' illnessin the forty-sixth year of his age , and
within , six years of his leaving , England . Possessed of great and varied information , a student , poet , and philanthropist in the midst
of almost incessant occupation , most upright , generous , and kind in all the relations of lifehis memory will ever live in the affectionate
, veneration of those who knew him . The family thus plunged in the deepest affliction , in a foreign
land , and in a city where they had just arrived as strangers , were now utterly penniless ; for all the available means that had remained
to their father after the closing of his establishment in New York , had been employed by him in making arrangements for establishing a sugar
refinery in this new locality ; and although various amounts , some of them largewere still due to his estate from several business firms ,
none of these , could ever be recovered , many of the parties by whom they were due becoming bankrupt , and others declining to discharge
obligations which the confusion consequent on so sudden a death , and the inexperience of the claimantsenabled them to elude . An
, important commercial house on which their father had a large claim ,
and on which he had drawn orders which had been employed by
84 Elizabeth Blackweix.
84 _ELIZABETH BLACKWEIX .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/12/
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