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John Blair, an American a: born in Richmond, Vt., about 1858; was graduated at Eugene College in 1878 and at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1882. In 1898 he decided to enter the navy, and was made a istant surgeon on the monitor “Miantonomoh,” but a little later was a igned to the “‘Panther,” which landed 600 marines at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On June 12, after the landing, when the Spaniards made an attack on the Americans he was one of the four men killed in the action.