William B. Blachley, M.D.
William B. Blachley, M.D., was born in New Jersey, from which State he re- moved to Washington County, Pa., where he remained twenty years, when he emigrated to Plain Township in 1816. He was twice married, and was the father of nineteen children. He practiced medicine in Blachleyville nineteen years, when he removed Valparaiso, Indiana, where he died at the age of seventy-four years. He was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of the Baptist church. His son, William Blachley, M.D., was born in Washington County Pa., November 27, 1799, and came to Plain township with his father, with whom he read medicine and began practice. He was married in his twenty- fourth year, to Abigail Wells, a native of New England, and had twelve children, ten of whom are dead--two daughters only remaining. The eldest daughter, Abigail, is married to Dr. Hunt, of Shreve, and the youngest to Captain Benjamin, son of Constant Lake, of Wooster.
From History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, by Robert Douglass, 1878