Roberta Watterson YERKES

Father: Robert Mearns YERKES
Mother: Ada WATTERSON

Family 1: Brand BLANSHARD
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                                                   |_Caroline HARPER _________|_Lorain MINOR ___
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Brand Blanshard Brand Blanshard (1892 /1987.html>) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defens e of reason>. A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and g race in philosophical controversies and exemplified the "rational temper" he advocated. Life Born in Fredericksburg, Ohio , on 27 August, 1892, Percy Brand Blanshard (his full name) wa s one of a pair of fraternal twins (the other being freethinker Paul Beecher Blanshard). The ir mother, Emily Coulter Blanshard, died of severe burns (from an accident with a kerosene la mp) in 1893. Their father, Francis Blanshard, moved the family first to Grand Rapids, Michiga n , then to Edinburg, Ohio, in 1899. Francis suffered from consumption and was advised to see k a drier climate by moving west; he did so in 1902 to serve as a pastor in Helena, Montan a , and then moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico , where he died in 1904. Following his death th e brothers remained in the care of their grandmother, Orminda Adams Blanshard. Eventually th e family moved to Bay View, Michigan, and then to Detroit . Blanshard studied at the University of Michigan and then at Oxford University (the latter a s a Rhodes scholar ). He taught at Swarthmore College from 1925 until 1944 and then spent th e remainder of his career at Yale University , where he served as chairman of the departmen t of philosophy for many years. Blanshard was married twice. In 1918 he married Frances Bradshaw, to whom he remained happil y wedded until her death forty-eight years later in 1966. After her death, which came as a gr eat blow to him, he finished and edited her book Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore, bringing it t o publication in 1970. In 1969, after two and a half years of what he later described as "lon eliness, failing health, and failing motives", he married Roberta Yerkes (the daughter of Bla nshard's colleague Robert M. Yerkes , who was his wife until his own death in 1987. __________________________________________ Connecticut online death index: ROBERTA Y BLANSHARD 09 October 2001 Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut 94 Years White Female Wid owed



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