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WILLIAM BLAKE
Vol. 3, p. 1187

An alert and broad member of his profession and a keen and
farsighted business man, William BLAKE, of the firm of DILLARD &
BLAKE, of Tulsa, possesses in generous measure those qualities which
are necessary in the makeup of the successful corporation lawyer. He
has won success in this difficult department of the law, in which
vigor of professional treatment, fertility of resource, hard fact and
solid logic, are relied upon, and since locating at Tulsa, in 1912,
has been identified with a number of important cases.

Mr. BLAKE was born in Ottawa County, Illinois, February 19, 1866,
and is a son of Harvey and Mary (JEFFERERS) BLAKE. Harvey Blake was
born in Massachusetts, in 1820, and became a pioneer resident of the
farming district of Ottawa County, Illinois, where for many years he
was engaged in agricultural pursuits, later removing to Western
Kansas, where he was associated with the cattle business on the old
open range. He died in 1880, at the age of sixty years. Mr. BLAKE was
a democrat in politics. Mrs. Blake was born in New York State, and
died at the age of fifty years. Of the thirteen children in the
family, William was the twelfth in order of birth and is the only one
now living.

The early education of William Blake was secured in the academy
conducted by his brother, Harvey BLAKE, at St. Johns, Kansas, and
subsequently he pursued a course in the Valparaiso Normal School, now
the Northern University of Indiana. He was twenty-three years of age
when he removed to Kansas, and for three years was engaged in
teaching in the public schools. He began the study of law in the
office of C. T. ATKINSON, at Arkansas City, Kansas, and in 1883 was
admitted to the bar. His professional work was commenced at Arkansas
City, where he remained until 1903, then coming to Cleveland,
Oklahoma, which was his field of practice until 1912, in which year
he came to Tulsa. On March 1st of that year he associated himself
with Francis B. Dillard, under the firm style of Dillard & Blake, and
this concern has since continued, with offices at No. 301 Central
National Bank Building. While the firm has carried on a general
practice, it has specialized in the field of corporation law, a field
in which is demanded not only the possession of unusual ability, but
strenuous, continuous and intense application and industry. Mr. BLAKE
is a republican, but the continually growing duties of his profession
have made it imperative that he give all his attention thereto, to
the exclusion of participation in public affairs, save as a public-
spirited citizen.

In 1903 Mr. BLAKE was united in marriage with Miss Louise
FARNSWORTH, a native of Colorado.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jacque Hopkins Wolski on November 3, 1998.