My Present Past
A genealogical experience
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John Blaine
    Born: July 21, 1825 in Belfast, Ireland
    Died: October 10, 1911 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado
    Father: James Blaine   born: 1790 in Ireland  died: Unknown
    Mother: Jane Blaine     born: 1792 in Ireland (Scotland) died: Unknown

    Married: Malvina Anna Barry  born: September 1827 in Waterville, Oneida County, New York
    died: July 28, 1906 in Cowles, Webster County, Nebraska
    Date of marriage: 1848     Place of marriage: Bureau County, Illinois

    Children:
    1) Ellen             born: July 1850   died: Unknown before 1860

    2) John B          born: April 1857 in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
                             died:  Unknown

    3) Charles C     born: 1858 in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois  
                            died: February 07, 1891 in Cowles, Webster County, Illinois
                            Married: Sarah

    4) William       born: January 02 1861 in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
                       died: May 19, 1923 in Temple, Bell County, Texas
                           Married: Clara Griswold  born: July 29, 1863  died: August 02, 1950
                           Date of marriage: 1886     Place of marriage: Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas

    5) Jennie A    born: January 1872 in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
                           died:  Unknown
                           Married: Thomas E Penman  born: April 1865 in Illinois  died: Unknown
                         Date of marriage: 1890     Place of marriage: Webster County, Nebraska
    Children:
    1) Lea             born: October 4th, 1895 in Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska
                          died:  October 12th, 1962 in Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California
Background:
John Blaine Denver, Colorado 1912
At the home of Thomas, Jennie and Lea Penman
1850 Census Malvina Blaine
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois
In the 1850 Census on the left, Malvina Anna Blaine and
daughter Ellen are living with her sister, Hulda Nichols  
and Hulda's daughter, Clarissa Eunice Nichols.
1860 Census                                             John Blaine
Report of the Adjutant General State of Illinois Page 174
Report of the Adjutant General State of Illinois Page 178
Right:
History of the Illinois 65th Infantry from the
Report of the Adjutant General
of the State of Illinois
Volume II 1861-1866
Pages 179-180
John Blaine accompanied
David T. Nichols to Sacramento, California in April of 1850
to find their fortune in gold.

Their primary mode of transportation to and from California
was by mule or on foot.

The party returned from Sacramento, California to
Wyanet, Illinois on August 13, 1851.
John and Anna Blaine                               Cowles, Nebraska 1886
In the following pages you will read about the
experiences of Captain John Blaine and the
Illinois 65th Infantry during the Civil War.