BLAND, THOMAS AUGUSTUS: 1830-?
Thomas Augustus Bland , son of Thomas Bland, was born in Bloomfield, Ind., on May 21, 1830. His father came to Indiana in 1817 and farmed until 1850, when he moved to Illinois. Young Thomas was educated in the county schools and studied medicine at the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati. In 1852 he married Mary Cornelia Davis.
During the Civil War he served as a surgeon in the Union Army, in 1864 became editor of the HOME VISITOR, a literary weekly published at Indianapolis, and in 1865 established the NORTHWESTERN FARMER. He sold the latter paper in 1871 and moved to Chicago, where he became editor of the SCIENTIFIC FARMER. Two years later he moved the magazine to New York . In 1878 he located in Washington, D. C. His wife assisted him in editing the magazines and herself established and edited the LADIES OWN MAGAZINE.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I.
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1870.
- History of New England (joint author).
Boston, 1875.
- The Spartan Band. Washington, D.
C., 1879.
- Life of General B. F. Butler.
Boston, 1879.
- How to Grow Rich. Washington, D.
C., 1881.
- The Reign of Monopoly. Washington, D.
C., 1881.
- Life of Alfred B. Meacham. Washington, D.
C., 1883.
- People's Party Shot and Shell.
Chicago, 1892.
- Esau; or, The Banker's Victim.
Washington, D. C., 1892.
- How to Get Well and How to Keep Well.
Boston, 1894.
- "In the World Celestial."
New York, 1901.
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- The Great Thinkers.
- American Medical Union, a History of Its Origin, Principles,
Purposes and Progress. Chicago, 1902.
- Pioneers of Progress. Chicago,
1906.
