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==Legacy==
==Legacy==
Blair put his entomological skills to use with his Blair Laboratories pesticide business, which he operated for many years in Alexandria. Daughter Rebecca Tisdale said that her father was too independent to work for others; so he chose self-employment in farming and pesticides. She said that her father struggled as a youth and was dismissed as "white trash" because of his poverty. Such obstacles made him exceptionally determined to succeed: he was the kind of man who could not easily accept rejection. His life story fits the [[Horatio Alger]] mode<ref name=statement>Statement of Rebecca Blair Tisdale of Alexandria.</ref>
Blair put his entomological skills to use with his Blair Laboratories pesticide business, which he operated for many years in Alexandria. Daughter Rebecca Tisdale said that her father was too independent to work for others; so he chose self-employment in farming and pesticides. She said that her father struggled as a youth and was dismissed as "white trash" because of his poverty. Such obstacles made him exceptionally determined to succeed: he was the kind of man who could not easily accept rejection. His life story fits the [[Horatio Alger]] mode<ref name=statement>Statement of Rebecca Blair Tisdale of Alexandria.</ref>
Blair was active in community affairs, having been a former president of the AlexandriaPineville [[Chamber of Commerce]] and Kiwanis International. In the late 1950s, while he was returning from church with his family when the Blairs resided in the Paradise community, he once saved from [[drowning]] two young men that he saw floundering in the Red River from an overturned boat.<ref name=statement/>
Blair was active in community affairs, having been a former president of the AlexandriaPineville [[Chamber of Commerce]] and Kiwanis International. In the late 1950s, while he was returning from church with his family when the Blairs resided in the Paradise community, he once saved from [[drowning]] two young men that he saw floundering in the Red River from an overturned boat.<ref name=statement/>