Julius Clarke Blaisdell

Born in Vermont in 1803, Julius Caesar Blasdell was the third son of Ezra Blasdell and Lydia Ramsdell. On 7 January 1839, he married Margaret, the widow of John Fleming, in Montreal, with the Rev. Dr. Black officiating. In 1849, Julius C. established a steam saw mill in Bytown (http://www.ottawagraphy.ca/bayfpeople/blasdell-julius-c)

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"New Chelsea" he said "dates from about 1849. In that year Julius Blaisdell, an American, started a small mill at the fall of the Chelsea rapids. He ran it until about 1853 when Colonel Allan Gilmour got hold of it and greatly enlarged it. When the mills were at their best, the Gilmours, between their mills, the booms at Cascades, and the piling grounds at Ironside, employed over three hundred men.

Julius Clark Blasdell (1803-1888), came from Shoreham, Vermont in the late 1820's at the invitation of Philemon Wright, also a New Englander, who had discovered the great lumber potential of the Ottawa valley. The Blasdell family had lived in New England for a considerable period already at the time of Julius Clark’s birth. According to family tradition, the Blasdell's came originally from Scotland by way of Holland, which suggests some kind of heterodox religious opinions, since in the seventeenth and eighteenth century dissenters fled to Holland. Julius Clark Blasdell made a great deal of money in the lumber business, and built a mansion in Rockliffe, now the residence of the American ambassador. In July, 1839, he married Margaret Blythe (1810-1850) a young widow from Montreal, and Helen Elizabeth was born in November.