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==Notable people== {{Category see also|People from Blairstown, New Jersey}} People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Blairstown include: * <!--- sorted as "Bao Bean" ---> [[Cathy Bao Bean]] (born 1942), lives in neighboring Frelinghuysen Township, author of ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual''<ref>Staff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106234056/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/democratandchronicle/access/1801633251.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+11,+2004&author=&pub=Rochester+Democrat+and+Chronicle&desc=News+beat&pqatl=google "News beat"], ''[[Rochester Democrat and Chronicle]]'', September 11, 2004. Accessed June 5, 2011. "Bean of Blairstown N.J. is a writer-educator and author of ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual.''"</ref> * [[Bennett Bean]] (born 1941), studio potter, lives in neighboring Frelinghuysen Township<ref>Bischoff, Dan. [http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1207717224242350.xml&coll=1 "Jersey ceramics, from six different angles"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410180728/http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fentertainment-0%2F1207717224242350.xml&coll=1 |date=2008-04-10 }}, ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', April 9, 2008. Accessed May 5, 2008. "The headliner, as he is almost wherever he shows, is Bennett Bean, here displaying seven pit-fired and gilded ceramic compositions that exude the cool, Modernist, syncopated painted patterning for which he is so well known. Bean, of Blairstown, is no doubt the best-known artist in 'Uncommon Clay,' but his aesthetic does not dominate the show."</ref> * [[Robert A. Belet]] (1914β1942), [[United States Marine Corps]] master technical sergeant who was awarded the [[Silver Star]] for his actions in the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]]<ref>[https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/35281 Robert A. Belet ], ''[[Military Times]]'' Hall of Valor. Accessed November 13, 2013.</ref> * [[DeWitt Clinton Blair]] (1833β1915), son of John Insley Blair{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} * [[John Insley Blair]] (1802β1899), entrepreneur, railroad magnate, and Blairstown's most famous citizen. Gravel Hill was renamed Blairstown after Blair in 1839<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080725123355/http://www.blairstown-nj.org/aboutus.htm Blairstown, Past and Present], Township of Blairstown, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of July 25, 2008. Accessed March 23, 2017. "The name of the village was officially changed to Blairstown by a vote of the citizens at a public meeting held Jan. 24, 1939. John I. Blair was only 36 years of age at the time."</ref> * [[Anthony D'Amato]] (born 1987), songwriter and singer<ref>La Gorce, Tammy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/nyregion/23artsnj.html "Aspiring Singer Finds Mentors Behind Ivy League Walls"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 21, 2011. Accessed October 21, 2014. "Starting in 2009, Mr. D'Amato, then a Princeton junior, met with Professor Muldoon every few weeks to pore over drafts of Mr. D'Amato's songs, which he started writing as a high school student at Blair Academy in Blairstown. "</ref> * [[John A. Haggerty]] (1841β1910), Wisconsin legislator and businessman who was born in Blairstown<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1901,' Biographical Sketch of J. A. Haggerty, pg. 744</ref> * [[David T. Little]] (born 1978), composer<ref>Reich, Ronni. [http://blog.nj.com/iamnj/2009/07/david_t_little.html "David T. Little"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', July 9, 2009. Accessed October 21, 2014. "At age 8, Little was fascinated by history. When the Colonial Musketeers drumrolled through New Jersey, he was entranced by their uniforms, replicas of those worn by the Continental Marines of the Revolutionary War. His parents had just separated, and he and his mother, Joanne, left rural Blairstown for 'parade marathons' around the state to raise their spirits, so that Little wound up seeing the Hackettstown-based fife-and-drum corps at least three times in one weekend."</ref> * [[Nancy Overton]] (1926β2009), singer best known for her work with [[The Chordettes]]<ref>Levin, Jay. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s/gcbVxdNZ-FA "Chordette's Nancy Overton Dead at 83"], copy of article from ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', April 7, 2009. Accessed November 13, 2013. "The family moved to Englewood from New York City in 1966 at the urging of a friend, Dizzy Gillespie.... Mrs. Overton moved to Blairstown in 1982, 10 years after her husband died."</ref> * [[Lou Reed]] (1942β2013), musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, lived in neighboring Hardwick Township<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2013/10/lou_reed_iconic_punk_poet_dies.html "Lou Reed, iconic punk poet, dies at 71"], ''[[The Express-Times]]'', October 27, 2013. Accessed January 1, 2018. "Reed lived in Blairstown Township in Warren County from the early 1980s until sometime in the 1990s, although not much is known about his time there because he liked his privacy, according to The Express-Times archives."</ref> * [[Isaac Wildrick]] (1803β1892), represented {{ushr|New Jersey|3}} in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1849 to 1853<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000464 Isaac Wildrick], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed September 1, 2007.</ref>
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