Virgil Marion Blanding

Business Positions

Pennsylvania Coal Company Scranton, Pennsylvania

• Position ('55→'56)

Positions

Illinois Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons

• Grand Orator ('01)

Everts Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar Rock Island, Illinois

• Eminent Commander (past)

Government Positions

City of Rock Island, Illinois

• Mayor ('88→?)

Family

Anna McNeil

• wife ('63→?)

Noah Blanding A soldier in the War of the Revolution

• great grandfather ('27→?)

Beulah Ann Grenell Pennsylvania Hugunot

• mother ('27→?)

Michael Grenell Soldier in the Revolutionary War, battle of Saratoga

• maternal great-grandfather ('27→?)

Schools

Bucknell University Private liberal arts university, founded in 1846 in Lewisburg Pennsylvania

• MA (?→'55) [+1]

• Bachelor's Degree (?→'52)