BLAIR, Chauncey Justus. Chicago 3.12.1913 — Chapel Hill, N.C. 1999. U.S. Indologist. Son of Chauncey Buckley Blair and Mildred Mitchell Marshall (or Paulette M. Picard?). Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. In 1959 living in West Hyattsville, Maryland, in 1981 in Bowie, Maryland, and in 1986 in Franconia, N.B. Married 1953 Emma Jarvis Daggett (1913–1984). One unclear (undated) net account states that Dr. Chauncey J. Blair died 7.12., perhaps in 2000 (1999 is from the photo of his gravestone).
Publications: Diss. publ. as Heat in the Rig Veda and Atharva Veda. 16+190 p. A.O.S. 5. New Haven 1961.
Sources: Member lists of the A.O.S. in JAOS; not in the Dir. Am. Sch. 8th edition; life years in myheritage.com (mother P.M.P.); parents, wife and gravestone in findagrave.com (mother M.M.M.).
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