Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D. (Commander, USN)
NASA Astronaut, Mission Specialist
Mission specialist Laurel Blair Salton Clark,
41, a U.S. Navy commander, was onboard Columbia for her first space
flight. Clark was a medical school graduate and trained in the Navy as
an undersea medical officer and subsequently as a naval flight surgeon
before joining NASA in 1996.
Clark was married with an 8-year-old son. Her home is
in Racine, Wis.
Laurel Blair Salton Clark descends from William
Blair.
William Blair came from Paisley, Scotland to America
ca. 1800 and settled on Scotch Mountain in Delaware Co, NY. He had a
son, Ebenezer Blair (b. 1809), who lived at Delhi, Delaware Co,
NY.
Ebenezer married Clarissa Ann Jones (b. 1815 in NJ).
Their daughter, Hannah Morris Blair (b. 12 October 1850 at Delhi, NY, d.
24 January 1927 at Lincoln Park, NJ), married Aaron Brant Haviland , Sr
(b. 1836 at Elizabeth, NJ, d. 8 June 1910 at Elizabeth, NJ).
Their son, Aaron Brant Haviland Jr (b. 16 May 1875 at
Elizabeth, NJ, d. 1954), married Emma C. Hohenesee (b. 1879 at
Elizabeth, NJ, d. April 1953 at Hillside, NJ), who was the daughter of
Emma and Frederich Hohensee.
Their son, Robert Blair Haviland (b. 2 April 1903 at
Hillside, NJ, d. 25 July 1984 at Ames, Story Co, IA) married Mary
Christina Doig (b. 11 November 1906 in Bovina, NY).
Their daugther, Marjory Blair Haviland (b. 22 May 1934 in Delhi, NY)
m. Robert Salton.
Their daughter was Laurel Blair Salton Clark (d. 1 February
2003).
The above genealogical sketch was put
together by the BSGR Genealogist, Charlotte Blair Stewart, and the BSGR
Computer Committee Chairwoman, Morgan Blair Rajcevich. They used four primary
sources of reference to establish this Blair line. The first was from
the BSGR Genealogy database which contained information on the Blairs
from Delaware Co, NY. Then the connection to Haviland and Salton was
from The
Baldwin Family and Doig
Family Histories websites. The connection to
Dr. Clark was from NASA profiles. It is interesting to note that both
Dr. Clark's mother and grandfather carried Blair as their middle names.
Blair remains a Family to be proud of. I am sorry that we had to learn
of Dr. Clark so tragically. |
