Bland, T. A. (Thomas Augustus), 1830-1908

found: Pioneers of progress, 1906:title page (T.A. Bland, Author of Farming as a Profession, Life of Benjamin F. Butler, Esau, How to Get Well and How to Keep Well, In the World Celestial, etc.) page 10-14 (son of Thomas and Sarah Thornton Bland; born May 21, 1830 in Greene County, near Bloomfield, Indiana; Dr. Bland studied medicine after he was married, and on coming from college began practice in the village of Worthington, Indiana; in 1864 he accepted a commission from Governor Morton of Indiana as special surgeon in the army; returning from that work he and his wife established, at Indianapolis, a literary journal, The Home Visitor; at the end of a successful year this was sold and the Northwestern, now Indiana Farmer, was founded; in 1868 they established the Ladies' Own Magazine; in 1870 Dr. Bland published his first book, Farming as a Profession; having sold the Farmer, they removed the magazine to Chicago in 1872 and in 1874 they removed it to New York City where a year later it was sold; in April 1878 the Drs. Bland located in Washington City, where for 18 years the wife had a successful career both as a physician and a lecturer on health related subjects and the husband on occasion assisting as counsel; by this time he was fully occupied with his literary work; Dr. and Mrs. Bland spent 1895-1898 in Boston in professional literary and reformatory work, then removed to Chicago where they now reside)

found: Find A Grave, via WWW, August 11, 2015(Dr. T. A. Bland; born May 21, 1830; died January 3, 1908; Dr. T.A. Bland, a pioneer citizen of Greene County, died at his home in Chicago, January 3, 1908; his body was cremated and the ashes were sent to Washington, D. C. for permanent interment; he was the son of Thomas and Sarah Bland, North Carolina Quakers, who bought a tract of land in the Richland Township in 1820 near the Union Bethel church house, north of Bloomfield; the log house just north of that church was the birthplace of Dr. Bland on May 21, 1830; as a young man he was studious, and from early years he had a hungry mind; he borrowed books from Judge Cavins and Lawyer Rousseau and other early scholars of this place; he married Mary C. Davis, when twenty-two years old; as a physician he practiced medicine in Worthington, and in 1864 accepted a commission for Gov. Morton as a special surgeon in the army; for nearly ten years he and wife were engaged in the publishing business, and in 1878 they located at Washington, D. C. and followed lecturing and literary work; since 1899 he had lived in Chicago, where he was secretary of the American Medical Union)