Emma Helen Blair (September 12, 1851 – September 25, 1911) was a United States historian,

journalist and editor, whose most notable work was a monumental documentary history of the
Philippines.

Biography
Emma Helen Blair was born on September 12, 1851, on Menasha, Wisconsin. Although born in
Wisconsin, she attended high school in Westfield, Massachusetts. In 1871, she returned to
Wisconsin and enrolled in Ripon College, where she graduated in 1874. After graduation she
taught in public school for two years and then moved to Milwaukee, where she worked as a
journalist. In 1892, she began postgraduate work in history, economics and sociology at
Wisconsin State University. She later became a librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

James Alexander Robertson (August 19, 1873 – March 20, 1939) was an American academic
historian, archivist, translator and bibliographer. He is most noted for his contributions to the
history and historiography of the Philippines and other former territorial possessions of the
Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Contents
 1 Life
 2 Notes
 3 References
 4 External links

Life
James Alexander Robertson was born 1873 in Corry, Pennsylvania.[1] He was the sixth of eight
children born to Canadian parents, who became naturalized U.S. citizens after relocating to
Corry in 1866. His father, John McGregor Robertson, was a building contractor originally from
Verulam, Ontario, near Peterborough. His mother, Elizabeth Borrowman Robertson, had
emigrated to Canada from her native Scotland as a child.[2]