I was fairly young when my grandfather died (9 years old) and I don't remember much about him. Finding these tibits of information helps me to know him much better. After finding the articles, I emailed them to my dad, who told me, that my grandfather not only won boxing matches, but won the golden gloves for his weight. I also learned that he was only about 5'7". Isn't genealogy great?
As I've been searching my Blickhahn line, I did a search on GenealogyBank.com. Three of the articles I found were about my grandfather, Henry Adam Blickhahn I. He was a boxer in the Army (which I remembered being told years ago), but I remembered being told that he was a featherweight boxer. What I found out in these articles was he was a bantamweight boxer and his weigh-in showed him at 118 lbs. In the first article, he won his bout, the second he won by default. The third article was for the championship bouts. He was the bantamweight champion.
I was fairly young when my grandfather died (9 years old) and I don't remember much about him. Finding these tibits of information helps me to know him much better. After finding the articles, I emailed them to my dad, who told me, that my grandfather not only won boxing matches, but won the golden gloves for his weight. I also learned that he was only about 5'7". Isn't genealogy great?
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