Helen Bowen married William McCormick Blair, a Yale graduate and founder of William Blair & Company investment bankers. She lobbied against smoking. He was a life trustee of The Art Institute. The Blair family lived at 1416 N. Astor in Chicago, Crabtree Farm in Lake Bluff, IL (designed by David Adler, and summered at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Helen and William Blair had four children: Edward McCormick Blair, Helen (who died young in a horse-back riding accident and for whom a chapel at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago is named), William McCormick Blair, Jr. (who served as an Ambassador to Denmark 1961-1964 and was first General Director of the Kennedy Center) and Bowen Blair.
Helen Bowen married William McCormick Blair, a Yale graduate and founder of William Blair & Company investment bankers. She lobbied against smoking. He was a life trustee of The Art Institute. The Blair family lived at 1416 N. Astor in Chicago, Crabtree Farm in Lake Bluff, IL (designed by David Adler, and summered at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Helen and William Blair had four children: Edward McCormick Blair, Helen (who died young in a horse-back riding accident and for whom a chapel at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago is named), William McCormick Blair, Jr. (who served as an Ambassador to Denmark 1961-1964 and was first General Director of the Kennedy Center) and Bowen Blair.
Bio by: Rommy Lopat
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