Marcus
Peter Blakemore, born in
Franklin, Indiana in 1889, attended
common and high schools in Anderson,
Indiana. He was graduated from High
School in 1909 and entered the University
of Indiana the following year. After
leaving the University, he organized
the Electric Engineering Company,
which he operated until he enlisted
in World War I.
He later entered the Dental
School of the University of Pittsburgh,
from which he was graduated in 1923.
At the time of his death in October 1959,
he was residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
where he maintained his practice of dentistry.