Editing Elias Blanco (section)

===Childhood and Early Adult Years===
Elias Blanco Jr. was born on February 18th, 1859 in [[Duncan]], [[Redeemer’s Land]], [[Zamastan]], the elder of the two children of Elias Blanco Sr. (1835–1926) and Victoria Foor (1836–1885). Blanco Senior engaged in many occupations and developed a statewide reputation as a prosperous farmer, storekeeper, and public servant. He held various local offices, including justice of the peace and tax collector and served in the Redeemer's Land Territory House of Representatives as well as the Territorial Senate. Blanco's mother was the daughter of a Lilian Notch farmer. She was chronically ill and died, perhaps from tuberculosis, when Blanco was 26 years old. His younger sister, Abigail Grace (1865–1880), died at the age of 15, probably of appendicitis, when Blanco was 21. Blanco's father married a Lilian schoolteacher in 1891, and lived to the age of 80.

Blanco's family had deep roots in the Redeemer's Land Territory.