Comprehensive post graduate study abroad has splendidly qualified Dr. Eugene Maurice Blake for the active practice of medicine and surgery. He is now specializing in treatment of diseases of the eye and has gained more than local distinction in this connection.

He was born in Bridgeport. Connecticut, December 31, 1882, and is a son of Frederick E. Blake, a native of New Haven, representing one of the old families of the state, of English lineage. The founder of the American branch of the family was Reuben Blake, who came to the new world about 1725. Among the ancestors of Dr. Blake were those who participated in the Revolutionary war including this Reuben Blake, who enlisted from Danbury and served as a private. Frederick E. Blake became a successful dry goods merchant of Bridgeport. He was a son of another Reuben Blake, also a native of New Haven, who served as a soldier of the Civil war with a Connecticut regiment and was wounded and taken prisoner, after which he was confined in Libby prison until exchanged. He then reentered the service and continued to give active aid to the government until at last victory crowned the Union arms. The mother of Dr. Black, Mrs. Corabel (Cottrell) Blake, was a native of Sharon, Connecticut, and a daughter of George Wesley and Julia (Rowley) Cottrell. The Cottrells came from New York and were of French descent, the family being established in Connecticut at an early period. Mrs. Blake is still living.

Dr. Blake was an only child and was reared and educated in Bridgeport and in Worcester, Massachusetts, afterward entering Yale in 1902. He there pursued the full course in medicine and was graduated in 1906 with the M. D. degree. Afterward he was interne at Hartford Hospital, where he remained for seven months, and then entered practice with Dr. A. N. Alling, of New Haven, with whom he was associated for six years. On the expiration of that period he began practice alone, specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye, in which field he has attained marked distinction. He is the author of many articles which have been published in the leading medical journals, especially of those treating of the eye. He has been lecturer on the eye in the Yale Medical School and staff officer in the New Haven Dispensary. He was formerly a member of the medical staff as ophthalmologist at St. Raphael's Hospital and he is now serving on the staff of the New Haven Hospital. In 1909 he took post graduate work in Vienna, Paris and Heidelberg and remained five months abroad, during which time he came under the instruction of some of the most eminent oculists of the old world.

On the 17th of October, 1910 in Charleston. West Virginia, Dr. Blake was united in marriage to Miss Mary Caperton, a native of West Virginia and a daughter of George Henry and Anna (Chambliss) Caperton, both of whom are still living. The only daughter born to Dr. and Mrs. Blake died in infancy.

Dr. and Mrs. Blake are members of Trinity Episcopal church, he belongs to the Graduates' Club, also to Nu Sigma Nu, a medical fraternity, and to Sigma Psi. He is a first lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A.  Dr. Blake holds membership in the New Haven, New Haven County and Connecticut State Medical Societies, the American Medical Association, the American Ophthalmological Society, and the New York Academy of Medicine.