from The History of Hendricks County (Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914)----pages 218-220
There are individuals in nearly every community who, by reason of pronounced ability and force of character, rise above the heads of the masses and command the unbounded esteem of their fellow men. Characterized by perseverance and a directing spirit, two virtues that never fail, such men always make their present felt and the vigor of their strong personalities serves as a stimulus and incentive to the young and rising generation. To this energetic and enterprising class the subject of this sketch very properly belongs. Having never been seized with the wanderlust spirit that has led many of Hendricks County's young men to other fields of endeavor and other states, Mr. Blessing has devoted himself to his adopted profession and to the public duties to which he has been called, and because of his personal worth and his accomplishments, he is clearly entitled to representation among the enterprising and progressive men of his locality.
Edgar M. Blessing, the son of George A. and Margaret (Ladd) Blessing, was born in Wadena, Indiana, in 1876. He was given a good common school education, graduated from the high school at Wadena and later from the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute in 1899. Between the time he entered the State Normal and his graduation he taught two years, and after his graduation was principal of the Plainfield High School for two years. During the summer of 1900 he was in attendance at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. In 1901 he was for five months clerk of the Indiana Boys' School at Plainfield. In the fall of 1901 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Law in June, 1904. In January, 1905, he opened a law office in Danville for the practice of law. A year later he was elected prosecuting attorney, which office he now fills very acceptably. He has been distinguished by his work in the office of attorney in the well known Asher and Moon cases. As county attorney he is official attorney for the board of county commissioners, and has had work of great importance for them, which he has creditably performed. He prepared all the papers for the board of commissioners in the new court house matters and prepared the transcript for the sale of the bonds for two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the proposed new court house. The bond attorneys who examined the transcript pronounced it legally perfect and could make no corrections or amendments and went so far as to compliment the work he did. In this high and difficult service for the public he evidenced capacity in his profession.
Mr. Blessing was married October 5, 1905, to Geraldine M., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. C.A. White, of Danville. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Danville, and are interested in all its activities. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and is worshipful master of the Western Star Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Danville. He is also a thirty-second-degree Mason and a Shriner of Murat Temple, Indianapolis.
Mr. Blessing loves the law because its purpose is the preservation for each citizen in the state of his rights for his own use. The practice of the true lawyer is the practice of patriotism, and Mr. Blessing has the high ambition to be a true lawyer. There is no nobler ambition, no greater field for usefulness, and all that is needed is time to make him eminent in his profession. He is now assistant to Prof. Solon Enloe, the head of the law department of Central Normal College, of Danville.