Blackman was born in 1876. In 1905, he received the
Ph.D. degree in
entomology from
Harvard University. Starting from 1907 to 1929, he was on the faculty of the
New York State College of Forestry at
Syracuse. He was appointed as senior entomologist in 1929 at the
Bureau of Entomology, a branch of the
United States Department of Agriculture. Blackman worked there until his death in 1943. His speciality was forest entomology, during which career he spent time researching the
biology and
taxonomy of
Scolytidae. ==References==