Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Blattner, John September 16, 1842 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

 JOHN BLATTNER, of Worcester township, Montgomery county, an 
energetic and successful farmer, has won for himself a 
creditable place and a competence in the business world, 
though he came to America as a boy with no resource save his 
inheritance of a sound body and a vigorous mind.

  He was born in Wittenburg, Germany, September 16, 1842, a 
son of Anthony and Lona (Herman) Blattner, his father being 
a farmer. Mr. Blattner was one of three children, his 
brother remaining in Germany, and his sister coming to 
America, where she married Andrew Gaysor, in Philadelphia. 
He attended school until he was fourteen and then worked on 
his father's farm, until seventeen years of age, when he 
came to America. He went to Norriton township, Montgomery 
county, where he worked on the farm of Henry L. Heebner for 
about four years. He was next in the employ of Dr. Martin 
for a time, after which he was employed for two years by Dr. 
Krause. Following this, he worked for five years for Charles 
Kreble, and then bought the property where he now lives. 

  This farm consists of fifty-two acres, and in addition he 
owns two other pieces of land in Worcester township, one 
consisting of twenty-eight and the other of forty-two acres. 
Dairying is the principal line of his farm work, and he 
keeps on an average on the home place about sixteen head of 
cows. He is a careful manager, thorough in all his methods, 
and confines his operations to the business lines with which 
he is thoroughly familiar, and in which his practical 
experience and sound judgment win him success.

  Mr. Blattner is highly regarded in the community and is 
thoroughly in touch with the spirit of his adopted country. 
While not a member of any church he is tolerant in his views 
and is ready to co-operate in any good work, either in the 
church or outside of religious organizations. In politics he 
is a Republican and follows the course of public affairs 
with much interest.

  On December 08, 1869, John Blattner and Elizabeth Cassel 
were married by the Rev. S. M. K. Huber. Mrs. Blattner was a 
daughter of Abraham and Susanna Cassel, and was one of a 
family of seven children, as follows: Isiah, born March 8, 
1842: Elizabeth, born October 18, 1843, the wife of John 
Blattner; Cornelius, born June 23, 1845, deceased; Abraham, 
born March 23, 18x7, now living at Skippack; Susanna, who 
was born January 30, 1849, and married Herman Wise, a shoe 
dealer of Norristown, and who has had nine children, three 
of whom are dead; Benjamin, who was born December 15, 1853, 
and is a farmer of Worcester township, represented elsewhere 
in this work; and Mary, born January 12, 1855, the wife of 
Michael Kreeble, a farmer of Worcester township, and the 
mother of three children.

  John and Elizabeth (Cassel) Blattner have become the 
parents of nine children, as follows Charles, who is a 
farmer in Belfry, born June 25, 1871, married Rachel Green, 
and has had two children, of whom Bertha, three years old, 
is living; George, born August 5, 1872, and living on one of 
his father's farms, married Annie Fisher and has four 
children, Elizabeth, Frances, Florence, and George; Joseph, 
a farmer and huckster of Worcester township, born September 
15, 1873, married Emma, daughter of Anthony Shultz of 
Belfry, and has two children, John and Elmer; Abraham, born 
April 16, 1875, died September 11, 1875; Mary Ann, born 
October 10, 1876, died August 14, 1877; Frank, a milk dealer 
of Norristown, born November 28, 1877, married Lina Shultz, 
daughter of Wilson Shultz of Lansdale; Aaron, born July 1, 
1879, and living on one of his father's farms, married 
Alice, daughter of Anthony Schultz of Belfry; Ella, born 
March 6, 1882, is at home; Margaretta, born July 11, 1885, 
died in  March, 1904.

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