SAMUEL BLATTNER, Effingham City.
Prominently identified among the businessmen of this place is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a native of Knetingen, Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and was born November 13, 1831. He is a son of John Blattner, who was born in 1797, in Switzerland, his occupation that of a tailor; came to the United States in 1834, and died in Madison County, Ill. Anna Blattner, the mother of our subject was born in 1804, in Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and died in Highland, Madison Co., Ill. There are thirteen children in the family, seven of whom are now living. Mr. Blattner went to school only a part of three months, in Highland, Ill. He is mainly self-educated. He came to the United States in 1834. He first landed in New York, then went to St. Louis. From there he went to Madison County, Ill. He worked on a farm there till he was nineteen years of age, when he learned the blacksmith's trade in Highland, Ill., where he was married, Jun 6, 1854, to Miss Anna Keaser, who first beheld the light of the world in Switzerland, in February, 1828. She is a daughter of John and Barbara Keaser, both of whom were born in Switzerland. Mr. Blattner has one daughter, named Barbara, born in 1855, in Highland, Ill. She was married to Mr. Albert Gravenhorst, whose father is the editor of the German paper known as the Effingham Volksblat. Mr. Blattner enlisted in the Second Missouri Infantry, Company K, May 19, 1861. He was in the battles of Booneville, Mo.; Wilson Creek, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville and Stone River, where he was wounded, and after that he served in the Invalid Corps, doing provost duty in New York State until he was discharged, September 10, 1864. In religion, our subject is a Lutheran; also an old Jeffersonian Democrat. After the war, Mr. Blattner came to Edgewood, Effingham County, in which place he went into the liquor business, which he continued after coming to Effingham, Ill., in 1878. He draws a pension, and was at one time a Trustee in Edgewood.
FROM: History of Effingham county, Illinois, 1883, pg 6
edited by William Henry Perrin
Prominently identified among the businessmen of this place is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a native of Knetingen, Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and was born November 13, 1831. He is a son of John Blattner, who was born in 1797, in Switzerland, his occupation that of a tailor; came to the United States in 1834, and died in Madison County, Ill. Anna Blattner, the mother of our subject was born in 1804, in Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and died in Highland, Madison Co., Ill. There are thirteen children in the family, seven of whom are now living. Mr. Blattner went to school only a part of three months, in Highland, Ill. He is mainly self-educated. He came to the United States in 1834. He first landed in New York, then went to St. Louis. From there he went to Madison County, Ill. He worked on a farm there till he was nineteen years of age, when he learned the blacksmith's trade in Highland, Ill., where he was married, Jun 6, 1854, to Miss Anna Keaser, who first beheld the light of the world in Switzerland, in February, 1828. She is a daughter of John and Barbara Keaser, both of whom were born in Switzerland. Mr. Blattner has one daughter, named Barbara, born in 1855, in Highland, Ill. She was married to Mr. Albert Gravenhorst, whose father is the editor of the German paper known as the Effingham Volksblat. Mr. Blattner enlisted in the Second Missouri Infantry, Company K, May 19, 1861. He was in the battles of Booneville, Mo.; Wilson Creek, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville and Stone River, where he was wounded, and after that he served in the Invalid Corps, doing provost duty in New York State until he was discharged, September 10, 1864. In religion, our subject is a Lutheran; also an old Jeffersonian Democrat. After the war, Mr. Blattner came to Edgewood, Effingham County, in which place he went into the liquor business, which he continued after coming to Effingham, Ill., in 1878. He draws a pension, and was at one time a Trustee in Edgewood.
FROM: History of Effingham county, Illinois, 1883, pg 6
edited by William Henry Perrin
SAMUEL BLATTNER, Effingham City.
Prominently identified among the businessmen of this place is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a native of Knetingen, Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and was born November 13, 1831. He is a son of John Blattner, who was born in 1797, in Switzerland, his occupation that of a tailor; came to the United States in 1834, and died in Madison County, Ill. Anna Blattner, the mother of our subject was born in 1804, in Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and died in Highland, Madison Co., Ill. There are thirteen children in the family, seven of whom are now living. Mr. Blattner went to school only a part of three months, in Highland, Ill. He is mainly self-educated. He came to the United States in 1834. He first landed in New York, then went to St. Louis. From there he went to Madison County, Ill. He worked on a farm there till he was nineteen years of age, when he learned the blacksmith's trade in Highland, Ill., where he was married, Jun 6, 1854, to Miss Anna Keaser, who first beheld the light of the world in Switzerland, in February, 1828. She is a daughter of John and Barbara Keaser, both of whom were born in Switzerland. Mr. Blattner has one daughter, named Barbara, born in 1855, in Highland, Ill. She was married to Mr. Albert Gravenhorst, whose father is the editor of the German paper known as the Effingham Volksblat. Mr. Blattner enlisted in the Second Missouri Infantry, Company K, May 19, 1861. He was in the battles of Booneville, Mo.; Wilson Creek, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville and Stone River, where he was wounded, and after that he served in the Invalid Corps, doing provost duty in New York State until he was discharged, September 10, 1864. In religion, our subject is a Lutheran; also an old Jeffersonian Democrat. After the war, Mr. Blattner came to Edgewood, Effingham County, in which place he went into the liquor business, which he continued after coming to Effingham, Ill., in 1878. He draws a pension, and was at one time a Trustee in Edgewood.
FROM: History of Effingham county, Illinois, 1883, pg 6
edited by William Henry Perrin
Prominently identified among the businessmen of this place is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a native of Knetingen, Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and was born November 13, 1831. He is a son of John Blattner, who was born in 1797, in Switzerland, his occupation that of a tailor; came to the United States in 1834, and died in Madison County, Ill. Anna Blattner, the mother of our subject was born in 1804, in Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and died in Highland, Madison Co., Ill. There are thirteen children in the family, seven of whom are now living. Mr. Blattner went to school only a part of three months, in Highland, Ill. He is mainly self-educated. He came to the United States in 1834. He first landed in New York, then went to St. Louis. From there he went to Madison County, Ill. He worked on a farm there till he was nineteen years of age, when he learned the blacksmith's trade in Highland, Ill., where he was married, Jun 6, 1854, to Miss Anna Keaser, who first beheld the light of the world in Switzerland, in February, 1828. She is a daughter of John and Barbara Keaser, both of whom were born in Switzerland. Mr. Blattner has one daughter, named Barbara, born in 1855, in Highland, Ill. She was married to Mr. Albert Gravenhorst, whose father is the editor of the German paper known as the Effingham Volksblat. Mr. Blattner enlisted in the Second Missouri Infantry, Company K, May 19, 1861. He was in the battles of Booneville, Mo.; Wilson Creek, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville and Stone River, where he was wounded, and after that he served in the Invalid Corps, doing provost duty in New York State until he was discharged, September 10, 1864. In religion, our subject is a Lutheran; also an old Jeffersonian Democrat. After the war, Mr. Blattner came to Edgewood, Effingham County, in which place he went into the liquor business, which he continued after coming to Effingham, Ill., in 1878. He draws a pension, and was at one time a Trustee in Edgewood.
FROM: History of Effingham county, Illinois, 1883, pg 6
edited by William Henry Perrin
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