BLATT BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BLATT, S. - b: 1846 Henry Co, OH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 498
residence: Clinton

S. Blatt, proprietor of livery, feed and sale stable. The subject of this sketch was 
born in Henry County, Ohio, October 13, 1846. When he was nine years of age his 
father's family removed to Woods County, Ohio. Left an orphan in his fourteenth 
year, he was compelled to obtain a living for himself, which he did. Remaining in 
Woods County till 1867, he then went to Dubuque, Iowa, where he had relatives 
living, with whose assistance he was enabled to take a course of study at 
Bailey's Commercial College of that city, which he attended nine months. 
Previous to this time, however, while in Ohio he attended in 1866 the Spencer 
Commercial College at Cleveland. He was subsequently for a time engaged in 
school teaching, and in the fall of 1868 he returned to Ohio and resided there till 
the fall of 1869, when he located in Missouri and embarked in stock dealing. In 
the spring of 1870 he came to Clinton, Missouri, and established himself in the 
hotel business, in what was then the St. Stephens House, continuing therein till 
the fall of 1872. Then he was elected constable of what then included eight 
townships, the office at that time being a very profitable one. This position he 
filled having been re-elected several times, till resigning it in 1877. In July, 
1875, he commenced the livery business on the south side of the square, where 
he remained till December, 1877. Then Mr. Hormeyer became a partner with him, 
and they conducted the establishment till March, 1878, when they bought the 
stock of the other stable then here, managing them both till the fall of 1881, at 
which time they disposed of their livery business. Mr. B. then built his large sale 
stable on Main Street, where he now buys and sells exclusively. He makes a 
specialty of mule buying and feeding for the market. Since December, 1882, he 
has been a partner with Mr. Duncan in the livery trade below the Jordan House, 
where they have a well equipped stable. In 1879 he was elected mayor of this 
city and was its first mayor under the new city charter. He discharged the duties 
of that office for two years. Mr. Blatt was married October 1, 1868, to Miss 
Frances J. Shaw, a native of Delaware County, Iowa. They have two children, 
Rufus E. and Henry S. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity and of the 
encampment of that order, and has held all the offices within the gift of the 
lodge.

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