Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Blatchley, James W. May 20, 1842 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Blatchley, James W., Warren, was born where he now lives May 20, 1842, and is 
a son of Seeley and Anna (Webb) Blatchley.  His grandfather was James and his 
great-grandfather Seeley Blatchley, who came from Connecticut.  The subject's 
grandfather was born in Saratoga county and came to Warren with his parents.  
He owned six or seven hundred acres of land.  His wife was Elizabeth Keeler, 
who bore hiim six children.  The subject's father ws born in Warren in 1808, 
where he died in July, 1889; his widow survives.  She was born March 16, 1816, 
and bore him three children:  James W., Ceylon E., and Francis M.  He left a 
farm of 300 acres.  James W. Blatchley received an academic education, and has 
carried on dairying and hop raising as a special feature.  He has also been 
engaged for ten years in the agricultural implement business.  He is a 
Republican and has been supervisor and justice in a Democratic town.  He 
married, February 25, 1875, Ella, daughter of John and Polly (Shaul) Wickoff, 
who bore him one child, Ella, who died at fourteen.  Mrs. Blatchley died March 
16, 1877.  She was a Baptist.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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