Alfred Thomas Blatchford, general manager of the Richland Shale Products Company and one of Columbia's leading businessmen died at his residence at 4309 Ridgewood Street, Eau Claire at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon following a long illness. Mr. Blatchford had been in ill health since last February, when he suffered a severe attack of Influenza.
Mr. Blatchford was born a little more than 56 years ago in south Australia, where he lived for a short time. His father dying when he was a boy, his mother brought him to America where he has since lived. He was employed in early boyhood by an uncle in brick manufacture near Pittsburgh. Clay and shale products became his specialty, and he spent his life in the study and development of this business. Mr. Blatchford had experience in almost every development of brick and hollow tile manufacture and had either constructed or operated plants for that business in nearly every part of the country and in portions of Canada.
Mr. Blatchford first came to Columbia nearly eight years ago to direct the conversion of the plant of what is now the Columbia Clay Company from the Manufacture of brick to the manufacture of hollow tile.
Later he went to Birmingham but returned about two years ago to promote the new enterprise, which a little over a year ago developed into the Richland Shale Products Company, with its plant a Littleton and its offices in Columbia. Mr. Blatchford as general manager of the company Concentrated his interests in the construction of that plant and worked long after his strength had failed but was only permitted to see the electric current turned on and the machinery move without seeing a single piece of finished product before he was taken to the hospital last September. Since that time, he has been a brave but losing sufferer.
Mr. Blatchford was a devout and faithful member of the First Presbyterian Church and a businessman of singular vision, enjoying the respect and confidence of a large circle of friends.
He is survived by his wife, who lives in Columbia, and one brother, now residing in Australia.
At his own request Mr. Blatchford will be buried "in the land of his Southern friends."
Mr. Blatchford funeral services will be held at the residence Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock conducted by the Rev. Wade H. Boggs, pastor of Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. A. G. Voight and Rev. W. H. Greever, D. D. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Mr. Blatchford was born a little more than 56 years ago in south Australia, where he lived for a short time. His father dying when he was a boy, his mother brought him to America where he has since lived. He was employed in early boyhood by an uncle in brick manufacture near Pittsburgh. Clay and shale products became his specialty, and he spent his life in the study and development of this business. Mr. Blatchford had experience in almost every development of brick and hollow tile manufacture and had either constructed or operated plants for that business in nearly every part of the country and in portions of Canada.
Mr. Blatchford first came to Columbia nearly eight years ago to direct the conversion of the plant of what is now the Columbia Clay Company from the Manufacture of brick to the manufacture of hollow tile.
Later he went to Birmingham but returned about two years ago to promote the new enterprise, which a little over a year ago developed into the Richland Shale Products Company, with its plant a Littleton and its offices in Columbia. Mr. Blatchford as general manager of the company Concentrated his interests in the construction of that plant and worked long after his strength had failed but was only permitted to see the electric current turned on and the machinery move without seeing a single piece of finished product before he was taken to the hospital last September. Since that time, he has been a brave but losing sufferer.
Mr. Blatchford was a devout and faithful member of the First Presbyterian Church and a businessman of singular vision, enjoying the respect and confidence of a large circle of friends.
He is survived by his wife, who lives in Columbia, and one brother, now residing in Australia.
At his own request Mr. Blatchford will be buried "in the land of his Southern friends."
Mr. Blatchford funeral services will be held at the residence Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock conducted by the Rev. Wade H. Boggs, pastor of Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. A. G. Voight and Rev. W. H. Greever, D. D. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Alfred Thomas Blatchford, general manager of the Richland Shale Products Company and one of Columbia's leading businessmen died at his residence at 4309 Ridgewood Street, Eau Claire at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon following a long illness. Mr. Blatchford had been in ill health since last February, when he suffered a severe attack of Influenza.
Mr. Blatchford was born a little more than 56 years ago in south Australia, where he lived for a short time. His father dying when he was a boy, his mother brought him to America where he has since lived. He was employed in early boyhood by an uncle in brick manufacture near Pittsburgh. Clay and shale products became his specialty, and he spent his life in the study and development of this business. Mr. Blatchford had experience in almost every development of brick and hollow tile manufacture and had either constructed or operated plants for that business in nearly every part of the country and in portions of Canada.
Mr. Blatchford first came to Columbia nearly eight years ago to direct the conversion of the plant of what is now the Columbia Clay Company from the Manufacture of brick to the manufacture of hollow tile.
Later he went to Birmingham but returned about two years ago to promote the new enterprise, which a little over a year ago developed into the Richland Shale Products Company, with its plant a Littleton and its offices in Columbia. Mr. Blatchford as general manager of the company Concentrated his interests in the construction of that plant and worked long after his strength had failed but was only permitted to see the electric current turned on and the machinery move without seeing a single piece of finished product before he was taken to the hospital last September. Since that time, he has been a brave but losing sufferer.
Mr. Blatchford was a devout and faithful member of the First Presbyterian Church and a businessman of singular vision, enjoying the respect and confidence of a large circle of friends.
He is survived by his wife, who lives in Columbia, and one brother, now residing in Australia.
At his own request Mr. Blatchford will be buried "in the land of his Southern friends."
Mr. Blatchford funeral services will be held at the residence Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock conducted by the Rev. Wade H. Boggs, pastor of Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. A. G. Voight and Rev. W. H. Greever, D. D. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Mr. Blatchford was born a little more than 56 years ago in south Australia, where he lived for a short time. His father dying when he was a boy, his mother brought him to America where he has since lived. He was employed in early boyhood by an uncle in brick manufacture near Pittsburgh. Clay and shale products became his specialty, and he spent his life in the study and development of this business. Mr. Blatchford had experience in almost every development of brick and hollow tile manufacture and had either constructed or operated plants for that business in nearly every part of the country and in portions of Canada.
Mr. Blatchford first came to Columbia nearly eight years ago to direct the conversion of the plant of what is now the Columbia Clay Company from the Manufacture of brick to the manufacture of hollow tile.
Later he went to Birmingham but returned about two years ago to promote the new enterprise, which a little over a year ago developed into the Richland Shale Products Company, with its plant a Littleton and its offices in Columbia. Mr. Blatchford as general manager of the company Concentrated his interests in the construction of that plant and worked long after his strength had failed but was only permitted to see the electric current turned on and the machinery move without seeing a single piece of finished product before he was taken to the hospital last September. Since that time, he has been a brave but losing sufferer.
Mr. Blatchford was a devout and faithful member of the First Presbyterian Church and a businessman of singular vision, enjoying the respect and confidence of a large circle of friends.
He is survived by his wife, who lives in Columbia, and one brother, now residing in Australia.
At his own request Mr. Blatchford will be buried "in the land of his Southern friends."
Mr. Blatchford funeral services will be held at the residence Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock conducted by the Rev. Wade H. Boggs, pastor of Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. A. G. Voight and Rev. W. H. Greever, D. D. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
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