Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana (1904) (14779313221)

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Title: Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ball, T. H. (Timothy Horton), 1826-1913
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Publisher: Chicago New York, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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rn in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on the31st of August, 1867, and is one of a family of eight children, four sons andfour daughters, whose parents are William and Mary (McAlpin) Patterson.His paternal grandfather, William Patterson, Sr., was born in Scotland,belonging to one of the old families of that country. Emigrating to America,he spent his last days in Canada, where he died at the very advanced age ofninety-two years. He had long devoted his energies to agricultural pursuitsand in that way had provided for his family, numbering his wife and four orfive children. William Patterson, Jr., was born in Catron, Scotland, and after arrivingat years of maturity he married Miss Mary McAlpin, a native of Kilmarnock,Ayr.sbire. She belonged to a family numbering several daughters and herfather died in Scotland when he had attained a venerable age. WilliamPatterson followed mining during much of his life. \M:en a young man heleft Scotland and went to Australia, where he was engaged in mining gold.
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HISTORY OF LAKE COUNTY. 333 He afterward emigrated to Canada, locating in a pioneer district, and therehe carried on farming for three or four years, at the end of which time hewent to Pennsylvania. On leaving that state about 1876 he journeyed west-ward to Illinois, settling at Coal City, where he engaged in mining coal, buthis last vears were spent in the Indian Territor), where he died in 1885, ■^the age of fift)--eight years. His wife still survives him and is now seventy-six years of age. Like her husband she is a member of the Presbyterianchurch, and through many years has shaped her life by its teachings andprecepts. To this worthy couple were born four sons and four daughters,and six are yet living: Margaret, who is the wife of D. W. Frye, of CoalCity. Illinois; Helen, the wife of David H. \\^ilson, also a resident of CoalCity; \\illiam M., who is living in St. Louis, Missouri; Robert J., a residentof Moberly, Missouri; James A.; and Elizabeth, the wife of Cornelius Clark,of