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Pa this locality. She and her husband travel considerably for their health and pleasure, and usually spend the winter in the South, but they continue to maintain their beautiful home at Akron where their many friends are always welcome. By his first marriage Mr. Patterson had one son, Charles W., and by his second, a daughter, Maud, now Mrs. Roy Jones of Akron. A sketch of Mr. Jones and his wife appears elsewhere in this work. Charles W. Patterson was reared in his native county and attended its common schools. He is now operating a hotel at Amarillo, Texas. By his marriage with Miss Addie Sibert, he has five children, one son and four daughters: Chloe, Pauline, Deborah, Herbert and Frances. He and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he is a Republican, and fraternally he affiliates with the Knights of Pythias. [Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 255-258, Dayton Historical Publishing Co., 1923] PATTERSON, WILLIAM A. [Akron, Indiana] BIOGRAPHY One of the representative men of Fulton county and substantial citizens of Akron, is William A. Patterson, president of the Exchange Bank of this city, with which institution he has been continuously identified since its founding in 1891. He comes of an old English family that has been established in the United States for two centuries, and was born in Henry county, Indiana, February 25, 1851. His parents were Daniel B. and Ruth (Quackenbush) Patterson, and of their family of four sons and two daughters, but three survive: M. L., Mary P., wife of [Johnson] E. Burdge, and William A., all residents of Akron. The father was born in New York, February 15, 1813. Orphaned early, he had his own way to make in the world, and was eighteen years of age when he came to seek his fortune in Wayne county, Indiana, in which state he passed the rest of his life. At that time deer and other wild creatures of the forest were plentiful in Wayne county and many Indians yet remained. Although he never acquired great riches, he became widely known and esteemed as an aducator, teaching school for sixteen terms after moving to Henry county. In 1860 he removed to Wabash county and located near Roann, making his home there until his death in 1896. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in political sentiment was first a Whig and later a Republican. William A. Patterson lost his mother in infancy, her death occurring in Henry county. He attended the public schools until about seventeen years old, and from that time on became self-supporting. Work in a general store brought him a weekly salary of $3, not an abundant wage even for that day but it was a beginning, and without doubt a part of it was thriftily laid aside. More responsibility and higher wages soon rewarded his industry and reliability, and he spent about seven years in a dry goods store in Wabash county, removing then to Roann, where in partnership with his brother Levi, he sold the first dry goods ever disposed of in that town, where he soon became an important factor in other business enterprises. He embarked in the lumber business and operated a sawmill and then became a contractor in building gravel roads in Wabash county for an interval of three years. In 1886 he came to Akron and for some years was associated with his brother in the hardware business and later, for a number of years, was concerned in the buying and shipping of cattle. While general development and improvement went on at Akron, there were, as yet, no general banking facilities, Mr. Patterson and his brother for three years acting more or less in a private financial capacity to relieve public necessities, and it was William A. Patterson who was the prime mover in arousing the sentiment that made possible the organizing of the Exchange Bank at Akron, in 1891. Mr. Patterson became the first president of the institution and has never lost interest in what has become one of the most prosperous banks in this section of the state, his name, as president, still being one of its best assets. In 1880 he was married to Miss Rose Loder, who died in 1911, the mother of five children, two of whom survive: Valura P., who is the wife of J. R. Emahiser, a stock buyer at Akron, and they have two children, Billie J. and Mary Rosalie; And Levi Loder, who is a third year student at Purdue University, in the scientific department. Mr. Patterson was married second, in October, 1916, to Miss Annabel Conrad, who was born in Cass
Pa county, Indiana, April 27, 1860, daughter of John Q. and Susanna (Eurit) Conrad, her maternal ancestral line reaching to Germany, and her paternal to England, in which country the Conrads and the Washingtons, from whom descended President George Washington, were kindred. Mrs. Patterson for many years prior to her marriage, was a highly valued educator in Miami and Blackford counties, Indiana, for twenty-one years being a resident of Hartford City. She was thoroughly prepared for her professional career, after graduating from the high school at Logansport attending the normal school at Ladoga and the American normal school at Logansport and two summers at Indiana University. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, belongs to the Eastern Star, and has many social interests. Mr. Patterson belongs to the Masonic fraternity. In political life he is a Republican and cast his first presidential vote for Ulysses S. Grant. [Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 258-260, Dayton Historical Publishing Co., 1923] PATTON, JOHNY [Rochester, Indiana] See: Colored citizens __________ JOHNY PATTON DEAD Uncle Johnny PATTON, colored, died at the County Farm, this morning, of senile debility at the age of more than four score years. Uncle Johnny as he was generally known in this city, where he has resided since the Civil War, with the exception of one year which he spent in Indianapolis, [was] one of Rochester’s characters which has a history. Mr. Patton joined the 87th Ind Co. at Triune, Tennessee, in the spring of 1864 and served as cook for that company during the remainder of the war, returning at its close with the 87th to Rochester. As a citizen he was always law abiding and was well known by many Fulton county people. [d. May 13, 1905, colored Patriot of the Civil War; bur Citizens cem, Rochester, Fulton Co Ind] [Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 13, 1905] JOHNY PATTON’S FUNERAL The funeral of Uncle Johnny PATTON, which occurred from the County Home yesterday, was one which called out unique honors for our aged colored citizen. He was spending a time at the County Home while his own home was being renovated, and his death was unexpected by most people. Messrs. M. L. ESSICK and Jonas MYERS, acting as a committee from the soldiers, purchased a lot in the Citizens cemetery and made all other provisions both for burial and a headstone. About 30 soldiers and friends gathered at the County Home for the funeral, which was conducted by Rev. W. F. SWITZER with addresses upon the life of deceased by Capt. LONG, James GAINER, M. L. ESSICK, Jonas MYERS, J. H. BIBLER, Thomas MERCER and A. T. BITTERS. Mr. Patton was not an enlisted soldier but served with the 87th Ind. Co. from 1864 to the end of the war. The funeral partook of the nature of a Grand army camp -fire and was a tribute, of respect to his faithfulness and integrity as a man. In his early days as a slave he was married, but his wife and children were sold from him. He himself was sold three times, and once for the sum of $1,400. The war gave him his liberty and soldier friends. He chose to come North and live and die among them. He possessed the noblest qualities of the colored race, and his memory will abide in Rochester for many a day. [Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, May 16, 1905] THE STORY BEHIND A CURIOUS GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTION Considered Comment Jack K. Overmyer
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