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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN PATTON is an honored representative of an old and distinguished family.
His parents were William and Martha Lee (Hays) Patton. The former came from the
North of Ireland to America prior to 1800, at the age of sixteen years, and
settled in Virginia, where he was subsequently married, his wife being a native
of that State. In 1812 he came to Huntsville and began merchandising, and in
1815 brought his family from Virginia, driving his wagon the entire distance.
Mr. Patton continued to sell goods up to 1836, and was also largely interested
in planting, owning a large estate in Mississippi and two in Alabama. Mr. Patton
was a member of the firm of Beirne & Patton, and was the architect of his own
fortune. He was a man possessed of rare business judgment, and at the time of
his death, in 1846, left a large estate. He was the father of nine children, all
of whom attained an advanced age and had descendants. Of these, Dr. Charles H.
Patton was a celebrated physician and manufacturer, and accumulated a large
property; Robert M. Patton was a planter, legislator and statesman: he achieved
a high position among public men of Alabama; Jane became the wife of Wm. H.
Pope; Martha married J. B. Bradford, who for many years was a merchant of
Huntsville; Wm. R. was an old merchant and also a planter of Mississippi; Eliza
became the wife of Lawrence Watkins, well known in Alabama and Mississippi; Mary
Ann became the wife of Wm. G. Selleck, and after his death married N. M. Groch,
and is again a widow; Margaret E. became the wife of Ned Richardson, a native of
North Carolina, who subsequently became a cotton factor and commission merchant
of New Orleans. Mr. Richardson is a millionaire, and enjoys the reputation of
being the largest cotton raiser in the world, conducting during the season of
1886 twenty-four plantations. Four sons and one daughter have been born to them.
Mrs. Richardson died December 18, 1887.

  John Patton was born July 5, 1814, in Virginia, and early in life entered his
father's store, where he acquired business habits and methods which fitted him
to succeed to his father's mercantile trade. He purchased his father's interest
in 1836, and successfully conducted it until 1858, acquiring a handsome fortune.
Mr. Patton has also been a leading planter, and was the owner of an extensive
plantation in Mississippi, which he operated until 1868, since which he has
retired from active business life and is now enjoying the autumn of life in his
beautiful home in Huntsville. July 11, 1843, he was united to Miss M. Louise
Walker, a daughter of James Walker, of Virginia, who had served in the State
Legislature and was a large planter.

  Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Patton; three, only, are now
living: James H., of Huntsville, a planter and trader; Robert H., a merchant of
Ellisville, Miss., and Leila D., wife of William H. Raymond, a prominent
merchant and citizen of Selma, Ala.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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