Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Patterick, George N.  September 22, 1850 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     One of the great sources of strength in American manhood and enterprise is

the conglomerate nature of our people.  The country has laid all lands under

tribute, and our independence and wealth of opportunity enable us to evoke the

best elements of character from all and combine them into a force for productive

energy that nothing can withstand.  It is to Yorkshire, England, a section of

country renowned throughout the civilized world for the extent of its

manufactures and the thrift and enterprise of its people, that we are indebted

for George N. Patterick, of Mesa county, the most successful and skillful market

gardener in that portion of the state.  He was born in Yorkshire on September

22, 1850, and although he came to the United States when he was but two years

old, and therefore was almost wholly reared and wholly educated in this country,

he still has the original fiber of the Yorkshireman, and has exhibited his best

qualities in the management of his various pursuits in different parts of

America.  His parents, Thomas and Alice (Varley) Patterick, were also native in

that portion of England, and belonged to families resident there four or five

generations, having originally come from Scotland and settled there.  The father

was a shepherd in his native land, but being impressed with the greater chance

for progress in the boundless expanse of this country, came hither in 1852 with

his family and settled in Will county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming. 

His wife died there in 1873 and he in Chicago in 1891.  Three of their children

grew to maturity and two are now living, their son George and a sister who is

younger than he.  He grew to manhood on the Illinois farm and received his

education in the district schools near his home. After his marriage, at the age

of twenty-three, he bought a farm in Illinois, but he sold it soon afterward and

moved to Buena Vista county, Iowa, where he purchased one hundred and sixty

acres of wild land which he improved into an excellent farm.  In 1889 he moved

to Storm Lake, the county seat, and for five years thereafter he conducted at

that place a prosperous business as a paper hanger and painter.  In 1894 he came

to Mesa county and bought his present farm of twenty-three acres, on which he

engaged in market gardening.  In this he has been unusually successful, having

skill and industry in the business and studying its needs with care and applying

his knowledge with judgment.  He has the finest market gardens in the county,

and gets from them good returns for his labor.  His land is enriched with a good

dwelling and other buildings, and every appliance required for his work is at

hand.  On January 1, 1873, he was wedded with Miss Adelia Bohlander, a native of

Cook county, Illinois, the daughter of John P. and Elizabeth (Bassett)

Bohlander, the former born in Germany and the latter in New Jersey.  The father

came to the United States with his parents when he was fourteen years old, and

with them located in Cook county, Illinois.  There he grew to manhood and was

married, and soon after settled in Will county, the same state, where he died in

1876.  His wife is now living with her children, and is seventy-six years old.

Mr. and Mrs. Patterick have four children:  Alice R., wife of August Eastling,

of Towner county, North Dakota; Charles W., of Grand Junction; and George H. and

Rhoda L., still living at home.  In politics both Mr. Patterick and his wife are

stanch and earnest Republicans.  He is a valuable member of the school board and

serves efficiently as its treasurer. 

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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