Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Patton, Augustus B. 1846 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

AUGUSTUS B. PATTON.

    Mr. Patton has been many years in Colorado, and is now a prominent citizen
and attorney of Pueblo. He was born in Fayette County, Penn., January 13, 1846.
His parents moved in 1851 to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he received his
education, which was first-class. He came West when but seventeen years of age,
in 1863. For a number of years he lived in different parts of Colorado, mining
most of the time, and in 1869, he returned to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for the
purpose of reading law. He graduated in the Law Department of Wesleyan
University at Mount Pleasant, and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He practiced
for a short time in Iowa, and in the spring of 1873, he came to Pueblo, Colo.,
where he located, and has since engaged in the practice of his profession. He
was elected Superintendent of Public Schools for the county of Pueblo in
December, 1877, and was re-elected to the same office, which he now holds, in
December, 1879. He has recently associated himself in business with Mr. D. F.
Urmy. The firm of Patton & Urmy have an excellent law practice in Pueblo and
adjoining counties. They also deal considerably in real estate. Mr. Patton is
one of the enterprising and best established citizens of Pueblo. He was married
October 21, 1875, to Miss Ada L. Glisan, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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