Will County IL Archives Biographies.....PATTERSON, MUNGO 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

MUNGO PATTERSON, of Wheatland Township, was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, 

September 22, 1814, and was the eldest of the eleven children of John and Jane 

(Hall) Patterson.  In 1841 he came to America, spending six weeks in an old 

sailing vessel on the Atlantic, and finally landing in New York.  After three 

years in that state, in 1844 he came via the lakes to Illinois and settled in 

Will County, where he began farming on a tract of one hundred and twenty acres 

of open prairie.  He broke the land and made necessary improvements.  As he 

prospered he bought other land until he farmed a large tract.  In addition to 

the raising of wheat and oats, he gave considerable attention to Durham 

cattle.  About 1885 he retired from active work, to enjoy his declining years 

in the midst of the comforts a life of frugality made possible.

In New York state Mr. Patterson married Agnes, daughter of Robert Clow, a 

pioneer of this county.  They had seven children, viz.: John, a farmer in 

Indiana; Robert, a farmer in Dupage Township; William, in the same township; 

Sarah, who married Robert Wightman and lives on the home place; Agnes, who 

married, but is now deceased; Adam, who cultivates a farm adjoining the 

homestead; and Helen, who died in infancy.


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900



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