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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JAMES A. PATTERSON.

    James A. Patterson, an attorney at law engaged in practice in Indiana Harbor
since the summer of 1902, was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on the 31st of
August, 1867, and is one of a family of eight children, four sons and four
daughters, whose parents are William and Mary (McAlpin) Patterson. His paternal
grandfather, William Patterson, Sr., was born in Scotland, belonging to one of
the old families of that country. Emigrating to America, he spent his last days
in Canada, where he died at the very advanced age of ninety-two years. He had
long devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits and in that way had provided
for his family, numbering his wife and four or five children.

    William Patterson, Jr., was born in Catron, Scotland, and after arriving at
years of maturity he married Miss Mary McAlpin, a native of Kilmarnock,
Ayrshire. She belonged to a family numbering several daughters and her father
died in Scotland when he had attained a venerable age. William Patterson
followed mining during much of his life. When a young man he left Scotland and
went to Australia, where he was engaged in mining gold. He afterward emigrated
to Canada, locating in a pioneer district, and there he carried on farming for
three or four years, at the end of which time he went to Pennsylvania. On
leaving that state about 1876 he journeyed westward to Illinois, settling at
Coal City, where he engaged in mining coal, but his last years were spent in the
Indian Territory, where he died in 1885, at the age of fifty-eight years. His
wife still survives him and is now seventy-six years of age. Like her husband
she is a member of the Presbyterian church, and through many years has shaped
her life by its teachings and precepts. To this worthy couple w*ere born four
sons and four daughters, and six are yet living: Margaret, who is the wife of D.
W. Frye, of Coal City, Illinois; Helen, the wife of David H. Wilson, also a
resident of Coal City; William M., who is living in St. Louis, Missouri; Robert
J., a resident of Moberly, Missouri; James A.; and Elizabeth, the wife of
Cornelius Clark, of Coal City, Illinois.

    James A. Patterson was a lad of about nine years when with his parents he
removed to Coal City, Illinois, where the days of his youth were passed and his
early education was acquired. He afterward pursued a business course in a
commercial college at Leavenworth, Kansas, and later he occupied a position as
bookkeeper for four or five years. He then went to Valparaiso College and was
graduated from the scientific and literary departments, so that he gained a
broad general knowledge to serve as an excellent foundation upon which to rear
the superstructure of professional learning. Following the completion of his
normal work at Valparaiso, he took up the study of law in the Chicago Law School
of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1898, and the same year was admitted
to the bar. He has since engaged in practice, covering a period of six years,
and on the 1st of April, 1902, he opened an office in Indiana Harbor, where he
has since been located. His clientage is continually growing and has connected
him with much of the important litigation tried here. He is thorough and
painstaking in the preparation of a case, clear and concise in argument, cogent
and logical in his reasoning, and has attained a creditable position among the
younger members of the Lake county bar.

    On the 24th of June, 1898, occurred the marriage of Mr. Patterson and Miss
May A. Wiles, a daughter of Truman B. and Abigail E. Wiles. Abigail E. Wiles
died June 17, 1904, at Mabel, Minnesota. They reside at 3729 Grapevine street,
where Mr. Patterson erected a good home in the summer of 1903. Politically he is
a Republican. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen
fraternities, and his wife is connected with the ladies' auxiliaries of both.
She, too, is a graduate of Valparaiso College, and they both occupy an enviable
position in the social circles where culture and intelligence predominate.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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