Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Patton, Joseph 1834 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOSEPH PATTON.

    Joseph Patton, who for some years has been living retired from active life
at Crown Point, is a pioneer farmer and settler of Lake county, with over fifty
years of continuous residence to his credit. During most of this long period he
has made farming his vocation, and still retains the farm on which he laid the
basis of his prosperity. He has also given time and energy to the promotion of
the general welfare of his community, and now at the age of three score and ten
ranks among the men of influence and ability and excellent personal character
and reputation in this part of Lake county.

    Mr. Patton was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, October 17, 1834. His father,
John H. Patton, was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and came to Lake county
in 1852 from Trumbull county, Ohio, locating and improving a farm in Winfield
township, where he died in 1865 at the age of sixty-five years. He married Eliza
Jane Dixon, who was born in Ireland and came to America when about fourteen
years old, and who died at the age of sixty-seven years. They were the parents
of sixteen children, and all of these grew up and married (except the oldest,
who never married) and lived to be past thirty-five years of age. Some of them
still live, being from seventy to eighty years old.

    Mr. Joseph Patton, the seventh son and twelfth child, was reared in Trumbull
county, Ohio, up to his eighteenth year, receiving most of his education in the
old-time log schoolhouse, and in 1852 he accompanied his parents to Lake county.
That was an early year in the history of Lake county, and there were but three
stores in Crown Point at the time. In 1855, after he had married, he located on
land of his own in Winfield township, where he cleared and improved a good
farmstead of one hundred and sixty acres, building the houses and barns and
completing the last of the important improvements in 1882. This is one of the
model places of the township, and he still owns it and finds it a steady source
of revenue, although in 1882 he retired from its active and personal management
and moved into Crown Point, where he also has a fine property. He deserves the
comforts of retired life, and as one of the old settlers has reaped his share of
the profits accruing to those who place themselves in the van of progress and
help develop a new country for the uses of civilization.

    He has also been identified with the public life of Lake county, and is one
of the life-long and influential Republicans of the county. During the Civil war
he enlisted and served as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-first
Indiana Infantry, his record to the end of the war having been most creditable.
He is now a member of the John Wheeler Post, G. A. R., at Crown Point. He has
been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for forty-five years, and has
filled all the offices and is devoted to its work. He was trustee for about
twenty years and is now class leader and also treasurer. He has handled all the
money for the erection of the church at Crown Point, and has contributed much of
his own to the various departments of church work.

    Mr. Patton married, in 1854, Miss Phebe Folsom, who was born in Trumbull
county, Ohio, and who became the mother of two daughters: Olive, the wife of
William Pardington, of Chicago; and Ida May, the widow of Lincoln S. Blakman. In
1867 Mr. Patton married his present wife, Mrs. Eliza (Foster) Patton, who also
had two daughters: Hattie, who died at the age of one and a half years; and
Jennie., the wife of Edward Muzzall, and they have four children.


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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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