Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Patton, James 1831 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JAMES PATTON.

    James Patton, retired farmer of Winfield township, is a representative
citizen of Lake county, entirely deserving of the substantial place he has
gained in the esteem and high regard of his fellow citizens. His life of more
than threescore and ten years has been fruitful in many ways. From early years
he devoted himself industriously to his duties as a farmer, and only within the
last few years has he remitted the diligence and constant effort which gained
him prosperity in material circumstances and influence in affairs of
citizenship. He made his first acquaintance with Lake county over fifty-five
years ago, and some fifteen years later returned to this fertile agricultural
section of northern Indiana and made it the field of his endeavors for his
subsequent active career. He is accordingly well informed as to the various
epochs in Lake county's industrial and political history, and is one of the
honored old-timers.

    Mr. Patton was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, April 26, 1831, being a son of
John and Eliza Jane (Dixon) Patton, the former a native of Butler county,
Pennsylvania, and the latter of Ireland, whence she came to America at the age
of fourteen. His parents were married in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where his
father followed the occupation of farming, but spent his last years in Lake
county, Indiana, where his death occurred at the age of sixty-five. There were
sixteen children in the family, and all but one grew up and married and reared
families.

  Mr. James Patton, the eighth of this large family, was reared in Trumbull
county, and during his boyhood attended a log-cabin school for several years,
drinking in such knowledge as this primitive fountain of learning afforded. In
1848, when aged seventeen, he started out in life for himself, coming to Lake
county, Indiana, where he remained and gained a good acquaintance with the
country for three years. He returned to Trumbull county, where he was married,
and remained in his native county until 1864, when he went to Williams county,
Ohio, and in 1868 came and took up his residence in Winfield township of Lake
county, where he continued his successful farming operations until 1901, when he
moved to his present residence in the same township and resigned most of his
former business cares. Mr. Patton has always adhered to the Democracy in his
political views. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married,
in 1858, Miss Mary Earl, who was born and reared in Trumbull county, Ohio, and
died in Lake county, April 9, 1894. There were eleven children born of this
marriage, but six are deceased. Those living are: Euthema, the wife of David
Booth, of Chicago; Kittie, wife of William Vansciver, of Crown Point; Orwillie,
wife of Michael Hefron, of Chicago Heights, Illinois; Flora Unora, at home; and
James, unmarried.


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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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