Biographical Sketch of H. Patterson, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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H. Patterson, of the firm of Patterson, Noyes & Co., wholesale dealers
in and manufacturers of boots and shoes, was born August 25, 1831, near
St. Louis, Missouri, and was raised a farmer.  In 1849 he left for Cal-
ifornia, returning in August, 1851.  He engaged in the general merch-
andise business at Oregon, Holt County, in August, 1853.  In September,
1857, he moved to Forest City, continuing in the same line until 1871.
In the meantime he was in business at Corning and Falls City, Nebraska.
In 1872 he came to St. Joseph and engaged in the wholesale boot and
shoe business.  Mr. Patterson's father came to Missouri whilst it was
under Spanish government.  The family is one of the very first American
families landing in Missouri.  St. Louis was then a French trading post.
The Chouteau families were there as traders.  There were about twelve
houses or cabins at St. Louis.  Mr. Patterson was married in 1857 to
Miss Mary E. Bevan, a native of Virginia.  They have raised five child-
ren.  He is a Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.  The above firm is successor to Buck, McCoun & Patterson, which
was established in 1872.  They control the labor of the Missouri pen-
itentiary, and make a specialty of manufacturing at the prison and St.
Joseph, employing nineteen men in the wholesale department and work
about two hundred men in the penitentiary.  Their business room is
thirty by one hundred and forty feet, four floors high.  They make a
specialty of standard screw work.

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