Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Patton, Robert H. February 9, 1842 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Carlene Still crstill@oregontrail.net October 9, 2006, 6:31 am

Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 482, 483

Robert H. Patton
	A brief outline of the active and varied career of the prominent 
stockman and agriculturist whose name heads this article is justly accorded a 
place in this volume, and with pleasure we contemplate one whose integrity and 
ability have won him a position of merited distinction, which his intrinsic 
moral worth has adorned during a lengthened life of diligence and industry.
	Mr. Patton was born on February 9, 1842, in Butler county, 
Pennsylvania, and passed his early childhood on a farm. In 1848 his parents 
moved to another part of the state and his father entered the flour milling 
business. Until the spring of 1860 he remained at home, gaining a good 
education and much experience that was very beneficial in the after years of 
his life. For seven years subsequent to leaving home he was engaged as a pilot 
on the Ohio river, and then turned his attention to the oil business, 
operating with the Bear Creek Oil Company, in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. 
In this occupation he was engaged for thirteen years, when he came to Montana 
and operated a sawmill for one year. After this he came to Umatilla county and 
took up a pre-emption, continuing in its cultivation for seven years, or until 
1887, when he removed to the Grande Ronde valley and built a sawmill, which he 
successfully operated for four years. At the conclusion of this venture he 
embarked in the sheep business in the Columbia valley, which was a 
remunerative industry and prosecuted for four years, at which time he sold out 
and bought the ranch where he now lives, on Birch creek. Here he has divided 
his attention between the stock business and agriculture, and has achieved a 
financial success. In March, 1900, in company with Alonzo Knotts, he built a 
feed and planing mill and established a lumber and feed yard at Pilot Rock and 
a sawmill at California Gulch, all of which he still operates with a good 
trade and still increasing patronage.
	He was married to Miss Felicia Smith, a native of New York, in 
Smethport, Pennsylvania, McKean county, on October 12, 1864. They have had 
born to them the following children: Cora May, born January 16, 1867, now Mrs. 
J. B. McDill, superintendent of the county hospital; Herbert A., born May 10, 
1869, and now a resident of Walla Walla; Mary A., born March 15, 1871, now 
Mrs. E. A. Rineheart, whose husband is a stockman on Camas Prairie; Lee R., 
born September 10, 1873, in the sheep business in Montana;  Alonzo R., born 
July 29, 1875, now residing in Lagrand, Union county, this state; Sarah E., 
born November 26, 1877, now Mrs. H. C. Dunn, of McKay; Robert T., born January 
26, 1879; Maggie B., born April 15, 1883; Beulah P., born July 3, 1885; Lorn 
F., born November 26, 1886. Mr. Patton was the first settler at Camas Prairie. 
He is a member of the Christian church, where he is well known for his 
activity and generous support of the gospel, while in his every day life he is 
manifesting that stability and practical Christianity that commends him to all 
and he merits the respect and esteem that is bestowed generously upon him.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/umatilla/bios/patton239gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/

File size: 4.1 Kb