Misc: Scrapbook of Samuel Henry Patterson, 1840-1921: Armstrong Co, PA

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The following comes from the scrapbook of Samuel Henry Patterson
(1840-1921), son of Samuel Patterson and Margaret BEATTY, d/o William
BEATTY and Isabella CALDWELL of Armstrong County, PA. 

1861:  Someone in Carnegie decides that there is a pool of oil sitting
below the creek bed on Chartiers Creek, and seeks some financial
backing.  Look who bought stock in the business.  Col. M.B. Brown,  J.V.
Rolland, Samuel Davis, R.H. Fife, Hugh Lee, J.L. Marshall, Leonard
Kearns, S.H. Patterson, Robert Bell, James Caldwell, and Samuel Bell.
(Note: The Bells are related to the Pattersons as is Leonard Kearns.)
(The civil war breaks out, they keep replacing the driller teams because
they leave to join the war, eventually they run out of money and never
find the oil.)

        Mrs. Martha Jane Bollman aged 79, widow of William Bollman and a
well known former resident of Grove City, Pa., died yesterday at noon at
the home of her daughter, Mrs J.J.Teare, 320 N.Murtland avenue, East
End, from the effects of a fall from her bed sustained three weeks
ago.  She was born in Armstrong County near Leechburg.  When 19 years of
age she married William Bollman, who died in 1899.  Previous to coming to
Pittsburgh three years ago, Mrs. Bollman had lived in Grove City 23
years.  She was a life-long member of the Presbyterian Church, which she
joined when she was four years of age.  Five children survive:  The Rev.
J.B. Bollman, Kansas City;  Mrs. J.H. Stewart, Finance Street,
Pittsburgh;  Mrs. J.W.Curry, Kane Pa.;  S.S. Bollman, Grove City; and
Mrs. Teare. Funeral services will be held in Grove City, at 1:30 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, with the interment in Woodland Cemetery, Grove City.
(Hand written note: Mrs. Bollman was an aunt of S.H. Patterson.)

         Wolfe, Dorcas On Friday June 1, 1917 at 4:55 P.M. Dorcas Wolfe,
daughter of the late N.C. and Mary P.Wolfe, of Kittanning, Pa. Funeral
services at the residence of her brother, 2236 Perrysville Avenue, North
Side, Pittsburg, on Sunday, June 3, 1917, at 4 P.M.  Interment at
Kittanning, Pa. on Monday. (Written beneath; Miss Wolfe was a cousin of
S.H. Patterson.)

Colling, Annie Walker:
Thursday, October 3, 1918 at 4 A.M., Mrs. Annie Walker Cooling in her
92d year.  Funeral services at the residence of her grandson, Harry C.
Graham, 5874 Aylesboro Avenue, Squirrel Hill on Saturday October 5, at 2
P.M.

Carnegie, PA. March 25, 1920.  Real Estate Transfers Recorded:  March 4,
Emma Walker to the Borough of Carnegie.

CLARK, In the death of Mrs. Eliza (Walker) Clark, Carnegie loses one of
it's oldest if not it's oldest resident.  She was 93 years old and was
the widow of George Clark who died 32 years ago.  Mrs. Clark is survived
by three sons, J. Walker, George H., and Robert B. Clark, two daughters,
Mrs. Robert Young of Mars, and Mrs. George Hay of Tarentum.

A write up, (1919) about the brothers, Capt. Andrew Fry, and Capt.
Daniel Fry, boatmen pilots, who amassed fortunes getting supplies up and
down the Allegheny River to the oil men in Tidiute and Titusville.  It
has a hand written notation saying:  (S.H. Patterson associated with
them in 1856 at Manorville, Armstrong County.)

Another Aged Resident Dead.

W.M. Patterson one of the oldest residents of this community died this
Thursday morning Oct. 9th 1913, at 4:30 o'clock at his home in
Manorville following a complication of diseases and heart failure.  He
was aged 75 years and was for over half a century a resident of
Manorville where in the early days he conducted  a carriage shop in the
northern end of town.  Some few years ago he turned over the business to
his son George and began work with the gas company. W.M. Patterson is
survived by his wife and two sons W.J. Patterson of Portland, Oregon,
and George B. Patterson of Staten Island, New York. The funeral will
take place Saturday afternoon and will be in charge of the Manorville
lodge of Odd Fellows (what are they saying here?) of which society the
deceased had been a member for many years.  The funeral sermon will be
preached by the Rev. Samuel Cousins who will be assisted by Rev. William
Fitzgerald.  The interment will be at Manorville cemetery. Funeral
services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence
at Manorville.  Mr. Patterson was a native of the county, being born on
the Beatty farm in Manor Twp. Henry Patterson, brother of the late W.M.
Patterson arrived from Carnegie this morning to attend the funeral of
his brother.

THE DEATH ROLL
Samuel Patterson
Samuel Patterson, one of the oldest residents of Carnegie died at his
home in Beechwood Avenue at 9 o'clock yesterday morning in his 87th
year.  He had been ill for several months.  Mr. Patterson was born in
Wilmington Del. on November 14, 1815.  In 1818 he removed to Pittsburgh
with his parents. After a few years in the city they moved to Bishop,
where Mr.  Patterson  was reared on the old Dixon farm.  When a young
man he removed to Manorville, Armstrong County and in 1837 he married
Miss Margaret Beatty of that place.  A few years later, Mr. Patterson
returned to Allegheny County, locating at Carnegie. In 1856 he
established a wagon manufactory in Carnegie, then Mansfield Borough. He
was identified with this business for many years, being senior member of
the old firm of Patterson and Kearns.  The firm manufactured wagons in
the Chartiers Valley before steam had come into use and made many
vehicles which traveled over the old Steubenville and Washington
pikes.  Mr. Kearns, his partner, died in Dec. of last year, aged 87
years.  Mr. Patterson retired from business several years ago and
resided with his son J.G. Patterson in Library Hill.  His wife died in
1890.  He was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian church, and one of
the oldest members of the First Presbyterian Church of Carnegie.  Mr.
Patterson was a Republican in politics, but never held an office.  He is
survived by six children:  William M. Patterson of Manorville, Armstrong
County, Samuel H. Patterson and J.G.Patterson of Carnegie, Mrs. John
Sheriff,  Mrs. George Perry, and Mrs. William Sheriff all of this city.
The funeral services will be held in the home of his son, J.G. Patterson
at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, and the interment will take place in
Uniondale Cemetery, Allegheny.

PIONEER OIL MAN CALLED BY DEATH
John Kerr Beatty, Consulting Superintendent of the Philadelphia Company
Passes away after long illness.  John Kerr Beatty, consulting
superintendent, and until recently general superintendent of the
Philadelphia company, and one of the most widely known natural gas
experts in the United States,
died at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning, after an illness of seven
months at his home, 122 Hutchinson Avenue, Edgewood Park.  Mr. Beatty
was born November 15, 1849 near Garretts Run, Armstrong County, the son
of William Waddell and Jane Patterson Beatty.  After an education in the
public schools, Mr. Beatty spent his early life in working in his
father's saw mills and boat yard near Manorville, on the Allegheny
River.  During the early days of the oil excitement in Clarion, Warren,
and McKean counties Mr. Beatty was attracted there and became identified
in various capacities with the oil industry, becoming a pioneer in the
natural gas business as superintendent of the Clarendon gas company, of
Clarendon, Pa., one of the first concerns to sell natural gas for
domestic purposes.  Mr. Beatty was a member of the Odd Fellows and
attended the Presbyterian church.  He was married to Miss Annie E.
Bailey, of Armstrong County who survives with the following children: 
Guy R. Beatty,  Dr. J. Edgar Beatty of Wilkinsburg,  Mrs. W. S. Downey,
of Pittsburgh,  Dr. John K. Beatty Jr. of Ford City,  Mrs. M.C. Wylie of
Pittsburgh,  H.K.Beatty and Miss Charlotte Beatty at home.  The funeral
services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the family
residence.  Interment will be in Woodlawn, Cemetery. (Note: Mr. John K.
Beatty was a cousin of S.H. Patterson.)

October 8, 1913
Dr. Hamilton Kelly Beatty aged 65, superintendent of the bureau of
sanitation, died at 6:35 a. m. today at his home, 220 West North Avenue,
Northside, after an illness of two weeks of pneumonia.  Dr. Beatty was
born near Kittanning and attended the public schools there.  When 16
years old, he enlisted in the Army and served three years in the Civil
War.  At the close of the war he returned home and then went to
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.  After graduating he began the
practice of medicine in Kittanning and in 1880 moved to Allegheny where
he began practicing.  He was appointed superintendent of the bureau of
health by Mayor Charles F. Kirschler and held that office until the
consolidation of the two cities.  He became deputy superintendent of that
bureau and when the health bureau was made a department he was made
superintendent of the bureau of sanitation.  He is survived by his widow,
Isabella Robinson Beatty and one brother, W.W. Beatty of Aspinwall.  Dr.
Beatty was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, Sixth avenue, a
member of Post 88 G.A.R., a member of Pittsburg Commandery No. 1, K.T.
and Syria temple. (Dr H.K. Beatty was a cousin of S.H. Patterson.)