BIO: Patrick GRATTAN, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 454 & 455.
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  PATRICK GRATTAN, mine foreman at Morgan Run mine and the owner of four and 
one-half acres of land in Bigler Township, Clearfield County, Pa., together 
with three residence properties at Madera, is a well known and highly respected 
citizen of this section.  He was born at Bartley, in Bradford County, March 17, 
1871, and is a son of Bernard and Julia (Ague) Grattan.
  The parents of Mr. Grattan were born and married in Ireland.  They came to 
America in 1862 and the father first found work as a brick-layer and later as a 
miner and still later was engaged in a mercantile business at Madera, where 
both he and wife died, the former at Madera.  Mrs. Bernard Grattan died at 
Centerville, Elk county.  They were devoted members of the Catholic church.  
They had four children:  Patrick, Bernard, Thomas and Nora, the last named 
dying at Madera, Clearfield county, at the age of eleven years.
  Patrick Grattan attended the Catholic schools at Centerville, but not 
satisfied with the opportunities he could command here, he made arrangements 
with the International Correspondence School of Scranton, and continued a 
student with that organization for seven years and completed the course in 
mining.  In the meanwhile he learned all the practical details by personal 
experience, having started to work in the mines when he was only twelve years 
old.  He has been very enterprising, ambitious and persevering and has won his 
own way through his own efforts.  For the past six years he has been mine 
foreman, working first in this capacity for H. B. Swoope, afterward for H. B. 
Swoope & Co., and at present is with the Arctic Coal Company.  He took charge 
of the Betz mine March 16, 1911, as mine foreman for the Arctic Coal Company, 
H. B. Swoope, general manager.  He has worked under H. B. Swoope for the last 
nine years.  He is considered a well informed and thoroughly reliable mine man.
  Mr. Grattan was married December 26, 1893, to Miss Mary Murray, a daughter of 
Patrick and Bridget (Daugherty) Murray.  The parents of Mrs. Grattan were 
residents of Brisbin, Clearfield County, and her father was a coal miner.  They 
had the following children:  Mary, who is the wife of Mr. Grattan; Daniel and 
Hugh, both of whom are deceased; James; Rose, who is the wife of Daniel Murphy; 
Sarah, who is the wife of Bernard Carr; and Catherine, who is the wife of 
Robert Sturbord.  Mr. and Mrs. Grattan have six children:  Hugh, Leo, Murray, 
Bernice, May and Sarah.  The family belongs to the Catholic church.  Nominally 
Mr. Grattan is a Democrat but he is a man capable of doing his own thinking and 
frequently votes according to his own judgment.  He is a member of the A. O. H. 
at Houtzdale, Pa.