BIO: Dallas PATRICK, 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 729 & 730.
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  DALLAS PATRICK, general farmer, who has resided on his present home place in 
Bell township, for the past thirty-three years, is also an honored veteran of 
the great Civil war, to which he gave three years of his young manhood and 
suffered from many of its hazards.  He was born at Cherry Tree, Clearfield 
county, Pa., in 1846, and is a son of James and Eliza (Rummell) Patrick.
  James Patrick was a son of James Patrick, and was born in Ireland.  He was a 
child when his parents brought him to America.  He was reared in Lancaster and 
Cambria counties, Pa., and came from the latter county in 1839, settling near 
Cherry Tree, where he followed farming and lumbering during all his active life.  
His death occurred April 1, 1879, at the age of seventy-one years.  He married 
Eliza Rummell, who died in 1886, aged eighty-four years.
  Dallas Patrick had but meager school opportunities.  He gave his father help 
on the farm and also worked in the woods until the outbreak of the Civil war.  
He was only a stripling of sixteen years when, in September, 1861, he enlisted 
for service, entering Co. A, 11th Pa. Reserve Corps, Army of the Potomac, under 
General Meade.  Three years of the hardest kind of service followed.  At 
Spottsylvania Court House, he was wounded and again at Cold Harbor, in 1864, and 
on August 18, 1864, he was captured by the Confederates at the Weldon Railroad.  
He was one of the unfortunates who were compelled to spend six months of 
suffering in Libby Prison and at Belle Isle.  He was finally released and after 
his discharge returned home to Cherry Tree.  It was some time before he regained 
his strength that prison life had sapped but a good constitution conquered and 
in the course of time he went back to lumbering in which he has been 
considerably interested ever since.  From Indiana county he came to Bell 
township, Clearfield county, in 1889, and has resided here ever since.  He is 
well known all over this section.  He recalls old times in a very entertaining 
way and his stories of the early days in the lumber camps are exceedingly 
interesting.  He at one time made a record in hauling, while in Jefferson 
county, transporting at one time 1,100 pounds of hemlock bark.  It was an 
unusual feat and created much comment all through the lumber regions.
  Mr. Patrick was married October 29, 1873, to Miss Sarah A. Weaver, who was 
born October 6, 1848, in Jefferson county, Pa., a daughter of Jesse and Mary Ann 
(Magee) Weaver.  The father of Mrs. Patrick died in 1901, aged seventy-one 
years, and the mother in 1882.  Mr. and Mrs. Patrick have seven children, 
namely:  Harry A., who was born January 29, 1875, resides at home; Mary Ann, who 
was born August 22, 1877, is the wife of D. B. Dunlap, of Blairsville, Pa., and 
they have four children; John Franklin, who was born May 2, 1881, lives at 
Blairsville, married Elizabeth Connell, and they have one child; Bessie 
Gertrude, who was born January 24, 1884, is the wife of H. N. Kerr, of 
Blairsville, and they have two children:  Elsie Maria, who was born June 23, 
1886, is the wife of Frank P. Beatty, of Blairsville; Elizabeth Nell, who was 
born July 8, 1889, is a graduate of the Normal School at Burnside, and is a 
successful teacher; and Frances Jeanette, who was born September 25, 1896, is a 
student.  Mrs. Patrick taught school nine terms before her marriage.  She is a 
member of the M. P. church at Newtonburg.  Mr. Patrick is a Democrat at present 
in his political attitude.  He recalls the great interest he took during slavery 
days, being then in close sympathy with the Abolition movement although only a 
boy at the time.  He is a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being 
identified with the post at Altoona, Pa.  He has served three terms as a member 
of the Bell township school board and has always taken a good citizen's interest 
in the welfare of his section.