BIO: Charles E. PATTON, Clearfield County, PA
 
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/

NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm
_____________________________________________________________

From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 963 & 964.
_____________________________________________________________ 

  CHARLES E. PATTON,* representative in congress from the Twenty-first district 
of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Cameron, Center, Clearfield and 
McKean, whose total population in 1910 was 192,704, was born in Curwensville, 
Clearfield county, Pa., July 5, 1859.  He still resides in that place.  He 
received his early education in the common schools of his native place and later 
attended Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport, Pa., and was married in 1883 to 
Mary R. Beggs, of Ebensburg, Pa.  He started in business as a dry goods 
merchant, but later branched out in various lines of business and won general 
success in all.  He is now identified with many of the most important business 
ventures of the community in which he resides, being stockholder and director in 
the Curwensville National Bank, president of the Curwensville Electric Company, 
interested in lumbering and contracting business, besides owning several fine 
farms, in which he takes an unusual interest, and his agricultural experiments 
have been of great benefit to the community.  He has held nearly every elective 
office in his own town; in the contest for Republican nomination for congress he 
defeated Hon. Lewis Emery, Jr., of Bradford, Pa., who four years ago was 
candidate for governor on the independent and Democratic tickets and was 
defeated by Gov. Stuart.  He carried the district by 1,355 over Emery; was 
elected to the Sixty-second congress, receiving a plurality over William C. 
Heinle, the Democratic nominee, of 4,953 votes, the largest plurality ever given 
for congress in the district.  Like his honored father, the late General John 
Patton, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Curwensville, and 
one of the official board.
  Mr. Patton is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, as well as a member of the Grange.  
Mr. and Mrs. Patton have four children, namely:  Emma Marguerite, wife of 
William K. Ewing, of San Antonio, Tex.; John W. Patton, and Misses Mary Rebecca 
Patton and Honora Jane Patton, of Curwensville.