BIO: Joseph Wheeler Patton, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

389  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  JOSEPH WHEELER PATTON (deceased) was born at Bellefonte, Penn., 
December 22, 1803, the second child of three sons and two daughters, of 
Benjamin and Phoebe Patton.  When a young man, Mr. Patton came to 
Harrisburg, and first clerked for Mr. Haldeman, an iron merchant, and 
later for a Mr. Espy, a dry goods merchant.  Subsequently he rented the 
Mary Ann Furnace, located near Shippensburg with which he was 
identified until 1835, when he became superintendent of the Lancaster 
Railway, a position he held for six months, when he went to Maria 
Furnace in Adams County, Penn., where he was engaged in clerking for a 
short time, when he received, at the hands of Gov. Ritner, the 
appointment of superintendent of the Portage Railway, which he filled 
two years, residing at Carlisle, where he subsequently kept the Mansion 
House; thereafter went to Mount Holly Furnace of which he was manager 
for Robert Givin.  Later he and Mr. Mullin bought the Mount Holly 
Springs Hotel, from which Mr. Patton retired in two years, returned to 
Carlisle, and kept the Mansion House, with the exception of a short 
time, until the war.  He was then appointed provost-marshal under Col. 
R. M. Henderson.  He also served as collector of internal revenue for 
the fifteenth district of Pennsylvania for three or four years, after 
which he retired from active life.  His death

390  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

occurred October 30, 1880, and thereby the people of Cumberland County 
lost one of their prominent and useful citizens.  Mr. Patton married, 
December 2, 1834, Miss Mary Noble, of Carlisle, who was born in the old 
Mansion House, Carlisle, March 12, 1814, a daughter of James Noble, who 
was born in Ireland, in December, 1775, and who at the age of twenty 
years came to America with his father, John Noble, who settled in 
Carlisle.  James Noble married Miss Mary Cooper, of Carlisle.  To the 
marriage of Joseph W. Patton and Mary Noble one child (deceased) was 
born.  The widow is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, of which 
Mr. Patton was treasurer for sixteen years, until his death.