McKean County PA Archives News.....PATTISON Family History Outline August 18, 1938
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  McKean County Democrat August 18, 1938
  McKean County Democrat, Thursday, August 18, 1938.
  Pattison Family History Outline.
  (The following article, written by Laura Field Tarr a great-granddaughter of 
  DeWayne Pattison, was read at the recent Patterson reunion.)
    The members of the Patterson family gathered here today are descendants of 
  Solomon Patterson and from letters and data in the possession of Mrs. Clara 
  Patterson, I am setting forth a few historical points, more or less for the 
  interest of the younger generation.
    We are told that the Patterson ancestors came to the British Isles from the 
  Scandinavian country and settled in Scotland, Ireland and England, which 
  perhaps accounts for the various ways of spelling the name: Paterson, 
  Patterson, the Scottish spelling and Pattison, the Irish spelling.
    One source of information states that three Patterson brothers sailed from 
  Scotland and after a long, eventful journey, landed in 1619 on the New Jersey 
  shore, at the site of the present town of Paterson.  Our information at 
  present ends at this point, and we do not know if they stayed or returned to 
  the home land.  So we will take up our story with Solomon Patterson.
    He was born in Ireland, Aug. 13, 1766, and married Anna Jewell Nov. 20, 
  1789, who was born in Scotland, Sept. 27, 1766.  We do not have at present any 
  information as to when they came to the United States.  They were the parents 
  of six daughters and two sons, Sylvester, born Aug. 3, 1787 and Ebenezer, born 
  Feb. 20, 1795.  
    Continuing our story from Ebenezer, we find that he married Nancy Brewer of 
  Genesee Co., N.Y., and moved to Potato Creek, McKean Co., Pa., in 1831.  Their 
  children were six daughters and six sons, five of whom were born in Genesee 
  county.  Of these children I will give brief sketches of Sylvester, DeWayne, 
  Stephen, Fayette and Francis.
    Sylvester was born in Genesee Co. N.Y., Nov. 3, 1822.  He came to McKean 
  county with his parents in 1831, and married Angelina Brockham in 1849.  They 
  lived on Pierce Brook where the August Hanner farm is now.  Later he went to 
  Ormsby on lumbering jobs.  Then this same occupation took him to Emporium.  
  Here he contracted getting out pine timber which was floated down the 
  Susquehanna River to the Philadelphia shipyards to be used for ship masts.  
  The site of this pioneer lumbering venture is known today as Patterson Draw.  
  Sylvester died in emporium when his son Leslie was abut twenty yeas of age.  
  Sylvesters children were Leslie, Esta, Ida and Millie, who lives in Smethport.
    DeWayne Pattison was born in Genesee county, N.Y., Feb. 18, 1828.  He came 
  to McKean county in 1831 and was married to Katherine Robinson on July 19, 
  1854.  They were the parents of seven daughters Nancy, Melissa, Eliza, Emma, 
  Lena, Mary and Mira, and one son, Albert.  Mira and Albert died when quite 
  young.  The older daughters married as follows: Nancy married Joseph Fields, 
  March 22, 1874, and died Feb. 9, 1933.  Melissa married Burton P. Hutchins, 
  and died in 1937.  Eliza married William Kimball.  Emma married George H. 
  Sparks, and is living in Hazelhurst .  Lena married Rev. Samuel Stoddard Feb. 
  21, 1905, and died Jan. 1, 1937.  Mary married Pitt M. Hutchins and is living 
  in Bradford.  DeWayne’s various occupations included farming on Marvin Creek, 
  keeping hotel at Larabee, later moving to Mt. Jewett.  He was the first 
  contractor to build roads for the State in this county.   He laid out and 
  built the road from Hazelhurst to Mt. Jewett and the road fro Mt. Jewett to 
  Kushequa, and the Mt. Jewett-Kane road.
    It is interesting to note that when the road from Hazelhurst to Mt. Jewett 
  was improved, the state followed the road as laid out by DeWayne, with two 
  exceptions, eliminating two bad curves, one just on the outskirts of 
  Hazelhurst and the other nearer Nt. Jewett.  The modern contractor, with his 
  modern machinery, was able to follow the original plans of the early road-
  builder, who with an eye for a good road and the future, had planned for these 
  eliminations and today’s improved highway follows it.  He was engaged in this 
  same occupation in Hazelhurst when he died.
    Stephen Patterson was born in McKean county, May 13, 1839.  He married 
  Caroline Hopkins and they were the parents of two sons, Edwin So., who now 
  lives in Hazelhurst and Eben C., who died May 19, 1931 in New Orleans, La., 
  and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Terry of Smethport, and Mrs. Belle Ray, 
  deceased.  They lived in Norwich township and then moved to Smethport.  
  Stephen served with distinction in the Civil War, and on returning home, moved 
  his family to a farm on Marvin Creek near Kasson.  Eben, a son of Stephen, 
  born in 1869, was a well known drilling expert and worked in the oil fields of 
  Peru, S.A., Burman, India, and Salvadore Republic, C.A.
    Fayette was born in McKean county, Aug. 16, 1842.  He enlisted in the Civil 
  War and returned home because of illness after a few months service.  Upon 
  recovering he went west to Wisconsin where he worked in lumbering camps.  He 
  married there and had one daughter, Ellen.  Francis and Fayette established 
  the western branches of the Patterson family.
    Francis Patterson was born in McKean county on Jan. 20, 1832.  He married 
  Armenia Cook, a school teacher, and they had five sons who obtained their 
  schooling from their mother.  The boys were named Elmer, Fred, Chester, Frank 
  and Herman.  Herman is the only son living and is the owner and publisher of a 
  country newspaper in South Dakota.  Francis and his family went from Potato 
  creek to Jefferson county and after one summer there, they went in a covered 
  wagon to Wisconsin where they cleared land for a farm on Knapp’s Creek.  They 
  left this place after seven years because there were no schools, and went to 
  Clear Lake, Iowa.  After a few years there they moved to South Dakota.  
  Francis, grandson Frank, is general manager of the Montgomery Ward Co., store 
  in Chicago.
    A sister of Francis and Fayette, Ellen, who was born Jan., 1847, married 
  David Comes, and went to Iowa Falls, Iowa.  After the death of her husband in 
  1877, she returned to Smethport and in 1884 she married Jacob Huffman.  Ellen 
  died in 1931, at the age of 84.  She had two sons and two daughters, Mrs. Alta 
  Ness, who died in 1936, and Miss Eva Hoffman of Smethport.
    An interesting fact to bring to your attention at this time is that the name 
  of Patterson is dying out in this section of the country, as the younger 
  generations of the family have only one male member each: Ansel Patterson and 
  his son, dale, who are descendants of Sylvester and his son, Leslie.
    
    
  
  
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