F. B. Patterson Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Page 713

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JUDGE F. B. PATTERSON, county judge of Potter county, with residence at 
Gettysburg, has a large acquaintance in South Dakota. He is yet a young 
man, but has reached a station in life which is creditable to any man, 
of more mature years. He is a gentleman of sound reason and unbiased 
mind, and his judgment is sought and advice heeded. He takes an active 
interest in the welfare of those around him, and ably conducts his 
office, dealing justice to every man according as is his need. He is 
interested in farming lands and real estate, and has built for himself 
a remunerative practice, and a recognized name in his profession. 

Judge Patterson was born in Smethport, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1864. 
The family has been in America several generations, and he is the son 
of F. M. and Armenia (Cook) Patterson. 

Our subject was the third in a family of five children, and received a 
liberal education, graduating from Lenox College, Iowa, in 1885. He 
attended Union College of Law at Chicago, graduating in 1888, and for a 
short time was engaged in the practice of his profession in that city. 
He went to Pierre, Dakota, in 1889, moving to Gettysburg in 1892, where 
he has practiced law since. He purchased the "Potter County News," in 
1897. This sheet is a weekly paper and was established as a Democratic 
organ in 1894 by Eales & Williams. He changed its political affiliation 
to the Republican party, and it is a bright, newsy, prosperous paper. 
Mr. Patterson was married in 1891 to Miss Maude Medbery. Mrs. Patterson 
was born and raised in Wisconsin and went to Dakota with her parents, 
who were among the first settlers in Potter county. She is a lady of 
refinement and well educated. 

Mr. Patterson was chairman of the Republican county central committee 
during the 1896 presidential campaign, and was elected county judge the 
same year, though the county politically was against him, and his 
popularity and the manner in which he conducts his official affairs are 
best evidenced by his second election, in 1898, overcoming an adverse 
majority of over one hundred. He is a gentleman of dignified demeanor, 
and is one of the rising men of South Dakota. In political faith he is 
a Republican.