MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Hon. James M. Patterson
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HON. JAMES M. PATTERSON, M. D., a leading physician of Marshall County, is
a son of James and Mary (Reed) Patterson, born in South and North Carolina
in 1794 and 1791, respectively.  They were brought to this State when
children, and after reaching years of maturity were
married in 1818, and became the parents of nine children.  They resided in
Maury County until 1833, and then came to Marshall County, where the father
carried on farming and stock raising  on a rather extensive plan.  The
father was a Whig, and served as magistrate many years.  He
died in 1875, and his wife the year previous.  James M. Patterson was born
in Maury County, January 8, 1829, and secured a good early education.  At
the age of twenty-four he began the study of medicine under Dr. S. J. Rice,
and about two years later entered the medical
department of the University of Nashville, from which he graduated in 1858,
among the first in his class.  He began practicing in Maury County, and
during the war was part of the time engaged as physician and surgeon.  In
1860 he married Margaret S. Hardison, who was born November
10, 1836, and ten children were born to their union.  Dr. Patterson is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife of the
Christian Church.  He was a Whig previous to the war, but has since been a
Democrat.  In 1870 he represented Bedford and Marshall Counties
in the State Senate, and filled that position very ably.  He came to
Marshall County in 1864, where he has followed his profession, and also
farmed for twenty-two years.

Surnames: Hardison, Patterson, Reed, Rice
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."