Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 153

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago
Publication date: [19-?]
Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1374

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years in Butte, Deer Lodge, Pioneer City and other places-mining, merchandising, prospecting and carrying on other business-he made a visit to his old Canadian home and spent the winter. He came west again in the spring of 1870 and located at Rocker City, where he worked at mining during the season, spending the winter at Deer Lodge. In January, 1871, he crossed the Coeur d'Alene mountains on his way to Walla-Walla. In going over Lake Pend d'Oreille on this trip he narrowly escaped losing his life. The lake was so stormy that the boat was not able to make more than two miles in twenty-four hours, and accomplished that with difficulty. As soon as the party reached a mail station they left their horses and joined the mail train. From Walla Walla they went up the Ya- kima river and purchased a flock of sheep, which they drove back to Montana and sold at Deer Lodge. The trip had been a hard one and the profits were scarcely sufficient to induce another of the same kind. Mr. Pattee therefore bought a ranch and a herd of cattle on Willow creek, and oc- cupied himself in ranching for about five years. He was successful at the business, and at the end of the five years went to Pony and spent the next two years in merchandising at that place, and the following twelve in the same business at Three Forks. His next. venture was at Great Falls, where he only remained four years, selling out and removing to Bozeman for the purpose of assisting lıis brother John in an extensive hardware business, which he was unable to attend to alone on account of failing health. He had come to Montana in 1879, and for a number of years engaged in ranch- ing and cattleraising in Gallatin valley; then sold out and opened the hardware store in Bozeman. His health failed and continually grew worse until 1899, when he sold his business, and on March 22, 1901, quietly passed away universally respected. After his death Mr. Pattee concluded to make Bozeman his home, and settled on his brother's homestead, about two miles from the city. He was married November 28, 1872, to Miss Nancy A. Handley, daughter of Michael Handley, who re- moved from Wisconsin to Montana, locating on Willow creek a number of years ago. They have four children : John D., who is ranching near Great Falls; Mary E., Charles D. and Paul D., who are all at home. Mr. Pattee served as county com- missioner in Madison county, and has been a mem- ber of the school board almost everywhere he has lived. He is recognized as a leading man and is highly esteemed.

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D AVID PATTERSON .- It has been frequently noted that Montana with its beautiful climate, its picturesque scenery and its inanifold induce- ments for industrial pursuits, maintains a srong hold on those who have ever tarried for any length of time within her borders, and this fact is signally emphasized in the case of Mr. Patterson, who was one of the pioneers of the state but severed his allegiance for a term of years, only to come again to this section of the Union and resume his identification with the great ranching industry of the commonwealth. The scenes and incidents of the early days are well established in his memory, and he also has full appreciation of the ultimate values which have come through development and prog- ress, while he is held in the highest esteem as one of the representative farmers and honored pioneers of Gallatin county. Mr. Patterson was born in Lick- ing county, Ohio, on August 12, 1828, and is a scion of old Colonial stock. His parents were Jesse and Frances (Drake) Patterson, the former of whom was born in Allegheny county, Pa., and the latter in Licking county, Ohio, where their mar- riage was solemnized. The paternal grandfather, John Patterson, was born in Scotland, whence he accompanied his father to America in the Colonial epoch, the latter being an active participant in the Revolution as a Continental soldier. Jesse Patter- son inherited the deep patriotism of his ancestor and gave valiant service in the second war with the mother country, that of 1812. He received his honorable discharge in what is now the capital city of Ohio, and this led to his locating in the buckeye state. He engaged in agriculture in Lick- ing county until 1845, when he removed to Illinois, locating near the Wisconsin line. After two years he moved into the Badger state, where he was identified with agricultural pursuits until his death. His wife died in the same state, they having become the parents of eight children, of whom three are living.

In the public schools of Ohio David Patterson received his early educational discipline, this prov- ing an adequate basis for the broad fund of knowledge which he has since attained by per- sonal application and by long years of identification with the practical affairs of life. He remained at the parental home until 1852, when he married, established a home of his own, and was engaged in farming in Wisconsin until 1854, when he removed to Iowa, where he secured a fine farm and con- tinued in the same vocation until 1864. Leaving

his family on the Iowa homestead, in that year he started on the overland trip to Montana, making the journey with an ox team and being a member of a quite large company of emigrants who thus trailed their way slowly through the long road to their destination in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. On the Powder river they had a brush with the Cheyenne Indians, two of the company being killed, while the attacking savages lost ten of their num- ber, being eventually repulsed. The train was cap- tained by Abner Townsend, who commanded with discretion and ability. They came up the North Platte river and thence by the Bridger cutoff to Virginia City, where they arrived on September 9, 1864. There Mr. Patterson remained about three months, after which he went to Last Chance gulch, then the most notable placer camp in the territory. The following spring he went to the Blackfeet diggings, where he engaged in mining with fair success, eventually disposing of his claim and proceeding by the old Mullan military road to Walla Walla, Wash., thence to Portland, Ore., and then by stage to San Francisco, where he embarked on a vessel bound for New York, taking the Pan- ama route. From the national metropolis he re- turned to Iowa, and there conducted farming and stockraising until 1885, with the exception of three years which he passed in Louisiana.

In 1885 he disposed of the Iowa homestead and returned to Montana, accompanied by his family. He came to Gallatin county, and finally effected the purchase of the June Saunders ranch property, located about five miles south of the village of Manhattan, which is his postoffice address. The ranch comprises 430 acres, is practically all under effective irrigation and equipped with excellent im- provements. Here Mr. Patterson has since given his attention principally to the raising of oats and barley, securing large annual yields. He is one of the honored and progressive citizens of the county, taking interest in the welfare of the state of his adoption and commanding the respect of all. In politics Mr. Patterson accords an unfaltering alle- giance to the Republican party, and while he was a resident of Iowa he served as justice of the peace, as school trustee and as a member of the board of county commissioners of Howard county for two terms of three years each. On December 31, 1859, Mr. Patterson was united in marriage to Miss Jen- nie M. Edwards, a native of the state of New York, as was also her father, Rufus Edwards, who re- moved thence to Lafayette county, Wis., becoming

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one of the pioneer farmers of that state, where he passed the remainder of his life. The maiden name of Mrs. Patterson's mother was Ruth Huestis, and she was likewise born in the Empire state. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards became the parents of two daugh- ters, Jennie M., the wife of Mr. Patterson, and Margaret A., who married Benjamin Johnson, of Lafayette county, Wis. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Patterson we enter brief record : Dora and Effie May are deceased; David H., a practicing physician, is individually mentioned in appending paragraphs; Ruth is the wife of Frederick Cham- berlain, of Howard county, Iowa; Rena is the wife of Henry Perks, of Manhattan, Mont .; Clarence, a farmer near Belgrade, Mont .; Charles S. and Harry C. are students in the Chicago (Ill.) Dental College, and Blanch W. and Jennie E., at home.

D AVID H. PATTERSON, M. D .- In the pre- ceding sketch will be found due information in regard to the ancestral history of this able young representative of the medical profession in Mon- tana, since he is the son of David Patterson. Dr. Fatterson is a native of Riceville, Iowa, born on September 9, 1864. Receiving his preliminary edu- cation in the public schools of his native state he attained manhood under the invigorating influence of the homestead farm. After leaving the public schools he continued his studies in the Breckenridge Institute at Decorah, Iowa, where he was grad- uated in the class of 1886 with high standing. In 1888 he matriculated in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, where he devoted his attention to technical study of the science of medicine and surgery, and in 1891 he became a student in Rush Medical College in the same city, one of the most celebrated institutions of the regular school of practice in the west. Here he was graduated in 1893, thoroughly equipped for the practice of his noble profession. After his graduation he returned to his home in Montana, opening an office in the thriving village of Manhattan, Gallatin county, where he has built up a fine practice of represent- ative character and extending over a wide radius of country. In politics he gives his support to the Democratic party, but gives no active attention to political affairs. On November 24, 1896, Dr. Pat- terson was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Weaver, who was born in Riceville, Iowa, the daughter of George Weaver, one of the represent-

ative citizens of that section. The Doctor and his wife are prominent in the social life of the com- munity and are held in high esteem.

Į ESSE PATTERSON came to Montana within the early pioneer epoch, has been prominently identified with the industrial activities of territory and state and is today one of the representative citizens of Jefferson county, where he is extensively engaged in stockgrowing. Mr. Patterson was born in Franklin county, Ohio, on February 7, 1837, the son of Jesse and Frances (Drake) Patterson, na- tives of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Patterson, was born in Penn- sylvania, of Scotch-Irish lineage and in an early day removed to Ohio, where he died about 1835. The maternal grandparents were David and Mary (Mehlig) Drake, likewise born in Pennsylvania. Jesse Patterson, Sr., was engaged in agriculture in Ohio until 1846, when he removed to Lafayette county, Wis., where he continued in the same voca- tion until his death, in March, 1855, his widow sur- viving until October, 1869. Thy had five sons and three daughters.

Jesse Patterson, Jr., remained on the homestead until 1867, receiving educational advantages in the public schools, and then went to Howard county, Iowa, and engaged in farming until 1864. He started for Montana on April 20, 1864, going up the Platte valley and by the Bozeman cutoff, the train having 450 persons and more than 150 teams. It was a union of two trains which met on the Dry fork of the Powder river and there organized with Abraham Townsend as captain of the outfit. At the main Powder river the train was attacked by about 300 Cheyenne Indians, the repulsing bat- tle continuing all day, entailing the loss of four men, while the estimated Indian loss was twelve killed, and the train was not again molested. It arrived at Virginia City on August 10, 1864.

Mr. Patterson in a few days went to Summit, where he passed the winter, and in the spring, with others, he went to the Blackfoot district, where they discovered Carpenter Bar diggings, which gave ex- cellent returns. At the close of the summer they disposed of the property and Mr. Patterson started with his family for California, making the trip with pack animals and having a pleasant journey. The next spring he purchased a stock of mer- chandise, returned to Montana, and opened a store

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in Jefferson City, where he was in business for one year, when he erected a saw mill and en- gaged in lumbering, being associated with Philip Sheehan until 1884, when Mr. Patterson sold his interests, and located, in Boulder valley, where he purchased the Jeffries ranch, and here he is now extensively engaged in stockraising, having added to his ranch until he has 360 acres. He usually winters about 400 head of cattle and a number of horses, and his place is one of the valuable stock ranches of the county. He still retains valuable mining interests, and is president of the company operating the Hoosier Boy mine, eight miles south of Boulder, a valuable property. In 1900 he was elected president of the bank at Boulder, a solid financial institution of which he has been vice- president for several years.

.Mr. Patterson is loyal to the Republican party, and in 1876 was nominated for representative of his county in the territorial legislature, receiving a large complimentary vote. In 1878 he was elected county commissioner and in 1892 he was again chosen to this office, serving for four years. He has always maintained a deep interest in edu- cational affairs, and has long served as a school trustee and he was also one of the commissioners of the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind. He is ever ready to lend his influence and tangible aid to the promotion of any worthy cause. On December 12, 1857, Mr. Patterson wedded Miss Martha Ellen Tolley, a native of Wisconsin, the daughter of James and Mary (Blackgraves) Tol- ley, both of whom were born in Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are the parents of four children, Mary Frances, wife of C. A. Darlinton, of Mad- ison county ; Alice Ellen, wife of P. H. Park, of Corbin, Jefferson county ; Frederick Summitt and William Henry.

AMES L. PATTERSON .- One of the repre- J sentative citizens of Gallatin county, and who is at the present time chairman of the board of county commissioners, Mr. Patterson may well take pride in tracing his lineage, in both the agnatic and cognatic lines, for it is of distinguished order and of long identification with American history. In the paternal line we must turn back to Vir- ginia, where was cradled so much of our national history and where true patrician life was in evi- dence during the old regime. There was born his

father, Lewis Patterson, and he was the son of Robert and Rhoda (Witt) Patterson, who be- longed to influential families of the Old Domin- ion. They removed to Tennessee about 1805 among the early pioneers, and there lived the residue of their lives, each passing away at the age of about eighty-two. Lewis Patterson accompanied his par- ents to Tennessee, where he passed the remainder of his life as an agriculturist, dying on the old homestead at seventy-two years. He married Miss Mary Pearson, a native of Tennessee, where she passed her life, dying at the age of sixty-six. She was the mother of thirteen children, eight are yet living, James L. having been the ninth in order of birth. Mary (Pearson) Patterson was the daughter of Jacob Pearson and wife, the former of whom was born in Germany, while his wife was of Scotch lineage. The father died in Iowa, where he went in 1844 as a government surveyor, and the death of the mother occurred in Tennessee.

On the old homestead in Hamilton county, Tenn., on March 24, 1843, was born James L. Patterson. Reared under the invigorating discipline of the farm, his rudimentary education was received in the home district school and this was supplemented by study in a local academy. About the time that he left the academy the dark cloud of civil war ob- scured the national horizon, and Mr. Patterson, be- ing loyal to the cause of the south and to the insti- tutions under whose influence he has been reared, enlisted for service in the Confederate army as a member of a company commanded by Capt. W. S. Greer, which was assigned to the First Tennessee Cavalry, J. E. Carter, colonel. He remained in the service for four years, and, save the few weeks he was incapacitated by typhoid fever at his home, he was ready for duty every day, though for the last fourteen months he was a prisoner, first at Rock Island, Ill., afterward being sent to Richmond, Va., on a parole, and there he was in the parole camp at the close of the war.

Peace returning he started for his home and there arrived on June 23, 1865. Soon afterward he went to Chattanooga, where for a short time he held a clerkship in a mercantile establishment, but soon became a partner by purchasing an interest, and the enterprise was conducted as W. C. Thatcher & Co., until 1870, when Mr. Patterson withdrew, disposed of his interests and removed to Alabama for about two years for the purpose of putting a farm which he there owned in proper order for sale, finally disposing of the property to good ad-

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vantage. He then, in 1872, removed to Missouri, locating in Springfield, where his brother John A. had previously taken up his residence, and there tor five months Mr. Patterson was deputy clerk of the district court. At the expiration of the time noted he started for Montana, coming by way of the Union Pacific to Corinne, Utah, and overland from there to Bozeman, where he arrived on July 23, 1872, and entered the employ of his brother-in- law, Nimrod Ford, who held the government con- tract to supply meat to Fort Ellis.

In 1873 Mr. Patterson took up his location on a tract of 160 acres of fine land in the Gallatin valley, which he purchased in 1875. It is located three and one-half miles southwest of Bozeman, and here he has since been prominently and suc- cessfully identified with agricultural interests. He now owns a farm of 880 acres, with the best of im- provements, including a commodious and attractive residence. The family pass the winter seasons in the city of Bozeman, and during the summer they usually are at the country estate, to whose super- vision Mr. Patterson's personal attention is given. Mr. Patterson has always been a stanch advocate of the Democratic party, and an active and efficient worker in its cause. In 1888 lie was elected county treasurer of Gallatin county; and he took up his residence in Bozeman and continued in the capable and discriminating administration of the county's finances until the expiration of his four-years term it. 1893, when he returned to his farm. In 1896 he was elected county commissioner, and upon the assembling of the board was made its chairman or president, in which capacity he has since served, being recognized as a careful and conservative of- ficial and one in whose hands the interests of the county are safely entrusted.

On January 29, 1868, in Chattanooga, Tenn .. Mr. Patterson was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor Wadsworth, who was born on February 9. 1848, in Jacksonville, Ala., the daughter of John and Sarah P. (Pope) Wadsworth, representatives of fine old southern families. They removed to Georgia when Mrs. Patterson was a child, and she was reared and educated in Rome, in that state.

Mrs. Patterson has a complete genealogical rec- ord from 1369. showing her descent from the Woden family of Saxony. Space forbids insertion of the complete record, but we append the following : Josiah Bartlett, a governor of New Hampshire and the second man to sign the Declaration of Inde- pendence, had a daughter Elizabeth who married

Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, born May 6, 1748, and died November 12, 1829. John Wadsworth was born in Plymouth, Mass., September 1, 1781, and died at Hiram, Maine, January 22, 1860. His son, Walter Wadsworth, was born March 5, 1801, at Hartford, Conn., and died November 5, 1875, at Decatur, Ga. He married September 10, 1821, at Spartansburg, S. C., Eleanor Spencer, born in 1803, at Vienna, Va., died August 23, 1830, at Decatur, Ga. Their son, John Wadsworth, the father of Mrs. Patterson, also born in Spartansburg, S. C., September 13, 1822, married Sarah Penelope Pope April 24, 1845, and died in New Orleans during a yellow fever epidemic in July, 1882. Sarah (Pope) Wadsworth was born December 13, 1823, and died August 23, 1896, at Attalla, Ala. Mrs. Patterson's grandmother, Eleanor Spencer, was the great-grand- daughter of Maj .- Gen. Joseph Spencer, of Revolu- tionary fame, who was ordered to Rhode Island on December 14, 1776, and during 1777 was in com- mand of the American forces.

To Mr. and Mrs. Patterson six children were born : all are living save one son, Arthur W., who died at the age of nineteen. He was a young man of noble character whose loss was deeply felt in the community, where his friends were in number as his acquaintances. The surviving children are Lucy W., wife of Frank Heiskell, who has one child, James Patterson. The other children, Miriuni G., Eleanor, Lois and Vida, are still at the parental home. The family are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, and occupy a prominent position in the social life of the com- munity, their home being a center of gracious hos- pitality.

H M. PATTERSON .- The useful passes away periodically to new uses. The beautiful re- mains a fixed standard of value by which the useful itself comes in time to measure the worth of its labors and products. What shall be said of the art which combines both in one product, making each subserve the other? Architecture is such an art. Its practitioners are public benefactors in more ways than one. They not only please the fancy, but provide comfort for the body and con- veniences which lessen labor and multiply its ef- ficiency. One of the most eminent artists of this craft is Henry Martin Patterson, of Butte, who was born at Savannah, Ohio, May 5, 1856, of Scotch ancestry with a lineage running back be-

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yond the memory of man. His father, John Pat- terson, was a native of Aberdeenshire in Scotland, who came to America in 1835, settled in New York and moved to Ohio in 1837. He was a carpenter and builder. His mother, Christiana (Lawson) Patterson, a native of the lowlands of Scotland, came over in 1837. They met and were married in this country, and had ten children, of whom Henry Martin was the seventh.

Henry M. Patterson was educated in the public schools of Ohio and Savannah Academy. He learned the carpenter's trade and worked at it in Ohio until 1881 and in that year he removed to Montana and located in Butte where he has since resided. He followed his original trade, and the business of contracting and building. In 1889 he opened an architect's office and since that time he has been busy in designing and erecting buildings for all kinds of public and private purposes. The monuments of his skill and taste are seen on every hand in his adopted city, and stand forth con- spicuously in other places. Among the creations of his architectural genius which challenge the admiration of all beholders, are the public library, Presbyterian church, Inter-Mountain building, Murray hospital, Mantle building, Will Clarke building, and Senator Clarke building, in Butte, Curtiss, Lynch & Major's building, Columbia Gar- dens pavilion, Clarke barn and many others. He was in charge of the construction of the Deer Lodge court house at Anaconda, and built the Bowes block in Butte which was destroyed by fire in 1889. He is acknowledged to be at the head of his profession in this part of the country, and as he is a progressive and studious devotee at its shrine, he is in no danger of losing his standing.

Mr. Patterson in church affiliations is a Presby- terian. In that church he is superintendent of the Sunday school and has been an elder since 1883. In politics he is a Republican. His father was an ardent abolitionist and his house was a station of the "Underground Railway" before the Civil war. Mr. Patterson is a member of the Montana Society of Engineers, and was the first architect admitted to that body. He has been twice married. His first wife, married in 1883, was Theresa Anna Scott, of Savannah, Ohio, who bore him twins, Charles and Bessie. They were born in 1886, and the mother died when they were a month old. In 1891 he was married to Miss Jeannette Williamson Andrews, of Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. Patterson is fond of athletic sports, particularly those which display high physi-

cal and intellectual development, such as baseball, of which he is an enthusiastic admirer and a liberal patron. He is much interested in Sunday school work, and has a prominent place in all state organi- zations in this department of church enterprise. In 1901 he was appointed to represent Montana in the national executive committee of the Sunday School Union. Both locally and generally he gives the Sun- day school cause the benefit of his best attention.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 153

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago Publication date: [19-?] Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1374

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago
Publication date: [19-?]
Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1374