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St. James Roman Catholic Church .- This was organized December 14, 1865. Rev. Andrew McGurgan was the first pastor. The church edifice was built under his pastorate. There is a small congregation. Rev. Frank Meyer is the present pastor.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Westfield was organized in 1880, by Mrs. Mary T. Burt of New York city. The first president was Mrs.
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Stowits, wife of the Rev. C. S. Stowits, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Westfield. In the early days of the organization these earnest women met every week, alternately, in the Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches to plan and pray for the overthrow of the liquor traffic. For seven years the meetings have been held in the Y. M. C. A. parlors which they still occupy. In the work of the National Union differentiated, of which the Westfield Union is auxiliary, there are many departments, and such lines of work are taken up by the local as are practical to this locality. Recognizing the necessity of primary temperance effort, and the elementary education of all classes in this work, they seek to lend every educational influence at com- mand to develope conviction and principle which will result, with the bless- ing of God, in the suppression of intemperance. While their creed embodies charity towards all as a fundamental principle, they advocate law for the tempter, and for the tempted, love and sympathy. Against high license as a remedy for the traffic in strong drink, they stand solidly opposed, believing it to be wrong in principle, and a failure in practice. Giving a legal right to do a moral wrong is abhorrent to a correct conception of Christian ethics as interpreted by the W. C. T. U. The Union is today, and has always been, a recognized factor for good in the community. Its present president, (December 1893) is Mrs. Pinney, wife of the Rev. P. P. Pinney, pastor of the Methodist church.
The Westfield Academy was chartered by the legislature May 5, 1837. Prior to this for several years schools were held in the basement of the old Presbyterian church, under the name of the Westfield academy. The first trustees were Joshua R. Babcock, Joel Bradley, Erastus Dean, Hon. Austin Smith, Hugh W. Lowry, Jonathan Cass, William H. Seward, James McCluirg, Gideon Goodrich, John N. Reynolds, William W. Cowden, Abram Dixon, Augustine U. Baldwin, Brown Blair and Samuel Budlong. August 3, 1837, Jonathan Cass was elected president, Hon. Austin Smith, secretary, and Joshua R. Babcock, treasurer. The academy building had previously been erected. The money was raised by subscription. Hon. John M. Keep (Hamilton college) was the first principal after the academy was chartered. He was succeeded in the spring of 1838 by Theodore Gay, A. M., (Middlebury college, Vt). Lorenzo Parsons, A. M., (Hamilton college) was his successor. The fourth principal was Rev. Alexander Montgomery who continued four years until the spring of 1845. J. E. Pillsbury, A. M., (Darmouth college), con- menced his duties in March, 1845, resigned June 12, 1851. April 5, 1847, the number of trustees was reduced to five, and May 25, 1847, G. W. Patterson, Josepli Tinney, John G. Hinkley, Lorenzo Parsons and Austin Smith were elected. In 1849 a primary department was established. . Mr. Pillsbury was succeeded by Edward W. Johnson (Middlebury college). He served as principal for over two years, then John C. Donaldson, A. M , (Hamilton college), was in service until
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1857, when Theodore Beard was principal for two years. 1859, S Gerard Nye ; 1860, Charles H. Brown (Brown University), 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865, John C. Long. 1865-1866 Charles E Lane. Mr. Lane was succeeded by Abram Brown (Dartmouth college) until the organization of the Union Free School, February 10, 1868, when Hon. Austin Smith was elected president of the board of education The Westfield academy was adopted, February 29, as the academical department of the Union school, and the building and grounds transferred to the board of education, on condition that the Union school assume the debts. Additional grounds were purchased, and the board immediately erected the present edifice at a cost of over $60,000. The Union school was formed from school districts, Nos. 1, 2, 7 and II, and the academy. Until the new building was completed, the academical depart- ment was under the management of Professors Mueller, Vrooman and Rolfe. In July, 1868, Mr. Stearns became principal. He resigned March 31, 1869. August, 1869, Prof. John' S Fosdick, a successful teacher in Buffalo, was appointed principal and held the position until June, 1878. 1878-1881, Henry A. Balcom ; 18SI to 1882, S. J. Somberger ; 1881-1882, Lewellen M. Glidden. P. K. Pattison was appointed in 1883 ; resigned in 1889.
Prof. Almon N. Taylor, B. L., the present principal is a native of Portland. He was educated at the University of Michigan. He commenced his labors as principal in 1889. Prof. Taylor is a natural teacher, imparts enthusiasm to his pupils, and his ability has accomplished much in securing high reputa- tion for the school, which has now between five and six hundred pupils.
Prof. George Fayette Dickson, great grandson of Robert Dickson, a pio- neer settler and one of the first board of common school commissioners elected for the old town of Portland (in 1814), is a son of Andrew W. and Amy C. (Hunt) Dickson and was born at Darien, Wisconsin, May 28, 1857. He was educated at Westfield Academy and Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts. He has been vice-principal for ten years and has the supervision of the Mathe- matical and Business Department, and has shown unusual ability in its man- agement.
Prof. Alanson Wedge, born in North Leverett, Mass., May 1, 1824, grad- uated from Brown University in 1848 and subsequently was engaged in the preparation of young men for college for forty successive years. Professor Wedge has taught in six states in the Union, and High Schools and Academies about twenty years in Chautauqua county. He was teacher in Greek and Latin and the Higher Mathematics in Westfield Academy for four years, and has fitted more boys for college than any other teacher in the county.
The Board of Education of Westfield Union School, through the gene- rosity of William Vorce and Joseph H. Plumb, are enabled to award two scholarships each year, the " Vorce Scholarship " and the " George E. Plumb Memorial Scholarship." Board of Education for 1893-4: H. C. Kingsbury,
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president, R. M. Mateer, clerk, J. A. Skinner, treasurer. A. E. Peirce, R. G. Wright, Byron Fenner, H. C. Kingsbury, Esq., Dr. T. D. Strong, W. R. Douglas, William Russell, Esq, Robert Shaw, R. M. Mateer. The board of education has shown itself keenly alive to every measure productive of good to the academy. Large sums of money have been spent for the school until its physical and astronomical apparatus, its library and books of reference are second to none in this section of the state.
The First National Bank of Westfield was the immediate successor of The Bank of Westfield, a state bank organized in 1848 by Sextus H. Hun- gerford, and was formed with a capital of $100,000, in July, 1864, opening its doors for business October 1, 1864. The first directors were Francis B. Brewer, Sextus H. Hungerford, Levi A. Skinner, Edward A. Skinner, John H. Minton, with F. B. Brewer, president ; L. A. Skinner, cashier ; E. A. Skinner, assistant cashier. In January, 1866, L. A Skinner was made vice- president, and E. A. Skimmer cashier. Charles P. Skinner succeeded Edward A. Skinner as cashier in July 1870. Levi A. Skinner was chosen president in January 1875, and E. A. Skinner vice-president. After the death of L. A. Skinner, April 12, 1876, Edward A. Skinner succeeded him as president. Jolin A. Skinner was made cashier in April 1884. The present officers are E. A. Skinner, president ; J. A. Skinner, vice-president ; Frank W. Crandall, cashier ; Grant S. Flagler, assistant cashier. The directors are Reuben G. Wright, William E. Wheeler, (of Portville, N. Y.), Edward A Skinner, F. W. Crandall, J. A. Skinner. The first charter expiring in 1884, the bank under its new organization changed its name to The National Bank of West- field. The brick block in which it is located was built by the bank.
Lorenzo F. and Augustus F. Phelps conducted a private bank for some years from 1871, which failed causing loss to its depositors.
NEWSPAPERS .- From 1826 to 1828 Harvey Newcomb published the Western Star. This was followed by the Chautauqua Phoenix, Hull & New- comb proprietors ; in 1831 this became The American Eagle issued by G. . IV. Newcomb until 1838 when G. W. Bliss changed it to the Westfield Courier, which had a brief life. The Westfield Lyceum, and Western Farmer and Repository, both established in 1835, had short lives. The l'est- field Advocate, commenced in May, 1841, had only a brief existence, while the Westfield Messenger, started in 1841, by C. J. J. & T. Ingersoll lived until 1851, when its new owner, E. W. Dennison, changed the name to the Westfield Transcript, which lived until 1857. Buck and Wilson published it the last year. The Western Argus was started in 1857 and the next year moved to Dunkirk. The Lake Shore Enterprise was brought here from North East in 1868, edited by S. O. Hayward, and was moved to Tonawanda
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in 1871. S. G. McEwen published a liberal and reform monthly, The Mes- senger, from 1876 to 1880 .*
The Westfield Republican, which claims the honor of being the first Republican paper of the state, was founded April 25, 1855, by M. C. Rice. March 8, 1873, Frank A. Hall purchased it. Joseph H. Hall was associated with him in the purchase and management for three months. Frank A. Hall sold the paper October 4, 1883, to Alfred E. Rose, who sold to Hugh W. Thompson in 1886. Mr. Thompson is a native of Westfield, was educated at Westfield academy, learned his trade in Mayville, and is conducting the Republican in a successful and satisfactory manner.
Summit Lodge, No. 219, F. & A. M. was brought from Mayville, April 29, 1852, the present charter bearing date June 11, 1851. The first officers at Westfield were Dexter Barnes, W. M .; W. W. Craft, S. W. ; Wm. A. Mayborne, J. W. ; W. W. Hawkins, Secretary, ; W. P. Holnes, Treasurer. It owns well fitted up lodge rooms at 13 and 14 Main street, and the officers in 1893 were G. F. Dickson, W. M .; F. R. Mosher, S. W. ; A. N. Taylor, J. W. ; F. P. Wolfe, Secretary, F. W. Johnston, Treasurer.
Westfield Council, No. 81, Royal Arcanum, was organized in April 1878. Its membership is over 100. Among its members are C. P. Ingersoll, chair- man of the financial committee of the Supreme Council, F. W. Crandall, chairman of the financial committee of the Grand Council of New York, and Edward A. Skinner, supreme treasurer of the order by annual election since 1880. The officers in 1893 were G. S. Flagler, Past Regent ; John R. Fay, Regent ; W. H. Walker, Secretary, J. M. Mateer, Treasurer.
William Sackett Post, No. 324, G. A. R., was organized December 13, 1883, with J. H. Towle, G. T. Jewett, Alex McDade, G. M. Rykert, P. W. Bemis, S. E. Bacon, E. A. Skinner, W. H. Rolph, Geo. Maurer, G. A. Isham, M. Atwater, J. S. Bohin, Charles Brown, D. H. Beadle, W. O. Case, Fred Fox, John H. Fry, H. Hanchett, Martin Harmon, G. A. Hopkins, D. E. Isham, H. 1. Knowlton, C. C. Lewis, J. J. Munson, H. Rimbach, C. J. Randall, J. 1 .. Smith, Fred Swartz, Joseph Stecher, Geo. Tate, Frank Volgstadt, Hor- ace Washburn, R. D. Vrooman, John Batchelder, Horace Burbee, Theodore Walters as charter members. The membership in 1893 was 43. The com- manders have been J. H. Towle, G. T. Jewett, P. W. Bemis, W. H. Walker, A. B. Hawkins, S. M. Hosier.
*Mr. McEwen was born in Hinesburg, Vt., received his education at common schools and at Potsdam Academy, N. Y., and taught district schools winters several years. He married Janette A. Higgins, and, in 1550, emigrated to this county ; came to Westfield in 1564, purchased and conducted a farm, and also worked as compositor for five years in the Republican office. While publishing The Messenger Mr. MCEwen did the work when he could spare time from other duties. When the "Union School" was established he was elected one of the board of education, and served nine years; he was the chairman of the library committee for five years, and had the charge of purchasing books ; he has served six years as corporation assessor. He has two sons living ; Osden S. and Charles E. Mr. McEwen rendered valuable aid in gathering material for this history of Westfield
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Westfield Lodge, No. 591, I. O. O. F., was organized U. D., dated Sep- tember 30, 1890, issued to John Hatsell, L. V. Gerrard, F. H. Baker, H. S. Preston, J. L. Waterman, Will Norton and Andrew Johnson, and was insti- tuted in October 1890, when 25 were initiated. The noble grands have been J. L. Waterman, S. M. Hosier, W. H. Kessler, J. G. Finlay, E. E. Wea- ver. January 16, 1892, " Odd Fellows Hall" was formally dedicated. In 1893 there were 108 members and 31 members of the encampment.
Chautauqua Postoffice, the first postoffice in the county, was established May 6, 1806, on the west side of the creek, Col. James McMahan postmaster. It continued until June 15, 1818, when Westfield postoffice on the east side of the creek was established, Fenn Deming, postmaster. His successors have been Orvis Nichols, Calvin Rumsey, William Sexton, Rev. H. W. Beers, Dr. L. M. Kenyon, David Mann, Byron Hall, F. C. Barger, W. E. Wheeler, Mrs. C. U. Drake, F. A. Hall, J. LaDue, W. H. Walker and David K. Fal- vay, who was appointed in 1894. He is a son of John and Hanora, (Keefe) Falvay, was born in Ripley in 1860. He was graduated from the Westfield Union School, June, 1881, and taught here ten years. He conducts real estate business, and life and accident insurance in this county and Erie county, Pa. He has been secretary of Summit Lodge, F. and A. M. four years, and is a correspondent of educational and other journals. He has been secretary for the past five years of the Democratic County Committee. In religious belief he is a Presbyterian.
LAWYERS .- Henry Clay Kingsbury was born in Homer, Cortland county, N. Y., Nov. 6, 1830. He prepared for college in Cortland Academy, (in Homer) and entered the sophomore class in Hamilton college in the fall of 1846, and graduated in 1849. He studied law in the office of Win. W. Northrop and was admitted to the bar in November 1851. He had charge of the law office of Kingsley & Graves in Cincinnatus until the spring of 1853, when in May of that year he located at Sherman and remained until March 1859, when he removed to Westfield where he has pursued his profes- sion. His son, C. A. Kingsbury, is also a lawyer.
Jerome LaDue, son of Joshua and Julia A. (Cowles) LaDue, was born in the town of Chautauqua, December 12, 1839. He read law with Henry C. Kingsbury of Westfield, and Jason Downer of Milwaukee, Wis., where he was admitted to the bar May 10, 1866. He has pursued his profession in Milwaukee, Winona, Minn., and.at Westfield where he located in 1870. He is engaged in real estate and insurance business and has been postmaster.
Silas W. Mason, son of Luther M. and Ann Mason, was born in Ellery, November 21, 1840. He was educated for his profession at the Albany Law University, was admitted to the bar in May, 1874, at Albany, and established himself at Westfield for the practice of law in June of the same year. He is a member of the society of Good Templars, is (November 1893) County
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Chief Templar, and a Free and Accepted Mason. In 1887 he was the pro- hibition candidate for Assembly in Chautauqua county, where the Prohibi- tion party casts about one thousand votes. In 1889 he was the prohibition nominee for judge of the Supreme Court of New York, and the next year was nominated for judge of the Court of Appeals. He married Amanda F., daughter of P'aul Persons, Jr., and Susan (McGill) Persons, of Westfield.
William Russell was born at Alfred, Allegany county, January 20, 1843. He read law at New Haven, Conn., and was graduated at Harvard Law School. He then resumed study in New York city and was admitted to practice in that city. He came to Westfield to locate as a lawyer in 1874 and is still in practice. He was married in 1869 to Mary C. Willey of Brooklyn.
Moses D. Tennant, the junior member of the firm of Smith & Tennant of Westfield, is the son of Deloss G. and Eliza S. Tennant, and was born in Ripley, December 3, 1849. Moses D. Tenant was educated at the Union School in Ripley, Westfield Academy, and Alfred University, Allegany county. He studied law with Austin Smith, and since his admission to the bar has been his law partner. Mr. Tennant married September 27, 1878, Helen E., daughter of Austin Smith.
Arthur B. Ottaway, son of John E. and Sarah B. Ottaway, was born in Mina, May 8, 1854. He was educated in Sherman and Westfield academies, studied law with William Russell of Westfield, was admitted to the bar in 1879. He has served as district attorney of the county.
PHYSICIANS .- Thomas Davis Strong, M. D., a prominent and well-known physician of Westfield, N. Y., was born in Pawlet, Vt., the son of Return and Laura Davis Strong, and is lineally descended from Elder Jolm Strong, early of Northampton, Mass. He fitted for college at Burr Seminary, Man- chester, Vt., and was graduated in 1848 from the University of Vermont. He attended medical lectures at Castleton Medical College, and at the medi- cal department of the University of Buffalo, from which school he was grad- uated in 1851 as M. D. He began practice at Westfield in 1851. May 25, 1852, he married Lucy M. Ainsworth of Williamstown, Vt., who died in April 1891. Dr. Strong was surgeon of the 68th Regiment of N. Y. S. M., and was with it in the Gettysburg campaign in 1863. He has been for 25 years a member of the board of education of Westfield Academy and Union School. He is president of the Jamestown board of pension examiners ; is a member of the American Academy of medicine ; is a member and has been president of the Chautauqua County and Lake Erie medical societies. He was one of the commissioners for locating the Insane Asylum at Buffalo. In 1889 he was chosen vice-president, and in 1893 president of " The New York State Medical Association."
George W. Seymour, M. D., physician and surgeon, son of Thomas W. and Matilda (Green) Seymour, was born at Chautauqua, December 13, 1841.
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He was educated at Mayville and Westfield academies, studied medicine with Dr. George A. Hall and Dr. Asa S. Couch at Westfield, received his medical degree at New York Homeopathic college, was graduated in 1872, succeeded the same year to the practice of Dr. Hall. He is a member of the Northi- western Homeopathic Society and of the New York Homeopathic Medical Society.
John M. Brown, M. D., a native of Colchester, Conn., born February 22, 1842, was educated at Aurora academy in Erie county, and was graduated in medicine at University of Buffalo in 1864. He was resident physician at Buffalo General Hospital nearly 18 months. In the fall of 1865 he located at Westfield.
Edgar Rood, M. D., son of Wilson and Sally (Chase) Rood, was born at . Charlotte, N. Y., May 30, 1852. He attended Fredonia Normal School and studied medicine with Dr. T. B. Walker of Cherry Creek. He attended medi- cal lectures at Buffalo Medical University and was graduated as M. D. in 1878. He commenced practice in Conewango, Cattaraugus county. About ISSo he removed to Cherry Creek and in the fall of 1890 located in West- field. In 1892 he connected Dr. William A. Putnam with him in practice. Dr. Rood belongs to the Chautauqua County Medical Society, and holds membership in Cherry Creek Lodge, No. 384, F. and A. M. Dr. Rood mar- ried November 25, 1878, Estella Wood of Shumla. They have 3 children.
Win. A. Putnam, M. D., son of Edwin and Harriet (Irons) Putnam, was born in Stockton (Cassadaga village) July 11, 1854. He was educated at Fredonia Normal School and received his medical education at the Univer- sity of Buffalo, where he was graduated as M. D., in 1884. He then began practice at Cassadaga, and in 1885 located at Smith's Mills. In October, 189i, he came to Westfield, and in 1892 formed a partnership with Dr. Rood. Is a member of Lake Erie Medical Society, (of which he was president in 1887) and Chautauqua County Medical Society. Is a member of Silver Lodge, No. 757, F. & A. M., Silver Creek, E. A. U. of Westfield, and Forest- ville Grange. Dr. Putnam married in 1878, Mary A., daughter of David H. and Clarissa (Edson) Ames of Charlotte. They have two children.
Walter Stuart, M. D., was born March 25, 1857, in Baraboo, Wis. He was educated in the common schools of Busti, studied medicine with Dr. Aaron Skinner at Ashville, and was graduated as M. D. from University of Buffalo in 1890 and located in Westfield.
Jolin David Davis, M. D., son of Willard and Laura I. (Bellows) Davis, was born at Cassadaga, June 4, 1861. He received his medical education at the University of Buffalo, and after a three years' course was graduated Feb- ruary 23, 1886. He was in Warren county Pa., for one year, then held the position of State Board of Health officer to the Cattaraugus Indian Reserva- tion. June 22, 1889, he came to Westfield, and has since been in active
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practice as a physician and surgeon. February 1, 1893, he was appointed surgeon to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad. Dr. Davis is a member of Chautauqua Medical Society and Erie County Medical Society.
J. C. Gifford a native of Ellery came to Westfield in 1852, and commenced the practice of dentistry in 1856.
John E. W. Bissell, D. D. S., a native of Owego, Tioga county, and of Massachusetts ancestry, was educated in the Jamestown public schools, studied dentistry in the office of Rawson, Lenox & Swetland, and was grad- uated from the Philadelphia Dental college in 1890, and at once located in Westfield.
SUPERVISORS .- 1829, Amos Atwater ; 1830, Jolin McWhorter ; 1831- 2-3, Amos Atwater ; 1834-5, Robert Cochran ; 1836-7, George Hall ; 1838, William Sexton ; 1839-40-1, Elijah Waters ; 1842, Thomas B. Campbell ; 1843, James Pratt ; 1844, Thomas B. Campbell ; 1845-6-7, John G. Hinck- ley ; 1848, Alvin Plumb ; 1849-50, Austin Smith ; 1851, George Hall ; 1852, Alvin Plumb ; 1853-4, Joshua R. Babcock ; 1855, John G. Hinckley ; 1856-7, William Vorce; 1858-9-60, George W. Patterson ; 1861-2-3-4-5-6, Sextus H. Hungerford ; 1867, George W. Patterson ; 1868-9, Francis B. Brewer ; 1870-1, Henry C. Kingsbury ; 1872-3-4-5-6-7-8-9, Francis B. Brewer ; 1880-1-2, Edward A. Skinner; 1883-4-5, E. H. Dickerman, 1886-7-8-9-90-1- 2-3-4, S. Fred Nixon.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
HON. GEORGE W. PATTERSON.
Hon. George W!'. Patterson * was born at Londonderry, N. H., Nov. 11, 1799, and died at Westfield, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1879. He was son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Wallace) Patterson, and grandson of Peter and Grisel (Wilson) Patterson of Londonderry, to which place Peter emigrated in 1737 from Bush Mills, County Antrim, Ireland. Peter was great-grandson of John Patterson, who came from Argyleshire, Scotland, to Bush Mills about 1612, with a colony of Scotch emigrants. He and his family were at the siege of Derry, where one of his sons died from starvation. The homestead at Bush Mills of this John passed from father to son for six generations. Of his des- cendants in the third and fourth generations, many of them came to Amer- ica with the Scotch-Irish emigrations. Gov. Patterson's ancestry were farni- ers, and most of them linen-weavers and dealers holding prominent local
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positions. They were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, strong in body and mind, able to defend themselves and their opinions. Hon. George W. Patterson was a ready speaker and writer, with a wonderful memory of facts and dates, brimful of anecdotes, ever cheerful, hoping and looking for the right to suc- ceed. He was of commanding presence (his weight being from two hundred to two hundred and twenty-five pounds), a particularly good presiding officer, which position he held two years as speaker of the Assembly, and two years as president of the Senate of New York. His services were always in demand as a speaker at political campaign meetings, Among the legislative meas- ures originated by him was the free banking law of New York, the original bill of which he drew, and which passed. The main provisions of the free banking laws of the United States, giving the people a secured currency under governmental supervision, were taken from the New York law. He closed his congressional term in his eightieth year, the year of his death. In politics he was Whig and a Republican. In business he was successful. Thurlow Weed, his political and personal friend fer over half-a-century, the eminent journalist and politician of New York, in an article in the New York Tribune, wrote : "All the elements and qualities which elevate and adorn human life were harmoniously blended in the character of George W. Patterson. His life was not only entirely blameless, but eminently useful. To those who knew him as I did no form of eulogium will be deemed inap- propriate. As a citizen, as the head of a family, and as a public servant, he was a model man. In the discharge of legislative duties he was conscien- tions and patriotic. He was always in his seat, and no bad, defective, equiv- ocal or suspicious bill ever evaded or escaped his vigilant and watchful eye. He had troops of friends, and, so far as I know or believe, was without an enemy. In private life he was exceptionally faultless. Without making a proclamation of temperance, he was always a cold-water drinker." His wife was Hannah W., daughter of John Dickey, Esq., merchant, of the West Par- ish, Londonderry. The last of his school education was had at the Pinker- ton Academy, Derry, the first printed catalogue of which institution showing his own and future wife's names. He was a school teacher at Pelham, N. H., in 1817, and in 1818 engaged in the manufacture of fanning-mills, in which business he was largely interested for twenty-six years, mostly at his shops on his farm, near Moscow, in the town of Leicester, Livingston county, N. Y. He resided there till 1841, when he removed to Westfield, N. Y., to take the agency of the Chautauqua land office as successor of Governor Seward, who succeeded the agent of the Holland Land Company at the Chautauqua office. When the lands became reduced by sales, Mr. Patterson bought the residue of lands and securities of the company, and continued the sales at the Westfield office till his death, when the title to the unsold lands passed to hiis only son. Mr. Patterson's only male descendant's son, grandson and great-grandson bear his name.
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