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JOSEPH EMMETT, fifth child and third son of Chester and Mary Ann (Elliott) Patterson, was born in Union, New York, August 22, 1838. He was reared on the Patterson farm at Newark Valley, and received his early education in the public schools. He began business life on his own account at eighteen years of age by renting and operating a farm. He succeeded and kept adding farm after farm until at the age of twenty-two he had nine farms under his control and management, in addition to a lumber business of some magnitude. Feeling the need of a better education, he placed himself under private tutors for the next two years, after which he took a business course at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Before entering the college he disposed of his New- ark Valley interests, and on leaving he went to Pittston, Pennsylvania, where he
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entered the employ of the late John Loveland, then an extensive lumber dealer. After three months in his employ Mr. Loveland offered him a part- nership and loaned him the amount of money he lacked to complete the purchase of a one-third interest in the business. The firm expanded, and when they opened a lumber yard in Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Patterson had a half interest in that and in the manufacturing plant they established. Later they moved their saw mill to the Redout Common on River street, where the court house now stands, and milled lumber there for many years, the logs being brought down the river and canal. When Mr. Loveland's health failed he asked Mr. Patterson to take a full half interest in the Pittston plant, and to conduct the entire business under the firm name of J. E. Patterson and Company which he did. At this time the large planing mill and factory at Pittston was built. Mr. Loveland's will stipu- lated that his executors should continue the business just as before his death, which they did for seventeen years, when Mr. Patterson purchased from the Loveland estate their individual one-half interest in the business, now the most extensive of any lumber firm in the Wyoming Valley. Mr. Patterson has other and varied business interests. He is largely interested in the wholesale grocery business of the Crocker Grocery Company, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was one of the organizers and owners of the Easton Lime Company of Easton, Pennsylvania, and of the Masons' Supply Company of the same city. He also is interested in coal, and was a director of the Colorado Yule Marble Company, with quarries at Marble, Colorado. Mr. Patterson founded the beautiful summer resort on top of Nescopec Mountain, known as "Glen Summit Springs". He discovered the Glen Summit Spring and introduced the water from this famous spring into general use. Mr. Patterson conducts all of his business enterprises on a purely independent basis. He is a member of the Employers' Association, that recognizes no union unless conducted on legal lines, and employs his men solely on their merits. In defense of this vital principle he has spent thousands of dollars and fought some bitter contests with the strong union organization but finally won the victory for independence and perfect freedom, as did his fore- fathers of Colonial and Revolutionary times. Mr. Patterson is a perfect example of a selfmade man and has demonstrated what it is possible for a clean living, clean-thinking man to accomplish by careful, conservative, upright, ener- getic endeavor.
Joseph Emmett Patterson married, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1865, Julia Frances Burnet, born in Coxsackie, New York, October 30, 1841, daughter of Theron and Harriet (Packer) Burnet; she died June 2, 1907. Mr. Patterson has two daughters; his only son died when a child; all were born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: 1. Helen Harriet, born September 6, 1869; mar- ried, August 30, 1904, Benjamin Franklin Myers, born in Sylvis, Clearfield coun- ty, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1863, son of John Henry and Jane (Westover) Myers. 2. Eva Mary, born March 9, 1872; married, October 12, 1897, Robert Hervey Cabell, Jr., born December 1, 1866, in Brunswick, Missouri, son of Dr. Robert Hervey Cabell; they have a daughter, Helen Patterson Cabell, born in Chicago, Illinois, February 19, 1899, and a son, Joseph Patterson Cabell, born in Evanston, Illinois, May 8, 1901. 3. Bruce Loveland, born January 13, 1875, and died April 30, 1881.
Mrs. Patterson was a devoted member of the First Methodist Episcopal
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Church and a teacher in the Sunday school for fifty-two years. She was largely engaged in charitable and church work, and was one of the founders of the Home for Homeless Women, and was a member of and interested in the Young Woman's Christian Association of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
POWELL EVANS
The paternal ancestors of Powel Evans, of Philadelphia, came from Rhydwil- fan, Caermarthonshire, Wales, in 1710, and affiliated with Welsh Tract Baptist Church, in Pencader Hundred, New Castle county, now the State of Delaware. This ancient Baptist church was organized in the spring of 1701 by a little com- pany of Welsh Baptists in the counties of Pembroke and Caermarthon, who hav- ing decided to emigrate to America, and one of them, Thomas Griffith, being a minister of that sect, they decided to form themselves into a church before embark- ing. The little colony consisting of sixteen persons embarked for Pennsylvania in the ship "James and Mary", June, 1701, and landed at Philadelphia, Septem- ber 8 of the same year. Not having, as was common with most of the early Pennsylvania emigrants, purchased land of Penn before embarking to the Prov- ince, they located among their brethren of the Pennypack Baptist Church, and remained in Philadelphia county until early in 1703, maintaining however their initial organization. Here a number of others were added to their membership, some of them recent arrivals from Wales, but mostly converts from other denom- inations among earlier settlers in that vicinity and in Bucks county.
In 1703 the congregation of this church secured a large part of a tract of land laid out to two Welsh emigrants in Pencader Hundred, in New Castle county, and removing thence in a body built on a promontory known as Iron Hill, near the present town of Newark, Delaware, a little meeting house. The church there established proved the nucleus of a large and important settlement of Welsh immi- grants, and numerous other churches in that and other neighborhoods had their origin in this mother church, the first Baptist church south of Mason and Dixons Line. Among the offspring of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, as it came to be known after its location in Pencader Hundred, were, the London Tract, Duck Creek, Wilmington, Cow Marsh, Mispillion, and Pedee, (South Carolina) Bap- tist churches. (Pa. Hist. Mag. IX-61, etc., Del. Hist. Soc. "Records of Welsh Tract"; "Nathaniel Evans and His Descendants," Evans; "History of Old Cheraws," Gregg.)
At Welsh Tract they were joined at different periods by considerable additions from Pembrokeshire and other points in Wales. In 1710, among a considerable party of Baptists from Rhydwillan, Caermarthonshire, who brought letters to Welsh Tract Baptist Church, were several of the name of Evans, one of whom, Thomas Evans, was a brother to the ancestor of the subject of this sketch.
JOHN EVANS, probably accompanied his brother Thomas and other relatives from Rhydwillan, County Caermarthon, Wales, to New Castle county, in 1710, but was not baptized member of the Baptist church before his immigration from Wales. John and Lydia Evans were baptized as members of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, and their names appear on the list of those who signed the Con- fession of Faith, read February 4, 1716, among the earliest signers. Another John Evans signed in 1712. He died in 1717, leaving a will of which he made
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his brother, Thomas Evans, executor, and left legacies to his four sons of whom Nathaniel Evans was one.
It is possible that Thomas Evans, the emigrant, was the father and not the brother of John Evans, the testator of 1717, the executor being another son of the emigrant, since we find on the list of "Those Removed from us by Death" on the records of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, under date of "Imo, 1714" the name of "Thomas Efans". No age being given, it is impossible to determine whether he was the emigrant, but since he was a member of the congregation, the list pur- porting to be that of deceased communicants, the inference would be that he was the Thomas Evans who united with the church four years before by letter from Rhydwillan, Caermarthonshire.
NATHANIEL EVANS, son of John Evans, was baptized at Welsh Tract Baptist Church, (of course as an adult) October 2, 1735. In November, 1735, Abel Mor- gan, "teaching elder", Thomas Evans, deacon, James James, ruling elder, and nine- teen others, including Nathaniel Evans and Annie Evans, "are removed to Carolina, and was recommended by a letter to ye Church of Christ in Charles Town or elsewhere in South Carolina, or they might constitute themselves into a Church." This was the founding of the colony of Welsh Baptists on the Pedee river in South Carolina, where the above named persons from Welsh Tract Church formed a church known as "the Church on the Pedee." In 1736 "our brother Samuel Evan and his wife Mary Ann Evan was recommended unto our Christian friends on Pedee in South Carolina", so we find from the records of the Welsh Tract Church, and several others followed in the years 1737-38-39, among them being John Jones and Ann his wife, recommended to Pedee by letter dated March II, 1738. Lydia Evans was buried at Welsh Tract, Pencader Hundred, New Castle county, December 25, 1735; "John Evans, Elder," April 16, 1738; another John Evans on April 28, 1740, and Mary, wife of John Evans, Jr., on August 21, 172I.
Nathaniel Evans purchased large tracts of land on the Pedee in South Caro- lina, receiving by patents dated from 1743 to 1772 at least an aggregate of 1100 acres, much of which lying in Marion District, is still owned by his descendants. He died prior to the Revolution, at a date not definitely known, further than that he was living in 1772.
Nathaniel Evans married Ruth Jones, of a family that removed with or followed him to the Pedee from New Castle county, and they had children :- David, Margaret, Thomas and Nathan or Nathaniel, David Evans, the eld- est son, born in Craven county, South Carolina, about 1745, was a captain of Rangers and served throughout the Revolutionary War. He lost a leg by a cannon shot at the siege of Savannah, while serving under General Nathaniel Greene. Margaret Evans married Major William Baker, a distinguished offi- cer in the Continental Army, from Newbern, North Carolina, and a man of much prominence in public affairs there.
NATHANIEL EVANS, youngest son of Nathaniel and Ruth (Jones) Evans, was born near the present site of Marion village, then Craven (now Marion) county, South Carolina, about the year 1760. Long before attaining his major- ity he marched with his elder brothers to the defense of the patriot cause, under the intrepid Colonel Waters, and was one of Marion's trusted lieutenants throughout the rapacious and intercine strife that marked the Revolutionary
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struggle in the Carolinas, where Tarleton and Rawdon, with their Tory refugees, not only incited the bitterest partisan struggles, but with fire and sword determ- ined to crush out the heroic patriots who had pledged their all to the State. It is a fact that the Southern soldiers of the Revolution under Sumter, Marion, Pickens and others, fought as many battles in their own section as the soldiers of Washington's army in all the other colonies. Nathaniel Evans served as a private under Colonel Waters in the siege of Charleston, and after its fall is enrolled in 1778 in the company of Captain Anderson Thomas, and was paid on April 14, 1785, by State order, for services rendered in 1778, in Colonel Water's regiment. He died on his plantation on Cat Fish Creek, in 1810.
Nathaniel Evans married, in 1788, Edith Godbold, daughter of Thomas God- bold, of Liberty District, now Marion county, and his wife Martha Herron, and granddaughter of John Godbold, a native of Suffolk or Kent county, England, who settled on the Pedee about 1735 with his wife, Elizabeth McGurney. He had been an officer in the English navy, in the West India service prior to 1735, and was drowned on his plantation near the present town of Marion, South Car- olina, in 1765, at the age of one hundred and one years. His son, Thomas God- bold, died at Marion, Marion county, South Carolina, in 1825. A son, Stephen Godbold, brother to Edith (Godbold) Evans, fought under Marion in the Revolu- tionary Was as a lieutenant and captain. Edith (Godbold) Evans died after the birth of her two sons Thomas and Asa, the latter of whom died in infancy. Na- thaniel Evans married (second) a Miss Fore, who survived but a few years, and he married (third) Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Captain Lot Rogers, who came to the Carolinas from Virginia, and was a distinguished patriot during the Rev- olutionary War. The will of Nathaniel Evans, of the District of Marion, dated in 1810, proved May 23, 1810, provides for his wife Elizabeth, and devises to his eldest son Thomas 200 acres of land purchased of his brother Thomas; gives legacies to his daughters, Edith, Zilpha and Elizabeth Ann, and sons, William, Nathan and John Gamewell Evans. The two daughters Edith and Zilpha were by his second wife; they married respectively Colonel Levi Leg- gett, and Robert James Gregg.
THOMAS EVANS, eldest son of Nathaniel, and only surviving son of the first wife, Edith Godbold, was born on his father's plantation near the village of Marion, South Carolina, September 3, 1790. He acquired a liberal education, and being a great reader added thereto by his own exertions after reaching years of manhood. During his early life he engaged in mercantile pursuits and later became an extensive cultivator of cotton. He was a man of note in his day, taking an active part in public affairs. He was State Senator from his district from 1832 to 1840, and Master in Equity for his native county from 1841 to his death in 1845. He also filled the position of Presidential elector for Monroe in 1816, and for Jackson in 1828. His residence in Marion village, originally built for a courthouse, still stands on the public square south of the present court house. He died at "Tranquility," the family home of his wife's family in Granville county, North Carolina, August 9, 1845.
Thomas Evans married, April 11, 1816, Jane Beverly Daniel, born January 29. 1795, who was killed by a piece of timber falling from the roof of her resi- dence undergoing repairs, September 3, 1861. She was a daughter of George and Martha (Daniel) Daniel, and a descendant of a family seated at Wigan,
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Lancashire, England, whose armorial bearings were: Arg. a pale fusily sa., with crest, a unicorn's head erased ar. armed or.
Captain William Daniel, the founder of the Daniel family of Virginia, many members of which have achieved distinction, was born at Wigan, Lancashire, in 1623. He was a soldier in the royal army during the civil wars, and came to Virginia on the downfall of the monarchy. He was a vestryman of Mid- dlesex parish, Middlesex county, Virginia, in 1684, and died there in 1698. (Vir- ginia Genealogies, Heyden.)
James Daniel, grandson of Captain William Daniel and great-grandfather of Jane Beverly (Daniel) Evans, was born about the year 1700. He was a jus- tice in Goochland county, Virginia, 1737 to 1743, and sheriff of that county 1743-4. He later removed to Albemarle county, Virginia, where he filled the office of local magistrate 1754-5, and was sheriff in 1756. His will was pro- bated in the latter county February 12, 1761. He married in 1736, Elizabeth Woodson, great-granddaughter of Dr. John Woodson, of Dorsetshire, England, "Chireogeon" and wife Sarah, mentioned in the "Original Lists of Persons of Quality" (Hotten, p. 216) as living in Henrico County in 1619. Their eldest son, Chesley Daniel, married Judith Christian, of Albermarle county, Vir- ginia, a daughter of the distinguished family of Virginia Cavaliers who fled England during the Commonwealth and appeared in Middlesex county, Vir- ginia, as early as 1656. These Christians were the lineal descendants of the Christian family, (W. & M. Quar. V, 261, VIII, 70.) residuary Deemsters of the Isle of Mann. Chesley Daniel crossed the line into the old county of Granville, in North Carolina, and in 1740 built his country seat "Tranquility", named similarly with the seat of Colonel Peter. Vivian Daniel, of Middlesex coun- ty, Virginia, for an ancestoral seat in England. This property is still in the Daniel family. Chesley Daniel's daughter Martha, married her second cousin George Daniel, of Granville county, North Carolina, and Jane Beverly Daniel was the first daughter of the latter marriage. She was a woman of estimable character and marked business ability. On the death of her husband Thomas Evans in 1845, she took charge of his heavily involved estate and managed it with eminent success. Her sons were educated in the best American Colleges and her unlimited hospitality was a by-word in all the Pedee region, while her piety was of the purest kind. She had a family of thirteen chil- dren. Her eldest son, Hon. Chesley D. Evans, was a graduate of the South Carolina College and a member of the Secession Convention of 1860 in South Carolina, signing the Ordinance of Secession; Thomas was United States District Attorney for South Carolina in 1844; Nathan George was graduate of United States Military Academy and a Brigadier-General in Confederate States America, commanding Confederate forces at Battle of Ball's Bluff, campaign of 1861-62; William E. was a graduate United States Naval Academy and served under Admiral Porter, later attained rank of Commander Confederate States Navy, served under Raphael Semmes, Confederate States ship "Alabama," later commanded Confederate States ship "Georgia". Captain A. L. Evans served throughout the war between the states, as Adjutant of Brig- ade and was later clerk of the State Senate of South Carolina.
JAMES EVANS, M. D., eighth child of Thomas and Jane Beverly (Daniel ) Evans, was born in the village of Marion, South Carolina, September 12.
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1831. He received his early education at Marion Academy, and at the age of seventeen entered the South Carolina Military Academy, class of 1853. Owing to serious disputes and dissensions in the faculty of the college, he left that institution before completing his course, and joined an engineering corps in charge of the construction of the Cheraw & Darlington railroad, from the head of navigation on the Pedee river. At its completion he went to Carroll county, Mississippi, and after teaching school for a short period he assisted as a civil engineer in building the Little Rock and Napoleon, now the New Or- leans and Mississippi railroad. In 1856 he was appointed by the Governor of Arkansas, State Civil Engineer, and in that capacity had charge of the build- ing of all the great levees along the Mississippi, Arkansas and Red rivers in that State. He was living along the Mississippi river during the period when that region was visited by the terrible scourge of yellow fever in 1856-57, and with two Catholic priests assisted in nursing the victims of that dread disease.
In the spring of 1859, James Evans came to Philadelphia and entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and received private instruction under the eminent Dr. Pepper, the elder, and Dr. J. M. DaCosta. He graduated in the spring of 1861 and went to New York with the intention of sailing for Europe to complete his medical education in the great universities and hospitals of London, Paris and Berlin. Before his embarkation, however, the news of the firing on Fort Sumter reached him, and he hastened south to enlist under the banner of his native State of South Carolina. He took part as a vol- unteer in the first battle of Manassas, and after the battle was placed in charge of the division hospital at Leesburg, Virginia, where he met and fell in love with Miss Powell, who four years later became his wife. He was however soon detached for duty as assistant surgeon to Dr. Fred. Giddings, at an hospital established at Adams' Run, South Carolina. While on duty there he suffered a severe attack of hemorrhagic fever, but on his recovery, returned to Virginia to fill an appoint- ment as Regimental Surgeon with the rank of major, to the Third South Caro- lina Regiment of Volunteers, Colonel James Nance, Kershaw's Brigade, McLaw's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. With this regiment he shared the arduous campaigns of the remainder of the war.
On January 4, 1865, Dr. Evans married Maria Antoinette Powell, of Lees- burg, Virginia, at the home of her brother, Colonel Daniel Lee Powell, Rich- mond, Virginia, and at the close of the war bought a plantation on long credit in his native district of Marion, South Carolina, where he settled down to retrieve his fortunes and establish a home by the practice of his profession and the tilling of the soil. By industry and application he succeeded in paying for his plantation, which he sold in 1874, removed to Mars Bluff, and later in 1877 to Florence, South Carolina, where he resided until the time of his death, July 15, 1909, at Clifton Springs, New York, at the ripe age of 77 years. He achieved eminence in his chosen profession, filling a number of honorable official positions in his native state. In 1887 he was elected president of the South Carolina State Med- ical Association, and the following year was appointed by the governor a mem- ber of the State Board of Health. In 1895 he became secretary of that board and its chief administrative officer, filling that position for more than ten years. He was active in securing legislation for improving sanitary conditions and classify- ing the vital statistics of the state, and fostering and encouraging the establish-
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ment of local boards of health. Dr. Evans was a voluminous writer on topics per- taining to his profession, and delivered many notable addresses to the various med- ical and scientific associations with which he held membership. Among his pub- lished papers are, "Puerperal Fever," which attracted wide attention both in the American and European medical journals and won for him the distinction of a bronze medal from the Paris Exposition in 1900. This decoration is still cherished by his family. "Sanitary Uses of Plants and Flowers", "Shock", "Multiple Cancer", "Uses of Normal Saline Solution in Shock", etc. He was the author of a number of health tracts for distribution under the aus- pices of the State Board of Health and the basis of the hygenic and sanitation instruction now introduced into the school course in every public school in his state, on diseases, their cause, treatment and method of prevention, and other kindred subjects. He was a member of the American Medical Association; suc- cessively the delegate to the National Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health, the Pan-American Medical Congress. He was a member of American Social Science Association and the Institute of Art, Science and Letters, to which he was elected upon the nomination of Dr. Barouk of New York. He was also a member of the United Confederate Veterans; the United Confederate Sur- geons' Association, and of the South Carolina Chapter Sons of the Revolution.
Maria Antoinette (Powell) Evans was a descendant of the Powells of Castle Madoc, County Brecknock, Wales, who were descended through a long line of Welsh nobility, from the ancient Cymric Kings and princes. Three grandsons of Dr. David Powell, of the Powells of Madoc Castle, the col-laborator of Hak- luyt in the compilation of "Hakluyt's Voyages of Discovery", were among the first Virginia adventurers, and active participants in the founding and perpetua- tion of the first permanent English colony in America.
Captain Nathaniel Powell, probably the most prominent of the three brother adventurers, came out to Virginia with Captain Newport with the first colonists of Jamestown in 1607, and was the author of the narrative of the discovery of the Chesapeake in Captain John Smith's "True Relation" 1619. He had been a cap- tain in the Low Countries, and became one of the most renowned of the James- town colonists. He was deputy governor when Sir George Yeardley arrived to take up the government of the colony in 1619, and retained his membership in His Majesty's Council, under Yeardley, until he was killed with all his family, by the Indians, on his plantation at Powell's Brook, on York river, in the great mas- sacre of March 19, 1622. He left no issue, and his estate was distributed, under proceedings in the High Court of Chancery of London, among the children of his eldest brother Sir Thomas Powell, who was knighted at Theobald's in 1624.
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