[p. 972] who is engaged in a general teaming business at Mahoningtown, resides on his well cultivated farm of forty acres, which is situated in North Beaver Township, on the Mahoningtown-Mount Jackson highway, one half mile west of the former place. He was born November 23, 1868, a half mile west of his present farm, and is a son of John D. and Nancy C. (Brothers) Patterson. The father of Mr. Patterson resides at Mahoningtown and is janitor of the Seventh Ward school.
Mr. Patterson is a capable farmer, but he has not devoted his whole life to agricultural pursuits. He was educated in the country schools until he was eighteen years of age, and then left the farm and was employed by W. M. Wedell as a clerk in his general store at Mount Jackson. He continued with this employer for eighteen months, and in the same capacity was employed for a like period by J. D. F. Newell, at Mahoningtown. Mr. Patterson then became a brakeman on a passenger train on the Pennsylvania line, and worked there for nine years, at the end of which time he bought his present farm. In 1903 he built a greenhouse and entered into the nursery business, raising flowers of all kinds and bedding plants, in addition to carrying on general agriculture.
Mr. Patterson had a pleasant family of wife and three children. He married Elizabeth Clark, a daughter of D. M. Clark, and their children were David, Henry and Clair, the last mentioned of whom died aged eighteen months. Mr. Patterson has been doubly bereaved, his wife dying March 30, 1905. She was a lady of engaging personality and many virtues. He is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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