Biographical Sketch of T. H. Patterson, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Judge T. H. Patterson, of Mansfield, Wright County, Mo., was born in
Indiana, on the 9th of April, 1826, and was there reared to manhood and
educated in the common schools, becoming, in after years, a popular
educator of Clark County.  On the 17th of March, 1859, he married Miss
Elizabeth Hunter, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1831, but was reared
in Indiana.  She was also a successful teacher in the public schools of
that state, and has taught one term of school since coming to Missouri.
Of a number of children born to them, only one is known to be living at
the present time, Hannah Florence.  Thomas A. left home, and has not 
been heard from for five years.  Those deceased are George W., aged 
three years; Margaret, an infant; Robert R., aged fourteen years; John,
aged ten years, and Mary E., who was a public school teacher of Wright
and Webster Counties, and while visiting friends in another portion of
the state took sick, and died quite suddenly.  Her birth occurred in
September, 1863, and her death July 24, 1888.  The mother of these
children died December 13, 1878.  During the late war Judge Patterson
served in Company C, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and after the
cessation of hostilities came to Missouri and located in Newton County,
where he lived three years, and was engaged in pedagoguing.  In 1871 he
came to where Mansfield now is, where he followed the same occupation,
and was also engaged in tilling the soil.  He has held the office of
justice of the peace for a number of years, and has also served one 
term of four years as presiding judge of the Wright County Court.  He
was a high license man for several years.  He is a Republican in poli-
tics, a member of the Christian Church, and owns a good farm of 160
acres.  His father, Robert Patterson, was a native of County Down, 
Ireland, and was born about 1789.  After leaving there he lived in
Scotland some time, and in 1811 came to America, and joined the United
States troops in the War of 1812.  He located in Maryland, and was 
there married to Miss Hannah Hill, and soon afterward moved to Kentucky
then to Indiana, dying in the latter state, on Christmas Day, 1852. 
His wife was born in Maryland in 1797, and died in Clark County, Ind.,
in 1884.  They were the parents of three sons and four daughters.  Two
of the daughters and one son are now living.
 
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