Paton, William W. (1842-1926)

PATON, SKIRVING, HUNT, BROWN, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Linda Linn (email)
Date: 3/21/2011 at 21:03:28

Spirit lake Beacon
4-29-1926

William W. Paton
Dead at Milford

FIRST CAME TO DICKINSON CO
IN 1868 FUNERAL AT
MILFORD FRIDAY
William W. Paton, an honored veteran of the Civil war and a resident of southern Dickinson since 1868, passed away at his Milford home on Wednesday afternoon following less than a
week's illness of pneumonia.

Mrs. Paton, who is a half sister of A. R. Davison of Spirit Lake, had been bedfast with the flu for the past several weeks and was unable to see her husband before his death.

The funeral services for Mr. Paton will be held on Friday afternoon at Milford.

Mr. Paton was a native of Scotland, born in Glasgow, Dec. 23, 1842, aged 83.years, 4 months and 5 days. He came to America with his parents at the age of 5 years, his father locating
in Milwaukee. He later purchased a farm in Green Lake county where the subject of this sketch was reared. At the age of 19 and the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Co. A. 34th Wisconsin Infantry and remained at the front one year. Returning home he engaged in farming in Wisconsin until 1868 when he earned to Dickinson county and purchased a tract of land in Okoboji township. He did not remain here however, but went to Rochester, Minn., near which place he engaged in farming for five years after which he returned and took up his abode on the land he had purchased.

After eighteen years of successful farming he moved, to Milford and engaged in the grain business until 1907 when he retired.
On Jan. 1, 1869, he was united in marriage to Miss Marian Skirving, who together with the family of five children who survive. The children born to this union are: Mrs. Frank Hunt of
southern Dickinson; George A. of Redwood Falls, Minn , Walter D. of Dickey, N.D.; Mrs. T. I. Brown of Chicago and Mrs. Frank Williams of Milford.

Mr. Paton was one of the enterprising and energetic citizens of Dickinson county in its earlier days, and held in the highest respect by all who knew him. Since his first vote for Abraham
Lincoln he has always been a staunch Republican. For a number of years he was assessor of Okoboji township. He has witnessed almost all of the development and improvement of Dickinson county.

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