Dr. Israel Pattison 1840-1903 Civil War Veteran

PATTISON, COLEMAN, QUINNBACH, MATTHIE

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 5/14/2011 at 14:01:29

The death of Dr. Israel Pattison
occurred at his home in this city
Sunday morning at '2 o'clock after a
short illness of toxemia poisoning
of the nerve centers, brought on by
a severe attack of la grippe.
Israel Pattison was born in the
Province of Ontario October I8, 1840,
and was therefore sixty-two years,
six months and eight days of age at
the time of his death. He was educated
in the schools of the province
where he was born, and in the
Buffalo University of Medicine,
Buffalo, N. Y., from where he volunteered
in a New York regiment at
the beginning of the Civil War. He
continued in the Union army till the
Battle of Culpepper Court House in
I864, when he received such severe
injuries that he was discharged from
the service.
As soon as he was able he reentered
the Buffalo University of
Medicine, graduated from this institution,
and again entered the army
as assistant surgeon of the One
Hundred Eighty-Seventh New York
Volunteers. He continued in the service
till the close of the war, and
was mustered out July 3,1865.
In 1870 he was united in marriage
to Miss Alice Coleman who resided
near his old home in the Province of
Ontario. They came west and
settled the same year at Otsego,
formerly a town a few miles southeast
of where Oelwein is located.
To this union were born five children,
Mary, Alice, John, Dill and
Sarah. Mary is the wife of F. W.
Quinnbach, John and Dill are
practicing physicians, of this city,
Alice is Mrs. Wm. Matthie, and
Sarah resides at the family home.
Dr. Pattison was made postmaster
at Otsego, and when the present
city of Oelwein began to develop in
1873 he moved the post office and the
building containing it to Oelwein,
and became the first postmaster of
this city. It will thus be seen that
he is a pioneer of this section for
about a third of a century, and has
resided in this city for thirty years.
No man in this section is better
known than he and he numbered
his friends by the hundreds.
He was always a republican, and
that party sent him to represent this
county in the Twenty-Fifth General
Assembly where he made an excellent
record, serving on important
committees. He was the first mayor
of this city, and has served also as
member of the council, member of
the board of education, and health
officer.
Four years ago he erected a hospital
on Frederick street, and as he
was the C. G. W. Railway physician
at this point, it has become of use
for the railway as well as the general
public. His extensive medical
practice was carried on in company
with his sons, John and Dill. Dr.
Pattison had a private library, medical
and general, that is equal to any
in the county. He was a scholarly
man, well informed, not only in his
profession, but on general topics,
and the writer has passed many a
pleasant hour conversing with him
in his library in the Pattison Hospital.
The Doctor was affiliated with the
Episcopal church, and died in the
Christian faith. He was also a
member of the Knights Templar, a
Shriner, a member of the Elks, and
other societies. The funeral will
occur from St. Mary's Episcopal
church this afternoon at 2 p. m., the
rector of that church, Rev. F. C.
Smith officiating. Interment will be
in the Oelwein cemetery. The business
houses of the city will be closed
during the services, as a token of
respect for an honored pioneer.

Oelwein Register - 29 April 1903
Note: burial at Oakdale Cemetery