PATTERSON, SAMUEL D.

PATTERSON, WALLACE, HATTON, WHEELER, CRUISE, SARCHET

Posted By: Jean Kramer (email)
Date: 11/10/2003 at 12:58:07

Biography reproduced from page 590 of Volume II of the History of Kossuth County written by Benjamin F. Reed and published in 1913:

The growth and development of a city depend not so much upon the machinery of government or even upon those who fill its public offices as upon the enterprise and the progressive spirit of its business men who recognize and utilize the possibilities of trade and thus develop the important commercial center. Each community has its progressive men who while promoting the individual interests never neglect their public obligations and to this class in Algona belongs Samuel D. Patterson, senior partner of the firm of Patterson & Son, proprietors of a well appointed grocery store. He was born in County Antrim, Ireland, November 15, 1841. His parents, Samuel and Sarah (Wallace) Patterson, were of Scotch descent and went to the north of Ireland at the time of the Covenanters. In 1852 they left the Emerald isle for the United States, establishing their home in Columbia county, New York, where the father was engaged in railroading util 1859. The next removal took them to Wisconsin, where he carried on farming until his death, in 1863, when he was forty-five years of age. The mother died in Algona when nearly ninety years of age.

Samuel D. Patterson, a lad of ten years when he accompanied his parents to the United States, continued his education in the public schools of New York and Wisconsin and afterward worked upon his father’s farm until 1867, when he farmed in Rock county, Wisconsin. In 1870 he came to Kossuth county and for a long period was identified with agricultural interests in this part of the state. He purchased a farm in Union township and bent his energies to its further development and improvement, until he had brought his fields under a high state of cultivation and had transformed his place into one of the fine farms of the county. This he successfully conducted until 1893, when he came to Algona and entered commercial circles as a grocer in partnership with his son-in-law, under the firm name of Patterson & Sarchet. In 1895 the junior partner was succeeded by Edward Patterson under the firm style of Patterson & Son, which relation was continued until 1900, when Edward Patterson’s interest was taken over by his brother Charles, who is still in the firm. This is one of the attractive grocery stores of Algona, carrying a large and well selected stock of staple and fancy groceries and gaining a large trade by fair prices and honorable dealing.

In 1867 occurred the marriage of Mr. Patterson and Miss Marian R. Hatton, a daughter of Charles Hatton, who was born in London, England, and went originally to New York on coming to the United States. Subsequently he was a resident of Michigan, where he and his wife were living at the time of the birth of their daughter Marian. They afterward removed to Wisconsin, where Mr. Hatton died in 1895, at the age of eighty-four years, while his wife passed away in 1903, also at the age of eighty-four. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are the parents of four children. Edward A., born in August, 1868, married Grace Wheeler and died in 1905, leaving his wife and two children. Fred A., born in 1870, now engages in the hotel business in Sherwood, North Dakota. He married Miss Laura Crouse, and has four children. Sarah A. became the wife of Charles Sarchet, now a resident of Portland, Oregon, and died, leaving a daughter, Ruth. Charles H., born in 1877, is now in partnership with his father.

Mr. Patterson has ever been a loyal citizen and at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war attempted to enlist as a soldier of the Union army, but on account of an injured arm was not accepted. Feeling that he wished to be represented at the front he then sent a substitute, to whom he paid three hundred and fifty dollars. He has never used liquor nor tobacco throughout his entire life and for many years has been a member of the Good Templars Society. He is also a member of the Congregational church and his entire life has been actuated by high and honorable principles. Both he and his wife are greatly esteemed throughout the city and county and have a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. Their home is a hospitable one and all who visit there are sure of a cordial and sincere welcome.