Patterson, Thomas J.

PATTERSON

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 16:57:45

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.648

PATTERSON, THOMAS J., farmer and stock-raiser, Otter Township, Sec. 22; P. O. Milo; he owns a fine farm of 196 acres; was born Dec. 25, 1840, in Warren county, Indiana; he lived there till he was twenty-one years of age, and being of a roving disposition, he made a tour through the northern states, and most of the southern, and finally settled in this township; came on to his present farm in 1876; he enlisted in Co. D, Fiftieth Indiana Infantry, August 28, 1862, and served about two years, when he was transferred to the Fifty-second Indiana Infantry, and was discharged July 16, 1865; he was in all the battles in which his regiments was engaged; he returned home and went to farming, about ten years ago; he was badly crippled several years ago, by having both legs broken, by falling through the railroad bridge at Iowa City, from a stock train; he was married December 1, 1878, to Miss Mary Lee, who was a resident of this township.