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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah July 15, 2020

Dr. Louis G. Patty, a practicing physician and surgeon of Carroll, is a prominent and successful representative of the medical profession in this county. His birth occurred in Benton county, Iowa, on the 30th of June, 1864, his parents being Joseph M. and Rachel J. (Greenlee) Patty, both of whom were natives of Miami county, Ohio. His paternal grandfather, Marcus Patty, was a native of Ohio, and passed away at the comparatively early age of thirty-nine years. He conducted a tavern at Covington, Ohio, and was also a contractor on turnpikes. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Miller, died in early womanhood. They had two sons, Joseph and David. William Greenlee, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Kentucky, and a farmer by occupation. He lived to attain the age of seventy-six years, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Esther Furnas, was eighty-three years old when called to her final rest. Their children were thirteen in number, namely: Robert, Nancy, Mary, Rachel, William R., Columbus C., Clay, Sadie M., Edward, Flora and three who died in infancy.

Joseph M. Patty, the father of Dr. Patty of this review, was the first physician in the town of Carroll. He learned the tailor’s trade in early life and in the ‘50s crossed the plains to California, working as a miner in that state. Subsequently he joined the United States navy on the ship St. Mary’s, being in the Atlantic squadron which did duty around the Isthmus of Panama about the time of the Civil war. Before crossing the plains he had studied medicine and became a pioneer physician of Benton county, Iowa, where he practiced his profession for some time, riding horseback with saddlebags. After his naval service he returned home to Benton county, where he was married and continued to reside until 1867, when he took up his abode in Carroll, coming here from Grant City in June of that year. In connection with the practice of medicine he also engaged in freighting, owning several teams. He likewise conducted a tavern and in fact undertook anything at which he could make an honest living. In 1870 he removed with his family to Chanute, Kansas, which was at that time called New Chicago, and there took up a claim. In 1872 he returned to Carroll and it was here that his demise occurred in 1884, when he had attained the age of about fifty-three years. He was a Master Mason and a worthy exemplar of the fraternity. His wife was called to her final rest in 1906 when sixty-five years of age. They were the parents of four children, namely: Louis G., of this review; Clay, who is a resident of Fonda, Iowa; Josephine, who was born in Carroll on the 30th of October, 1867, resides here at the present time and is the wife of E. M. Shepherd; and Frank, who is deceased.

Louis G. Patty was reared in Carroll and attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education. In 1887 he completed the course in the veterinary department of Ames College, while in 1893 he won the degree of M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. He began the practice of his profession in Carroll county and with the exception of three and a half years spent in Pocahontas county has here remained to the present time. In connection with his duties as a physician and surgeon he also taught school for a number of terms, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge that he had acquired. He keeps in touch with the advancement that is being continually made by the medical fraternity through his membership in the Carroll County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and his practice has steadily grown as he has demonstrated his ability to cope with the intricate problems which confront the physician in his efforts to restore health and prolong life.

On the 5th of November, 1895, Dr. Patty was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Coffield, who was born near Jerusalem, Ohio, her parents being Benjamin W. and Amanda J. (Andrews) Coffield, who are likewise natives of the Buckeye state. They came to Iowa in 1870, first residing at Maloy’s Grove, near Dedham, Carroll county, for a short time. Subsequently they purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Eden township, making their home thereon for twenty years. On the expiration of that period they removed to a farm in Audubon county, where they are living at the present time. Benjamin W. Coffield enlisted for service in the Union army when but nineteen years of age, becoming a private of Company C, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the 12th of August, 1862. He received a slight flesh wound and was captured at the battle of High Bridge, Virginia, on the 6th of April, 1865, but was exchanged and mustered out at Camp Chase, Ohio, by order of the war department, on the 10th of June, 1865. He was the father of six children, three of whom grew to maturity, namely: Josephine, Louise and Fred. Thomas Coffield, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Patty, was a native of Ireland and gentleman farmer. He had a large and elegant library and was a deep student. Unto him and his wife, who prior to her marriage was Miss Sharp, where born five children: Mary, Harriet, Benjamin, Margaret and Eliza. Alben Andrews, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Patty, was born in 1818—one hour after the arrival of his parents in Philadelphia from England. Unto him and his wife, who in maidenhood was Miss Mary J. Colvig, where born six children: Samuel, Amanda, Alfred, Louise, Adelbert and Anna. Alben Andrews lived to attain the age of seventy-six years, while his wife reached the advanced age of eighty-eight years, passing away in the summer of 1910. Dr. and Mrs. Patty have one child, Maude.

In politics Dr. Patty is a republican, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging to Signet Lodge, No. 264, A.F. & A.M.; Copestone Chapter, No. 78, R.A.M.; Emmaus Commandery, No. 35, K. T.; and to Za-Ga-Zig Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Dr. Patty is a public-spirited man and popular, an unfeigned cordiality and uniform courtesy gaining him the warm friendship and kindly regard of the greater number of those with whom he comes in contact.

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