JACOB D. PATTERSON
Widely
known along his particular line, Jacob D. Patterson, of Lucas,
Iowa, has for the past eighteen years been successfully
engaged as commercial salesman and in that capacity travels
extensively over the major portion of southern Iowa, having
built up a gratifying and representative patronage. Born in Woodsfield,
Monroe county, Ohio, on April 7, 1852, he is a son of James
and Mary (Miller) Patterson, native of Washington county,
Pennsylvania, both deceased, the father having passed away in
Ohio in 1892 and the mother also having died in that state. In their family
were three children: Jacob
D., of this review; Wilmer A., secretary of the Loan &
Trust Company of Marietta, Ohio; and one who died in infancy.
Jacob D. Patterson was reared under the parental roof and when nine years of age removed with his parents to Coal Run, Washington county, Ohio, where he lived until he reached manhood. His educational advantages comprised a common-school course and attendance at the college at Marietta, Ohio. His father was interested in coal mining and tanning and our subject remained in Coal Run, Ohio, until he was thirty-three years of age, when he removed to Lucas. He later went to Chariton, where he remained for four years, at the end of which period he again came to Lucas and has since resided in this city. For the past eighteen years he has been successfully engaged as nursery salesman but for some time previously also followed railroading. He has been most successful as commercial traveler and as the years have passed has accumulated a gratifying competence.
In
December, 1874, Mr. Patterson was married to Miss Sarah J.
Murray, who was born in Morgan county, Ohio, in March, 1853,
and passed away in Chariton, in August, 1898. Her father was
Charles Murray, a veteran of the Civil war, in which he
participated as a member of the Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. He
passed away in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863. Her mother, Hannah
(Henderson) Murray, was a native of Washington county,
Pennsylvania, and died in February, 1899. Their family
included: James,
a resident of Eagle, Grove, Iowa; William, residing on a farm
near Corydon, Iowa; John, who passed away in Chariton in 1886;
and Mrs. Patterson. One
daughter by a former marriage of the mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Farley Warff, makes her home in New Virginia, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs.
Patterson are the parents of four children: Charles, born in
1876, who resides in Illinois; Mrs. Lillie Fuller, whose birth
occurred in May, 1880, and who resides in Lucas; Mrs. Maude
Lomax, born in 1884, residing in Monroe county, Ohio; and one
who died in infancy.
Mr. Patterson is deeply interested in historical subjects and has taken great pains in preserving the records of Lucas and of many of the old settlers of this region. He is in possession of a kettle made in Wheeling, West Virginia, in which the grandmother, Mrs. Henderson, prepared many meals for the famous Indian fighter, Louis Wetzel. Although this vessel is considerably older than one hundred years it is still in a very good state of preservation. Mr. Patterson is an omnivorous reader and takes a special interest in all matters pertaining to Lucas and Wayne counties. Politically he is a republican and gives his stalwart support to that party. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are highly regarded and esteemed by all who have come in contact with them.