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Surname: Patton, Chace, Donelson, Girrard, McBroom, Payne, Sewards, Statton
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Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp.
411-412
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
ANDREW J. PATTON, one of the prominent and public-spirited men of Perry
Township, is a representative of one of the earliest pioneer families of
Tippecanoe County. MR. PATTON was born in Floyd County, Kentucky, March
10, 1816, a son of WILLIAM and JANE (McBROOM) PATTON, the father being
a Virginian by birth. The father was married in his native State, after
which he removed to Floyd County, Kentucky, and shortly after he was elected
sheriff of that county. In 1819 he removed with his family to Indiana,
and settled in Orange County, where he died August 1820, leaving his widow
with three sonsJAMES H., who died in Jones County, Iowa, in 1885; DAVID
M.B., now a minister of the United Brethren church, and a resident of Perry
Township; and ANDREW J., the youngest child. His widow was again married
in 1823, to CHARLES SEWARDS, and in 1826 the family removed to Montgomery
County, Indiana. In 1827 they came to Tippecanoe County, and settled on
school land on section 16, Perry Township, in the spring of that year,
at which time there were but seven families living in that township. Here
the family resided until 1838, when with the exception of JAMES H., they
went to Arkansas, and there settled in Phillips County, on the St. Francis
River, where they spent one year. They then went to Stoddard County, Missouri,
and two years later to Cape Girardeau County, in the same State. MR. SEWARDS
died in 1847.
ANDREW J. PATTON, whose name heads this sketch, was married December 28,
1849, to MISS MARY GIRRARD, a native of Perry Township, who was born August
30, 1830, her parents, JOSEPH and ANN (DONELSON) GIRRARD, having settled
in Perry Township in the fall of 1828. They formerly resided near Troy,
in Miami County, Ohio. They were the parents of nine children, named as
followsMINERVA, AMANDA, NANCY, ELMIRA, HESTER, LUCY, MARY (wife of our
subject), WILLIAM and JESSE. MR. GIRRARD died in September, 1839. His widow
still survives, and is living in Perry Township, at the advanced age of
ninety-two years. ALBERT DONELSON, of Lafayette, and JUDGE DUDLEY CHACE,
of Logansport, Cass County, Indiana, and one of the prominent lawyers of
Indiana, are her nephews.
MR. and MRS. PATTON are the parents of eight childrenALFRED, who lives
in Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana; WALLACE, of Perry Township; ROSALIE,
wife of ALBERT STATTON, of Perry Township; ANN, wife of D.L. PAYNE, of
Carroll County; CHARLES, of Perry Township; LILLY, at home; EDGAR, at home,
and ADA, also at home. MR. PATTON remained in Perry Township until 1856,
in which year he removed to Cedar County, Iowa, and later bought land in
Jones County, that State. In 1857 he returned to Perry Township, this county,
and shortly after his return he exchanged his Iowa land for his present
farm, where he has fifty acres of choice land and pleasant and comfortable
home. In his political views MR. PATTON is a Republican. He is justice
of the peace, and while holding this office his decisions are always wise
and just. He is a man of strict integrity, fair and honorable in his dealings,
and is numbered among the respected men of the township where he has made
his home for so many years.