John Watson Pattison and Minnie M. Allen

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Husband John Watson Pattison ¹

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           Born: 26 Oct 1880 - Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Watson Pattison (1840-1909) 1 2
         Mother: Catherine Brown (      -Aft 1926) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1923 3

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   Other Spouse: Clara E. Patterson (      -1922) 3

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Wife Minnie M. Allen ^{3 4}

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           Born: 1884 4
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           Died: Jun 1976 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: John Allen (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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   Other Spouse: Charles Elmer Rodgers (1881-1920) 4 - 1904 - ? Venango Co, PA

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Watson Pattison

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He was educated in the public schools of his native county and in a business college. After leaving school he was for ten years with the National Bank of Lawrence County, serving in various positions from teller to superior posts. In 1914 he saw an opportunity to engage in business for himself and he took a large interest in the Lawrence Automobile Company. Abandoning every other interest that had taken a hold on him, Mr. Pattison set to work to build up the business of the company. For two years he strove and in 1916 he had developed the concern to a point where it was very prosperous. Aggressive and ambitious to seek opportunities as a pioneer in other fields, he formed a partnership with a Mr. H. C. Heck and organized the Penn Coal and Supply Company and then devoted all his energies and abilities to steering the business, which was established in the most pioneering fashion, to success. In five years they had brought the concern to the highest place in the Lawrence County field, and, gradually increasing and expanding its operations, they placed it among the big coal and supply companies of the state. The Penn Coal and Supply Company dealt in coal, builders supplies and materials, and specialized in raw materials, and it operated within a radius of fifty miles of New Castle. They maintain their plant at No. 910 Moravia Street, where with a frontage of five hundred feet and coal bins with a capacity of one thousand tons, they employed twenty-five men and operated a fleet of sixteen motor trucks. Mr. Pattison was a director in the Community Savings and Loan Association, of New Castle. A Republican, active in all the party's affairs, he was auditor of Union Township for twenty-two years, and he also held many other important offices. During the World War, unable to go into service on account of age, but motivated by a spirit of patriotism and loyalty, he took part in all home war work and he was chairman of all Union Township Liberty and Victory Loan campaign committees.
He was a member of the New Castle Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was Past Master, and belonged to Valley of New Castle Consistory of the Scottish Rite; the Lawrence Club, and the new Castle Board of Trade. His church was the Central Presbyterian New Castle. He had a hundred-acre farm and specialized in dairying and poultry. He had fifteen head of registered Jersey cattle and kept about five hundred pullets, white wyandottes. He raised everything he fed, all the land being under cultivation. The farm was part of the original grant to Alexander Stuart in 1787.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 252.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 783.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 253.

4 Helen M. Snyder, Genealogy of Robert Beatty 1760-1823 (Franklin, PA: Self-published.), Pg 108.