Husband John Howard Patton 1 2 3
Born: 29 Jul 1851 - Union Furnace, Huntingdon Co, PA 2 3
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Father: George Washington Patton (1817-1882) 4 5 6
Mother: Mary B. Burket (1825-1856) 4 5 7
Marriage: 1888 8
Other Spouse: A. Louisa Cunningham ( -1882) 5 8 - 13 Apr 1880 5 8
Wife Jessie R. Geiger 5 8
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Father: Judge Levi Geiger ( - ) 5 8
Mother: Rosalinda [Unk] ( - ) 5 8
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General Notes: Husband - John Howard Patton
Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
He moved to Altoona, Pennsylvania, with his parents in 1852. After receiving his education in the public schools, he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1870, spending ten years in the general superintendent's office. He moved to Claridge, Westmoreland County, in 1885, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and was interested in and opened up the Claridge Gas Coal Company's works of which he had charge. He moved to Greensburg in 1889, where he organized and was president of the following companies: Atlantic Crushed Coke, Lucesco Coal, Huron Coal, Howard Gas Coal, Hempfield Foundry, Greensburg Storage and Transfer, and other coal interests in Westmoreland County. Politically Mr. Patton affiliated with the Republicans. He was a Lutheran in his religious faith. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, being advanced to the degree of a K. T.
Though he came of good family, and directly from parents of refinement and intellectual inclinations, he, a younger son, was not afforded the academic education adequate to his station. He passed through the Altoona public schools, wherein he absorbed all the knowledge coming within its scope, and supplemented that by a natural alertness of understanding, quickness of grasp, keenness of observation, and an earnest desire to succeed in life by his own unaided efforts, which blending of progressive qualities actuated him in appropriating, to himself all further private opportunities for study coming within his reach, so that at nineteen years of age, when he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, he was well based in more than the fundamentals of academic learning. His initiation into business life was at Altoona, where in the eleven years of energetic, intelligent and resolute application to the executive branch of the railroad company's affairs, he acquired an expert acquaintance, and familiarity with business affairs of magnitude, which training in his later and more responsible. business activities stood him in good stead. His decade of railroad service developed in him a capacity for organization and a celerity of action, which was valuable capital in the important enterprises of his later business effort. He did not sever his connection with the railroad company, but in 1885 removed to Claridge, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, as agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and became one of the promoters of the Manor Gas Coal Company, with which he was associated until the business was sold to the Westmoreland Coal Company. He opened up the Claridge Gas Coal Company's works, which corporation he directed for twenty years. In 1889 he removed to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and there, in the heart of that thriving coal-mining section of the state, quickly commanded a leading place among the business executives of the county. He organized many companies for the development of coal-bearing tracts, and in other ways aided the development of the district. Among the companies, in the institution and strengthening of which J. Howard Patton has been the prime mover and directing factor of importance, also president, are many of magnitude, including the Atlantic Crushed Coke Company, Lucesco Coal Company, Huron Coal Company, the Howard Gas Coal Company, and the Greensburg Storage and Transfer Company. Mr. Patton still retained an interest in LucescoCoal Company and the Howard Gas Coal Company. He had also many other interests in coal mining properties of Westmoreland County.
Although he was not able personally to enter into any of the political campaigns of his time, Mr. Patton for many years gave firm allegiance to the Republican party. By religious faith he was a Lutheran, as was his father, and his fraternal inclination found expression in the Masonic order, in the degrees of which Mr. Patton advanced far, holding Knights Templarship in the York Rite, and admittance to thirty-second degree privileges in the Scottish Rite; he was also a Shriner of Syria Temple, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, Americus Republican Club of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution, also of many railroad associations.