James Patterson and Eliza Large
Husband James Patterson 1
Born: 4 Mar 1799 - County Down, Ireland 2 Christened: Died: 18 Sep 1876 2 3 Buried:
Father: Gawin Patterson ( - ) 2 Mother: Jane McCann ( - ) 2
Marriage:
Wife Eliza Large 1 4
Born: 4 Jun 1804 - Lancashire, England 4 Christened: Died: 17 Apr 1878 4 Buried:
Father: Daniel Large ( - ) 4 5 Mother: Mary Morehouse ( - ) 4
Children
1 F Mary Patterson 3 4 6 7
Born: 5 Nov 1830 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 8 Christened: Died: 1911 4 Buried:Spouse: Daniel H. Stone, Sr. (1802-1879) 4 7 9 10 Marr: 14 Jul 1853 6
2 M Daniel O. Conrad Patterson 3 4
Born: 9 Sep 1832 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 3 4 Christened: Died: Aft 1914 Buried:Spouse: Elvira Dickey ( - ) 3 Marr: 1857 3
3 M Charles W. Patterson 3 4
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1914 Buried:
4 M James Patterson 4
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
5 F Sarah H. "Sallie" Patterson 3
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1914 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 F Elizabeth Patterson 4
Born: Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 F Jane Patterson 4
Born: Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 M Harry Clay Patterson 3 4
Born: 16 Oct 1838 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: Buried:
9 M Samuel R. Patterson 3 4
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1914 Buried:
General Notes: Husband - James Patterson
He came to America when but six years of age from Ireland with his parents, who settled in Albany, New York. In early manhood he located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he manufactured tanks for several years. He then erected a cotton mill at Doe Run, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and in 1829 settled in what is now Beaver Falls, Beaver County, where at one time he owned 1,200 acres of land, also a tract of 160 acres of cannel coal land in Darlington. He erected a grist mill which turned out 200 barrels of flour per day, and built a cotton mill which gave employment to 150 hands. He erected the Mansion House in 1836. In 1854 he sold 400 acres of land to New York parties. Mr. Patterson had large coal interests, and kept the largest general store in the county in the pioneer days, his various interests giving employment to from 200 to 300 people. He was the first postmaster of Brighton, and for several years carried a daily mail at his own expense between his own office and Beaver. He was an active politician and a member of the Whig party. He voted for James Buchanan, but at the breaking out of the rebellion united with the Republican party. He refused the nomination to both houses of Congress, also for Governor of Ohio, when for judicial purposes he had gained a residence there in 1854. He was a public-spirited man, and gave liberally toward all public enterprises.
He was just two months old when his parents emigrated with him to America. He grew up to be a self-willed little lad, and one day, when he was about five years of age, while shooting at a target, he jumped across a ditch. In doing this he tripped, fell, and broke his ankle. He returned to his home but hid under the table for the remainder of the day, bearing the pain bravely and silently, as he feared if the accident were discovered he would be sent to bed, a proceeding he intensely disliked. When he was finally discovered and the doctor summoned, the ankle had swollen to such an extent that it could not be properly set, and the result was a slight lameness with which he was affected throughout his life. With this exception, he was a vigorous, robust man, of untiring energy and ambition. It was about 1805 that the family removed to Philadelphia, where Mr. Patterson attended the common schools for a time, but he was mainly a self-educated man. His reading was of a wide and diversified character, and by the time he had reached middle age, his wonderful memory caused him to be considered a man of an unusually fine education. In his early manh0od in Philadelphia he had learned the cotton milling business, and at the age of twenty-five years he made a trip to Europe for his health and to broaden his education. After his return to the United States he removed to Beaver County about 1827, and there purchased one thousand three hundred acres of land at the falls of the Beaver river, taking in the ground on which the main part of the village of Beaver Falls was later located; he also owned the ground on which the New Brighton Cemetery was later located, and by this means controlled the water power. He had the machinery for a cotton mill installed, and erected a flour mill, shipping his products by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. The following year his family came, the mode of travel being by means of two carriages and a sufficient number of Conestoga wagons, across the mountains. Mr. Patterson operated his cotton mill continuously until 1856, at which time he sold it to a New York firm. At the time of the great famine in Ireland, he bought large quantities of corn which he kiln dried and ground in his mills, and shipped to Ireland, solely at his own expense. He had considerable trouble in proving his title to the land he had purchased, and on which Beaver Falls later stood, but finally won. His attorney was former Secretary of State Stanton. He was connected with all the important business enterprises of the time in Beaver County, and he was associated with ex-Governor Todd, of Ohio, in the ownership and management of the cannel coal mines in Darlington township and built a railroad in order to have better transportation facilities. During the Civil War he held the office of assessor for the Draft Commission. He was a Whig and Abolitionist, and later took a prominent part in the deliberations of the Republican party. He and his family were members of the Presbyterian church, and he was one of the leading spirits in forwarding the educational movement, built the first school in Beaver Falls, and personally defrayed the cost of teaching.
1 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 678, 705.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 239.
3 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 705.
4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 240.
5 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 678.
6 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 146.
7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 233.
8 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 147.
9 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 723.
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Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 145.
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