History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 723.
[Harrison County]  [Leesburg Precinct]

JAMES L. PATTERSON, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana.  Among the leading and
successful farmers of Leesburg Precinct, none are better or more popularly
known than him whose name heads this sketch.  He was born in Harrison
County in the year 1815.  His father was Joseph Patterson, who was
brought from Virginia when an infant, by his parents, and died in the year
1849.  His mother was Susan Smith, a daughter of Eliza Smith, from
Pennsylvania, who died in the same year of her husband, being in 1849.
James L. Patterson married Miss Margaret J. Miller of Harrison County, in
the year 1841, just forty-one years ago, a daughter of Hugh and Mary
(Ewalt) Miller.  Her father died in 1821 and her mother in 1866.  By
this marriage they have no children.  He is the owner of a magnificent
body of land, containing in all 1460 acres.  His home tract is situated
in the fertile valleys of Silas Creek, seven miles from Cynthiana, near
the Bourbon line, and he has given it the appropriate name of "Rural
Choice," upon this farm he has fine stock of every description, such as
short-horn cattle, Cotswold sheep, etc.  He is the owner of twenty-eight
brood mares, from which he raises principally mules, which he generally
sells at one year old.  In politics, he is identified with the Democratic
party, and he and his wife are consistent members of the Christian Church
at Mount Carmel.  Beginning life poor, and by patient industry and
economy, he has amassed a handsome estate, and to which we can point the
ambitious young man of the present day, as an example worthy of imitation.

Patterson Smith Miller Ewalt
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PA VA

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