D. B. Patterson From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1016 - 1017.

TOWN OF SMELSER

D. B. PATTERSON, retired farmer, Georgetown; born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., in 1812; came to this county in 1836, and settled in Jamestown in 1840; he removed to this town, where he has since resided. Mr. Patterson has been twice married; first to Cornelia M. Sheffield in 1837; she was born in Ohio in 1815, and died in 1862; she had nine children - Alvin, Francis M., Ida, Ira, Eugenie, Edward, Hellen, William and Annie. In 1869, he married Mary Fust, a native of Cornwall, England; born in 1832; they have two children - George and Frederick; are members of the Christian Church.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.