Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, Boyd County James S. Patton was born in Greenup (now Boyd) County, Ky., October 9, 1846, and is the second son of William M. Patton, a native of Blair County, Pa., who settled in Boyd County, Ky., in 1840, engaged in the iron business on his own account, held the office of Deputy U.S. Assessor for several years, and died in 1871, aged sixty-eight years. Mrs. Rebecca (Boal) Patton, mother of James S., was also a native of Pennsylvania. James S. Patton in 1870, with his brothers George and William, entered the wholesale and retail drug and paint business at Catlettsburg. The firm carry a stock worth about $20,000, employ three traveling salesmen in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, supplying about fifty counties with their goods, and their trade reaches the sum of $100,000 per annum. They occupy three brick buildings, three stories and basement, the main one being 24 by 100 feet; the warehouse is 44 by 78 feet, and the oil storehouse 22 by 40 feet. Here are employed twenty-four hands and connected with the establishment is a printing department, devoted to advertisements, labels, etc. James S. Patton is chairman of the Democratic County Committee, while his brother George, the senior member of the firm, born in Lawrence County, O., in 1844, has served as county commissioner of Boyd County, Ky. William A Patton, the third member of the firm, was born February 17, 1848, in Boyd County, Ky., and was married March 7, 1882, to Miss Emma Andrews, daughter of N.P. Andrews, an old merchant of Catlettsburg. Patton Boal Andrews = Greenup-KY Blair-PA WV Lawrence-OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyd/patton.js.txt