Lake-Morgan-La Porte County IN Archives Biographies.....Patton, Seymore 1828 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

SEYMORE PATTON

    Seymore Patton is one of the oldest citizens of Lake county, both in years
of his age and in length of residence, and his honorable and active career as a
farmer here for over forty-five years is one of the important items of the
history of Center township. He came here in the strength and vigor of his young
manhood and settled on the land which has ever since formed part of his
homestead, and from the wild prairie and woodland he developed a farm whose
continued cultivation has afforded him a most honorable occupation and a means
of livelihood, resulting in comfortable circumstances for his old age and in
grateful esteem and regard from all his fellow citizens and associates.

    Mr. Patton was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, December 18, 1828, a son of
John and Eliza Jane (Dixon) Patton, the former a native of Butler county,
Pennsylvania, and the latter of Ireland, whence she came to America at the age
of fourteen. His parents were married in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where his
father followed the occupation of farming, but spent his last years in Lake
county, Indiana, where his death occurred at the age of sixty-four years. His
mother died in this county at the age of sixty. There were sixteen children in
the family, and all but one grew up and married and reared families.

    Mr. Patton, the fifth child of the family, was reared in Trumbull county,
Ohio, and was educated in that county's public schools. He was married there in
1852, and in the same year he came to Indiana, for the first two years being
located in the south part of the state, in Morgan county. In 1855 he came to
Lake county, but two years later moved to LaPorte county, whence two years later
he moved back to Lake county. He then bought the farm where he now lives, and
has continued his home and habitation thereon during all the subsequent years.
He found the place a raw prairie, but he has placed and replaced many
improvements since the day of his arrival. The present home place consists of
eighty acres besides fifteen acres of timber tract.

    In 1852 Mr. Patton married Miss Sarah Ann Beber, who was born near
Allentown, Pennsylvania, and died May 8, 1904. Five children were born of this
union of over fifty years, and four are now living: Anna M., the wife of
Freeland Price, of Norton county, Kansas; Sarah, unmarried; William H., at home
and performing most of the active work of the farm; and Vina, at home. Anna was
a successful teacher in Lake county and also in Kansas. Mr. Patton has long been
one of the Democratic voters of the county, and has always given his influence
to the work of progress and development of his community.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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