- DR. A. PATTERSON, physician, East Bridge street; came to
Wisconsin in the fall of 1877, and
- located an office for the practice of medicine in Beloit;
he was born in Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., N.Y., in 1820, and moved
to Durand, Winnebago Co., Ill., March 26, 1839, walking all the
way from Cleveland, Ohio, to Durand, with a pack on his back.
In 1849, he graduated at Rush Medical College, passing all the
Chairs, and commenced the practice of medicine on March 26, 1849,
in which he gained a handsome competence and gave to each of
his sons a good farm, well stocked. He has held the offices
of Town Clerk, Road Commissioner and School Director, in Durand;
during the war, the Doctor had full charge of a ward in Hospital
14, located at Nashville, Tenn.. He is essentially a self-made
man; he, when young, had his father and mother to support, and
although sick most of the time, not only managed to support
them well but to make enough money to complete his course of
studies in Rush College. He married, January 2, 1848, Ruth BURROWS,
of Oswego Co., N.Y.; has two sons - Wilson A. and Watson G.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 761.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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