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Subject: [IAHENRY] Henry Co. Bios-Ledgerwood Patterson
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:05:39 EST

>From "Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa" Chicago: Acme
Publishing Company, 1888.

Page 597:

LEDGERWOOD PATTERSON, deceased, was one of the pioneer settlers of Henry
County, Iowa. He was born in Augusta County, Va., in 1801, and there grew to
manhood, receiving his education in the schools of his native county. About the
year 1828 Mr. Patterson was united in marriage with Drusilla T. Henry, of the
same county. She was a native of that county, born in 1809. In 1835 Mr.
Patterson and his young bride removed to Henry County, Ind., remaining there for
seven years, and in 1842 came to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, which was then but a small
village. Soon after their arrival the husbnd was taken sick, never recovering
from his illness, and dying in November of the same year. Politically Mr.
Patterson affiliated with the Whig party. To him and his wife six children were
born, four of whom are living: Mary M., wife of James Craig, of Cameron,
Mo.; William W., of San Jose, Cal.; James H., and Elvira, also at Cameron, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were among the founders of the Presbyterian Church of
this county, in fact the society was organized in their home. Mrs. Patterson
died in 1871, in Kansas City, at the age of sixty-two, and she and her husband
were buried in the cemetery of Mt. Pleasant. None stood higher in the
community than did Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, and their deaths were sincerely mourned by
a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

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Pat Ryan White
Camarillo, CA
MPHS, Class of 1966

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