Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.

************************************************

File contributed for use by:
Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn

Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

James PATTERSON, farmer; P. O. East Wheatland; was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, January, 
1832, and is the brother of D. PATTERSON, who was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Oct. 8, 
1829, who came to Will Co., IL, and settled in Wheatland Twp. in 1849; came here very poor, 
but, with industry, to-day they own 440 acres of land, with improvements that rank with the 
best of Will Co; in 1853, they purchased the present farm from John H. HALL, who had erected 
a house 12 x 14, two stories high, the first floor used for a horse-stable, and the second 
story used to sleep in; this house was also the home of Messrs D. and J. PATTERSON for 
several years, and is now standing on the farm. Mr. D. PATTERSON married in 1859 Miss Jane 
WILLIAMSON, of Scotland, daughter of John WILLIAMSON, a farmer of Lake Co., IL.