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

James G. PATTERSON, of the fim of James G. Patterson & Son, grocers and news-dealers, Joliet; 
was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1831, and came to the United States in 1851, settling 
in Haverstraw, Rockland Co., N. Y.; three years later he went to Newburg, thence to New York 
City, coming to Joliet in the spring of 1855 ; he was engaged in manufacturing wagons and 
carriages, and followed that business until 1862, when he engaged in his present business. 
He was manied April 23,1855, to Miss Mary A. HARRIS, of New York City, also a native of 
County Tyrone, Ireland; they have seven children - William A., Margaret J., Lillie M., 
James C., Eliza E., Emma K. and John H.