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

J. W. PATTERSON, of the firm of Patterson & Longley, dealers in coal, wood and coke, Joliet; 
is a native of Newburg, N. Y.; he was born Sept. 12, 1853; he is a son of Thomas H. PATTERSON, 
of this city; in early childhood he moved with parents to Haverstraw, N. Y., near the battle 
ground of Stony Point, and there lived until the spring of 1865, when the family came to 
Joliet; he was educated in the public schools and at Russell's Business College in Joliet; 
he also attended the Chicago University for a time; in 1875, he began keeping books for his 
father and the firm of Lyons & Patterson, and con- tinued at this until 1877, when he engaged 
in the coal business for himself. He was married Oct. 18, 1876, to Miss Hattie A. STRICKLAND, 
daughter of the late Henry STRICKLAND, an early settler of Joliet; they have one child - Claire.