My Genealogy Hound

DAVID PATTON, farmer, post office Bakerstown, is a son of Benjamin and Mary (Kilbreth) Patton, and was born on the home stead, April 24, 1831. David Patton, Sr., the grandfather of our subject, who was a native of Scotland, came to America during the Revolution, joined the Americans and fought through the war. He afterward settled in Hampton township, Allegheny county, and died about 1842, leaving eleven children, all of whom are since deceased. His fourth child was born in Hampton township, where he lived and followed farming until his death, in 1865. He left nine children, two of whom still live: James, a farmer of Hampton township, and David, the subject of these lines. The latter, at an early age, learned the wagon-maker’s trade, but has chiefly followed farming. In 1862 he moved to his present farm. He married, in 1844, Sophia, daughter of Frederick Grimm, a native of Germany, and an early settler in Hampton township. Mr. and Mrs. Patton have seven children living: Josephine, at home; Henrietta, wife of August Ahlstrom, of Massachusetts; Johanna, wife of James Brown, of West Deer township; Louisa, in Cleve land, Ohio; Margaret, wife of Howard G. Glasgow, of Allegheny; David J. and Ross William, at home. Mr. Patton has held the offices of supervisor, assessor and town clerk. He and family are members of the Presbyterian Church of Bakerstown.