My Genealogy Hound

ROBERT PATTERSON, farmer, post office Duquesne, was born Oct. 15, 1820, in Mifflin township, this county. His grandfather, Robert Patterson, a native of Ireland, settled first east of the mountains, and afterward in Mifflin township, where he followed the weaver’s trade, and was also one of the pioneer school teachers. His wife, Isabella, was the daughter of Capt. Brisbin, a revolutionary hero. She had eight children: Mary, Elizabeth, Nancy, Jane, John, James, Samuel and William. Of these John was a farmer, and died near Pittsburgh, aged sixty years; his wife, nee Mary Oldfield, was the mother of seven children: Eliza, Isabella, Robert, John, Mary, Nancy and George. The subject of this memoir was educated in his native county, where he has been a farmer all his life. The old farm consisted of 150 acres, of which he has yet one hundred, situated between the new steelworks and the glass-factory. He married Priscilla, daughter of John McCaslin, and she died Oct. 29, 1878, the mother of four children: Mrs. Mary Risher, Mrs. Sarah Rath, Mrs. Fannie Risher and Bessie V. Mr. Patterson has taken an active interest in church work, and was formerly elder of the Presbyterian Church; politically he was a whig, and since a republican.