GEORGE K. PATTERSON

George K. Patterson, of Harlan, is a native of Iowa, born in Marion County, December 10, 1860; he is a son of H.W. Patterson, a native of Ohio, born in Athens County in 1836; his father was Moses Patterson, who was among the pioneers of Ohio, and of Scotch and Irish ancestry. H.W. Patterson was reared on a farm in his native country, receiving a common-school education. He was married to Miss Eleanor Carder, a native of Connecticut, and a daughter of Henry Carder, of Puritan ancestry. In 1857 they emigrated to Iowa and settled in Marion County; here Mr. Patterson followed farming until the breaking out of the late war. In 1862 he enlisted in the Thirty-third Iowa Voluntary Infantry, Company A, serving until the close of the war, when he returned to Marion County. In the fall of 1865 he removed to Chariton, Lucas County, where he remained two years; from this place he went to Dallas County where he resided one year. In the spring of 1869 he came to Shelby County and purchased a farm in Harlan township, in Bowman's Grove; he improved this place and lived upon it until 1873, when he moved to Jackson Township, where he lived until he was elected sheriff, in the fall of 1881; he then moved to Harlan and served one year, when he was taken ill and died December 19, 1882. His wife still survives and lives in Harlan. They were the parents of ten children, five of whom are living---George K., Moses H., Chandler R., Caroline and Ota. Mr and Mrs. Patterson were members of the Baptist church. Mr. Patterson was a member of the Republican party.

The boyhood of our subject, George K., was spent in the manner of most youths living on a farm. He was nine years old when he came to Shelby county, and remained at home until the death of his father. In the autumn of 1882 he began to learn the trade of a barber, serving an apprenticeship; he afterward worked as a journeyman, and in the spring of 1885 purchased the shop where he learned his trade. Here he worked for a year and a half, and then sold out and worked as a journeyman for a short time; he then bought an interest in his present shop, and in 1887 he bought out his partner, and is doing a thriving business.


He was married September 7, 1884, to Miss Anna Clark, a native of Tipton, Iowa. They are the parents of two children---Edna May and George; both of these children died in December 1887, the younger being taken the 7th, and the older the 19th; both died of diptheritic croup.

Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pp. 343,344. Family Researcher: Transcribed and submitted by Craig and Nancy Poole - cpoole@unmc.edu