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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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PATTERSON, L. J. was born in St. Louis Co., Mo., June 19, 1816; resided till the Fall of 1843; married Miss A. E. Hume; moved to Greene Co., Ill., 1844, and in company with A. S. Seeley and George Schutz leased of John Coates the David Hodges mill on Hurricane Creek, and started a steam distillery, the first in the county, and a great novelty at the time; bought thousands of bushels of corn at 10 cents per bu.; ran it till the Spring of 1849, and sold out his interest to Geo. Schutz; moved to Wilmington and engaged in the mercantile business; was elected justice of the peace that Fall, served six years, and in 1856 was elected sheriff; served two years, living in Carrollton; 1858 had to discharge one of the most disagreeable tasks, that of hanging Hall and Goffner, for the killing of Curren Hinton; he then moved to his farm near Wilmington; in 1862 was appointed government inspector, and in the Fall of 1864 was elected one of the county judges of Greene County for four years; in 1860 was appointed post master at Breese, in Greene County; held the office ever since. Has a family of four boys and three girls, all living in the county and doing well.
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