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Below is a family biography included in The History of Wright County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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Judge T. H. Patterson, of Mansfield, Wright County, Mo., was born in Indiana, on the 9th of April, 1826, and was there reared to manhood and educated in the common schools, becoming, in after years, a popular local educator of Clark County. On the 17th of March, 1859, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hunter, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1831, but was reared in Indiana. She was also a successful teacher in the public schools of that State, and has taught one term of school since coming to Missouri. Of a number of children born to them, only one is known to be living at the present time, Hannah Florence. Thomas A. left home, and has not been heard from for five years. Those deceased are George W., aged three years; Margaret, an infant; Robert K., aged fourteen years; John, aged ten years, and Mary E., who was a public school-teacher of Wright and Webster Counties, and while visiting friends in another portion of the State took sick, and died quite suddenly. Her birth occurred in September, 1863, and her death July 24, 1888. The mother of these children died December 13, 1878. During the late war Judge Patterson served in Company C, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and after the cessation of hostilities came to Missouri and located in Newton County, where he lived three years, and was engaged in pedagoguing. In 1871 he came to where Mansfield now is, where he followed the same occupation, and was also engaged in tilling the soil. He has held the office of justice of the peace for a number of years, and has also served one term of four years as presiding judge of the Wright County Court. He was a high license man for several years. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Christian Church, and owns a good farm of 160 acres. His father, Robert Patterson, was a native of County Down, Ireland, and was born about 1789. After leaving there he lived in Scotland some time, and in 1811 came to America, and joined the United States troops in the War of 1812. He located in Maryland, and was there married to Miss Hannah Hill, and soon afterward moved to Kentucky, thence to Indiana, dying in the latter State, on Christmas Day, 1852. His wife was born in Maryland in 1797, and died in Clark County, Ind., in 1884. They were the parents of three sons and four daughters. Two of the daughters and one son are now living.

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This family biography is one of 90 biographies included in The History of Wright County, Missouri published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Wright County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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