Biography of Gilbert I. Patterson, pages 746 / 747.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Gilbert I. Patterson.-Among the prominent citizens of De Kalb County, none 
are more worthy of notice than the gentleman, whose name stands at the head 
of this sketch.  He was born near Canandaigua, N.Y., April 5, 1834.  He is a 
twin son of William and Rachel (Ireland) Patterson, native of New York, and 
probably of Irish descent.  In 1836 they settled in Steuben County, then a 
dense wilderness.  In 1838 Mr. Patterson died, leaving his wife with six 
children to care for.  After this our subject lived with John R. Moody, his 
brother-in-law, in De Kalb County, till of age, at which time he went on a 
prospecting tour through the Western States and purchased land at Government 
price in Waupaca County, Wis.  March 10, 1859, he was married to Mary Ann, 
daughter of George De Long, and early settler of De Kalb County, and with 
his wife moved to their new home in the West, remaining there about three 
years.  In the fall of 1861 they returned to this county where his wife 
died March 28, 1862, leaving one son---John R., who died aged about three 
years.  The following August he sold his Wisconsin property and enlisted 
Oct. 12, 1862, in Company H, Thirtieth Indiana Infantry, serving ten months.  
He was discharged July 31, 1863, and then took another trip West, going 
through Texas and New Mexico, returning in 1864, and in November of that 
year enlisted in Company H, Fifty-third Indiana Infantry, and served till 
the close of the war, participating in the grand military review in 
Washington, June, 1865; was discharged July 21, 1865, at Indianapolis and 
returned to his home in De Kalb County.  March 1, 1866, he was married to 
Mrs. Eliza E., widow of Harry McClellan, and daughter of John T. George.  
He lived on a farm west of Corunna one summer, and then purchased where he 
now lives in Richland Township, owning at this time 140 acres of highly 
improved land.  Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson---
Mary Ann, Clara Ellen, Amy Estella, Ida Irene and Rosa.  Mr. Patterson has 
held many local offices of trust and responsibility.  Politically he is a 
Democrat.  He and his wife are members of the German Baptist church.  Mr. 
Patterson is a self-made man in every sense of the term, and from his 
means, which are ample, contributes with unstinted hand to every laudable 
enterprise, calculated to benefit the public.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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