Santa
Clara County
Biographies
SAMUEL
F. PATTON
SAMUEL F. PATTON. The success of Mr. Patton since coming to
California has numbered him among the representative men of this
community. He came west in 1862,
locating in Santa Clara county, and at Milpitas engaged in general
farming. In 1885 he purchased his
present property, comprising one hundred acres on the Mt. Hamilton road,
seven miles east of San Jose. In 1888 he
purchased sixty acres just across the road, and in 1898 bought fifty acres on
Alum Rock avenue, six miles east of San Jose. The last-named property is devoted to the
cultivation of hay, while the other ranches are given over to horticultural
purposes and the cultivation of hay.
Before purchasing property Mr. Patton was widely and favorably
known through fourteen years’ association with the Fair estate, of which he
acted as foreman.
Born in County Down, Ireland,
November 4, 1844, Samuel Francis Patton was the son of Andrew and Jane
(Allen) Patton, both of whom were also natives of that locality. Before his marriage Andrew Patton came to
America and located in Ontario, Canada, but he subsequently returned to
Ireland, and there spent the balance of his life. By trade he was a contractor and builder,
following the same until his death in 1901, at the age of seventy-six
years. His wife passed away when
seventy-three years of age. They became
the parents of five sons and one daughter, of whom Samuel was the third in
order of birth. He received his
education in the business college at Belfast, after which, at the age of
eighteen, he came to America and in 1862 located in British Columbia, where he
engaged in the Caribou mines. In the
fall of the same year he came to California and located in Santa Clara county, engaging in general farming operations at Milpitas,
after which he secured the position of foreman for the Fair estate, which he
held from 1887 to 1903. Frugal and
thrifty by nature and training, he accumulated means to make his first purchase
of land, from which has grown his three carefully tended and productive
ranches.
In San Jose Mr. Patton married Catherine
Theresse Doody, a native of Wicklow,
Ireland, who came to the United States in childhood, and was educated in the
schools of New York and San Francisco.
To Mr. and Mrs. Patton were born two sons, Andrew D. and
Frank S., the latter of whom died at the age of six years. Andrew D. is at home with his
parents. In his political preferment
Mr. Patton is a stanch[sic] adherent of the
principles advocated in the platform of the Democratic party.
[Inserted by D.
Toole.]
1933
Apr 10, Oakland Tribune, P23, Oakland, California
Died
Patton
– In San Jose, April 8, Katherine T. Patton, widow of the late Samuel F.
Patton, mother of Andrew D. Patton, a native of Ireland, aged 90 years.
Transcribed by Donna Toole.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 1149-1150. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2016 Donna Toole.