JOHN PATTON

John Patton was born October 15, 1790, in Pleasant Valley, Huntington County, Pa.  In the
 month of June, 1808, he removed to Canton, Ohio, and there for a season pursued the
 occupation of a carpenter. From there, in 1809, he went to Wooster in company with a
 friend, who was engaged to build a small frame house for John Bever, on a lot adjoining the
 public square.  On the arrival of Mr. Patton at Wooster, "the only white men," says he,
 "that we found were Benjamin Miller and his son, Abraham, who were engaged in a trafficking
 business with the Indians, and Matthew Reily and Jack Whitzel who were employed in
 excavating a mill site on Apple Creek, near Wooster, for Joseph Stibbs. Miller and another  man, whose name I do not recollect, were building a log house. We all messed together in an
 Indian camp, enclosed with bark peeled from green trees, until Miller finished his house."
 After the completion of Mr. Bever's house, Mr. Patton returned to Canton. The Secretary of
 the United States Treasury having directed the land office at Canton to be removed to
 Wooster, Mr. Patton was sent to the latter place, April 9, 1815, in charge of the office,
 in consequence of Colonel Sloane, the Receiver, being detained by sickness. In the fall of
 1818 he was appointed postmaster of Wooster in place of Rev. Thomas G. Jones, which office
 has retained about 11 years.  He was one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common
 Pleas with John Nimmons and William Goodfellow, the latter receiving his commission from 
 Governor Jeremiah Morrow, in 1827.  From Wooster he went to Massillon and engaged in
 business with Hiram and Michael Wellman; thence to Bolivar and Navarre, where his wife died
 about 1844. From Navarre he went to one of the Western States, where he lived with his
 daughter, Mrs. Winchester. He died but recently.

Mr. Patton was a man of intelligence, and in his earlier years was a sharp, ready political
 writer.  He had good business habits, but was unfortunate in some of his transactions. He
 was a generous and benevolent man. 	

History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the
 Present Time, published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher