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From the historical files of June E. Tuck, who does not validate or dispute any historical facts in the article.
Past History and Present Stage of Development of Texas
Published by The Forrister History Company
Regan Printing House, Chicago, Ill.
I. G. Forrister, Publisher
(No date given.)
Judge F. W. Patterson was born on a farm in Hunt County, Texas, April 4, 1870, his branch of the family being directly
related to that of the Patterson family at Memphis, Tenn., including Josiah Patterson, for many years in Congress, and
his son, Malcom R. Patterson, ex-Congressman and ex-Governor of Tennessee. His father, J. H. Patterson, came from the Old
Volunteer State to Texas prior to the civil war, and though a farmer from early training, served for a number of years as
Deputy and County Clerk of Hunt county. Before marriage his mother was a Miss Lee Burgess, of Pittsburg, Texas, and was
also a former Tennessean. His father died six and the mother four years ago, respectively. Leaving home without a change
of cloths, with but thirty-five cents of coin in his "jeans," he acquired his literary education after he was twenty-one
years of age at his own expense. First night out he slept in a wheat field one mile south of Commerce, and used wheat
bundles for a pillow, bed and covering. Upon leaving home he became a railway section hand, "tallow-dip and midnight
oil." A few days after he landed in Mt. Vernon he decided to learn the blacksmith trade, and for fourteen years pursued
the same at this place and Sulphur Bluff, this county. While in Sulphur Bluff he was elected Justice of Peace and also
engaged in the drug business, holding his office for five years, and after seven years’s study became a registered state
pharmacist and holds a certificate to this effect at the present time. In 1908, Judge Patterson was elected County Judge
by a majority of sixty votes. In the July primary of 1910 his majority was 2,300 votes, with no opposition in the
following November election. On Dec. 3, 1891, Judge Patterson was married to Miss Nellie Glass, of Mt. Vernon, her
father, H. C. Glass, being a native of Arkansas, farmer and stock-raiser, and her mother a former Miss Theo King, of
Daingerfield, Texas. Mrs. Patterson is also a cousin of Gen. Hiram Glass, general railroad attorney of Austin, and her
brother, W. B. Glass, is the foreign missionary representative of the Rehoboth Association, being now stationed at
Laichowfu, China. Three daughters and one son have blessed the marriage. The family worship with the Baptist church and
Mrs. Patterson and eldest daughter, Miss Alma, belong to the Fraternal Brotherhood. Judge Patterson also belongs to the
Fraternal Brotherhood, the Masons, and W. O. W. He owns valuable property in Pittsburg, Sulphur Bluff and Sulphur
Springs, and farming acreage in Hopkins county.
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