FULTON COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed for use by Ohio Biographies Project
by Janet Wilkinson Schwartz (wilkinschw@aol.com)
December 2002
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History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio.  Lewis Cass Aldrich, ed.  Syracuse,
NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888.

PATTERSON, EDWIN H., Dover, Emery p.o., a farmer, and a pioneer of Dover, 
settled in Chesterfield with his parents in 1838.  He was born in Allegheny 
[sic] county, N.Y., in 1823, and was a son of GEORGE W. and EMILY HOPKINS 
PATTERSON.  They were born in New Hampshire, and married in Allegheny county, 
where EMILY died in 1831.  G.W. married his second wife, JANE CARTER.  EMILY 
left three children, two of whom are now living: EDWIN H. and EDWARD W.  They 
all settled in Fulton county, O., in 1838, where GEORGE W. died in 1869, leaving 
a widow and three children.  EDWIN H. attended the common schools when an 
opportunity favored him.  He was reared on a farm.  He chose farming for an 
occupation, and in 1844 became engaged in that pursuit.  In 1847 he purchased 
his present homestead of 80 acres, paying therefor $240.  He now owns a farm of 
245 acres.  He was married in 1860 to CLARA ELDRIDGE, who was born in Summit 
county, in 1835.  They have had a family of two children: CORA E. and WILLIS E. 
 CLARA was a daughter of HARVEY ELDREDGE [sic] and EUNICE (BROWN) ELDREDGE who 
settled in Chesterfield, in 1862.