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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

energy of their wonderful race pushed westward to find ample room and untrammeled freedom. They came about the commencement of the present century and were pioneer settlers in one section of Juniata county. Fom this Patterson settlement Samuel Patterson (grandfather) removed to the Manor settlement of Indiana county, when the latter was largely a wilderness. He was a Presbyterian, like most of his race, and cleared a large farm, on which he died about 1830, at fifty years of age. He supplied his table with meat by killing bear and deer, which then were plenty in that section. He married Elizabeth Evans, and they sleep side by side in the Presbyterian cemetery at Penn Run or Greenville, in Indiana county. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters: John, William, Thomas, Robert, Mrs. Elizabeth Eigness, Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin, and Mrs. Nancy Lockhart. Thomas Patterson, father, was born in the Manor settlement, July 7, 1814, and lived to be seventy-four years of age, dying May 11, 1888. He was a shoemaker by trade, spent several years as a clerk in a store at Caseyville, Kentucky, taught school in Indiana county for fourteen consecutive terms, and passed the latter part of his life in agricultural pursuits on a Green township farm. He was a whig and a republican in politics and a member and class-leader of the Methodist Protestant church, in which he was a pillar of strength in times of darkness or periods of depression.     He served fifteen years as a justice of the peace, was noted as a man of stainless character and excellent judgment, and enjoyed the respect and confidence of all who knew him. Thomas Patterson married Magdalene Dunkle, who is a daughter of John Dunkle, a member of the Dunkle family of York county. Mrs. Patterson, who is still living, was born in

Brush Valley township, Indiana county, 1821. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson had nine children: Hon. Samuel D., John W., residing on the old homestead; Kezia N., wife of R. F. Templeton, a farmer; William E., Martin L., and Robert N., all farmers in their native township; Caroline M. married John T. Evans, a farmer of Cambria township, this county; Mary Ellen, wife of Evan Davis, of Buffington township, Indiana county, where he owns a farm; and Emma Catherine, who married William Douglass, a farmer of her native township.     Hon. Samuel D. Patterson was reared on the farm and learned the trade of shoemaker with his father. He went through the common schools and then entered Pine Flat academy, which he left in a few weeks to enter the Union army, at the early age of seventeen years. He enlisted on August 10, 1862, in Company I, Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania infantry, and served until June 19, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Harrisburg. He was taken prisoner at Milroy's defeat at Winchester, June 15, 1863, and spent three months in Libby prison, Castle Thunder and on Bell Island, being paroled in September. He was then sent to the parole camp at Annapolis, where he remained until exchanged in March, 1864, and sent back to his regiment, with which he served until June 20, 1864, when at the battle of White House Landing, he was captured a second time and sent to Georgia to spend ten months in Andersonville, Millen, Savannah, Thomasville and Blackshire prisons of that State. He was released April 28, 1865, at Andersonville, and sent to Harrisburg by the way of Jacksonville, Florida. Returning home, he went to school that winter, attended the Pine Flat academy one session and then taught one term in a neighbor-

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