Councilor Robert M. G. Patterson View All Years
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Robert M. G. Patterson
Lee County
Born November 4, 1789, in New Jersey. Mr. Patterson came to Keokuk in 1839 on a boat which he had built, the trip being made down the Ohio River and up the Mississippi. Within an hour after they board the steamer, it burned with all its contents and Mr. Patterson lost all of his possessions in this disaster, and one man was burned to death, while another was drowned. The family proceeded to St. Louis and on another boat to Warsaw, where Mr. Patterson worked at carpentering for a year. In 1840, he moved across the Mississippi River, living in the midst of a heavy timbered district, in which Indians were still seen. He was a leading and influential factor in the early development of Lee County, Iowa, and represented Lee County as a Councilor in the Fifth and Sixth Legislative Assemblies of the Iowa Territory. In 1849, Mr. Patterson removed with his family to Montgomery County, where he conducted a grocery store. He died April 22, 1864, in Montgomery County.
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