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James Patterson

Iowa County

JAMES PATTERSON was born in Miami County, Ohio, October 22, 1837, and died at Marengo, Iowa, February 1, 1924. Burial was at Koszta, Iowa. He came with his parents, Alexander and Sarah Templeton Patterson, in their removal to Honey Creek Township, Iowa County, Iowa, in 1854. He enlisted in Company G, Eighth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, September 3, 1861, was taken prisoner at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, confined in Confederate prison at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, three months, paroled, later exchanged, and mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, September 28, 1864. Farming was his vocation. He held several local offices and in 1891 was elected representative, and was re-elected two years later, serving in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth general assemblies. He retired and removed to Marengo in 1907.

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