A doctor with a record of good service in public office in his own county is a man who will do well in the legislature. Dr. I. Pattison, of Oelwein, comes to Des Moines this winter from Fayette county with a good record behind him. His county seems to have a weakness for putting physicians in office of late years. He is the second doctor in six years to be given the place of Representative, while the Senator all the time has been one of the medical gentlemen. Dr. Pattison was born in Canada in 1840. His parents moved to New York State while he was a boy and gave him good school training. He was in the vigor of young manhood at the outbreak of the war and lost no time in enlisting. At first he was a private in company H, 105th New York volunteers, then private in company H, 187th New York volunteers, brigade hospital steward, second brigade, first division, fifth army corps. Army of the Potomac. He was wounded August 9, 1862, and discharged for disability in January, 1863. In October of the same year he re-enlisted and served until mustered out July 3, 1865. Returning to private life he took up the study of medicine in the University of Buffalo, New York. He received a diploma from that institution and came to Iowa in 1870, locating in Fayette county. For over twenty years he has resided there and built up an extensive practice. He was first at Otsego, where he held the position of postmaster from 1870 to 1883. He moved to Oelwein soon after. In 1887 he was elected mayor of that city, re-elected twice, and was coroner of Fayette county during the years 1889 and 1890. Last fall he was chosen by the Republicans of the county for Representative. Dr. Pattison is a member of the Mystic Shriners and several other Masonic lodges, the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Episcopalian Church.
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