Representative Daniel John Patton View All Years

HON. DANIEL J. PATTON.

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of Hon. Daniel J. Patton, an honored member of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies, beg leave to submit the following report:

The subject of this memorial was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1836. He was the son of a Baptist minister and when a mere lad came west with his parents who located at Juda, Green County, Wisconsin. Here he attended common school and later attended the Baptist Academy at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, receiving what was regarded in those days a most liberal education. On the 13th of September, 1855, he was married at Juda, Wisconsin, to Sarah E. Gapen. To this union six children were born. He moved to Franklin County, Iowa, in 1869 where he continued to reside to the time of his death, which occurred March 14, 1910, surviving his wife about eight years.

Though a farmer by occupation he was always interested in public affairs and held many offices of trust in his community and was careful and painstaking in the discharge of the duties of each.

Mr. Patton was always a strict party adherent and in 1900, having received the Republican nomination for representative, he was elected to the Twenty-eigth, and two years later to the Twenty-ninth General Assemblies, discharging the duties imposed thereby in an honorable, faithful and impartial manner.

Faithful to every obligation, loyal to his friends, contributing to the happiness of others he was accorded the gratitude of a wide circle of acquaintances.

His home life was commendable to a degree; he was a good husband, a kind and indulgent father, ever on the alert for the welfare of his family.

Although he was active in public and political affairs his methods were such that he gained the confidence and respect, the esteem of his neighbors, friends and all who were associated with him in every walk in life.

Ripe in experience, sound in judgment, wise in the application of good common sense, he discharged every obligation to his family, society, and the state with fidelity and honor, therefore be it

Resolved, That the foregoing memorial be adopted by this House and entered upon the Journal thereof and that an engrossed copy duly authenticated by the Speaker and Clerk of the House be sent to the members of his family.

N. W. BEEBE,

I. A. SMITH,

F. W. O’CONNOR,

Committee.

Adopted.