HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY
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CHARLES PATTEN (deceased), merchant, Geneva, Ill., born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1814, came to Illinois in 1837, and the same year opened a store in the first frame building erected in Geneva, where he carried on business until his death in 1887. He was one of the founders of the Geneva Unitarian church, and did much to build it up. He married Harriet F. Clarke, daughter of Scotto Clark. She died a few years after her husband, leaving no children.
GEORGE D. PATTEN (deceased), grain dealer and lumber merchant, Geneva, was born in Roxbury (now a part of Boston), Mass., July 24, 1811, the son of William and Sally (Williams) Patten. He was educated in the home schools, and trained to mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia. He remained in that city until 1854, when he came west and settled in Geneva, Ill., whither his brother Charles had preceded him. There he engaged in the lumber and grain trade for many years, dying there in 1887. Mr. Patten was one of the early members of the Geneva Unitarian church, the second body of that denomination to be established in Illinois, and did much to promote its interests. During the years of anti-slavery agitation he belonged to the freedom-loving New England element in the State, and helped forward the movement that finally resulted in the abolition of human slavery. Two of his sons wore the Union blue, and one laid down his life for his country. Mr. Patten was married in 1840 to Miss Eliza Kellum, of Bordentown, N.J.
JOHN C. PATTERSON, physician, Batavia, Ill., was born in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1849, son of Dr. Richard J. Patterson, a widely-known specialist in the treatment of nervous diseases and the founder of Bellevue Place Sanitarium. The subject of this sketch was educated in private and public schools, and graduated from the Chicago Medical College in the class of 1872. He began medical practice at Bellevue Place Sanitarium, being assistant to his father until the latter retired from active practice. Doctor Patterson is still interested in the institution in a proprietary way.
RICHARD J. PATTERSON, M. D. (deceased), founder of Bellevue Place Sanitarium, Batavia, Ill., was born in Berkshire County, Mass., in 1816, a descendant of Andrew Patterson who settled at Stratford, Conn., in 1686; graduated from Berkshire Medical College in 1842, after which he served five years as Superintendent of the State Asylum for the Insane at Columbus, Ohio; still later spent a like period as Medical Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis, Ind., and five years more .in a similar capacity in connection with the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane. With this long experience in the treatment of nervous and mental diseases, Dr. Patterson came to Batavia, and in 1867 founded at that place the Bellevue Place Sanitarium, of which he continued to be proprietor and Superintendent up to the date of his death, which occurred in 1892.
CHARLES P. PAULL, retired farmer, Aurora, Ill., born in Medina County, Ohio, July 12, 1822, son of Richard and Clarinda (Gooding) Paull, was reared on the farm and educated in the local schools, and accompanied the family on its removal to Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Ill., in 1841. Here he began life for himself on an 80-acre tract of Government land which has since been increased by later purchases to an entire section. For forty years he had been engaged in farming and stock-raising when he retired from active business in 1881 to make his home in Aurora. Here he has been identified for some years with the banking interests of the city, being a director of the Aurora National Bank. For six years he was Assessor of Sugar Grove Township, and has also filled other important local offices. Miss Lavina Brooks, who became his wife in 1846, died leaving three daughters and two sons, and his second wife, Jane Abbey, born in New York, was a resident of Kane County from her girlhood. She was killed in a street car accident in Aurora in 1902. Mr. Paull's living children are: Mrs. Ann Waite, of Sugar Grove; Lewis F., Aurora; Mrs. Ella Doty, Sugar Grove; Mrs. Alice Newcomb, of Nebraska; and Charles E., Aurora.
STEPHEN G. PAULL (deceased), pioneer, was born at Bristol, Ontario County, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1812; grew to manhood in Medina County, Ohio, and came to Illinois in 1840, establishing his home in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, where he resided until his death, which occurred April 26, 1875. He was a thoroughly progressive farmer, and was one of the pioneer breeders of fine cattle in Illinois, as well as
