The History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie, 
BY WILLIAM KITTLE, MADISON, WIS. 
STATE JOURNAL PRINTING CO. 1900.

JOSEPH PATTERSON was born in Omagh, Tyrone county, 
Ireland, September 26, 1836. His father and mother were 
both Scotch. The father was a soldier in Egypt and Spain 
under Sir John Moore. He came to Canada and died in 1846. 
The son, Joseph, worked as a machinist for some years near 
the Niagara Falls and came to Milwaukee in 1855. The next 
year he went to Kansas, where he took an active part in 
the border warfare. In 1859 he came to Mineral Point and 
there married Miss Mary Brew, January 26, 1861. He spent 
one year in Brown county, Ill., and was in the Phoenix 
mills in Milwaukee from 1864-68. He then came to a farm in 
Black Earth, and in 1869 moved to his present farm in 
Mazomanie. From 1882 to 1889 he was on a farm in Spink 
county, S. D. He then returned to Mazomanie, where he now 
resides.

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