William Cornwell Patten

Son of John Patten and Ann Cornwell. Born in 1799, Eastmontmeal, West Pikeland Tw, Chester, Pennsylvania. Died in 1883, Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho. Married first, Elizabeth Harriet Cooper and had one daughter, Mary Ann Patten. When she died he married Julianna Bench in 1826 and had 3 children; George, Ann, and Julia. She died in 1835. He then married the following; Mary Jane Crouse, Elizabeth Anderson, Wealthy Eddy, Jane Carouse. I do not have children listed for the last 3 wives. Came to Utah Oct. 3, 1850, Wilford Woodruff Company."George Patten Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah, Vol. 4, p.390
George Patten, of Payson, was born October 26, 1828, in ChesterCounty, Pennsylvania. His father was William Cornwell Patten, and his mother's maiden name Juliana Bench. The father was a weaver and plasterer, and the family was poor, so that George received little schooling. They lived in Chester County until 1835, on the first dayof which year the mother died, and the father's mother then tookcharge of the household. She was from Philadelphia, to which city the family now moved. When George was eight years old his father sent himto Kent County, Delaware, to live with a cousin and learn farming. He remained there until the fall of 1842, when his father came for himand took him back to Philadelphia."
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