My Maternal Grandfather - George William Patton. Husband of Minnie Louellen (Leonard) Patton; father of 17 children. George William Patton was born October 10, 1898 in Weir City (Cherokee County) Kansas to Louis Franklin and Letha Elisabeth (Phipps) Patton.
George was a miner by trade and worked the tri-state area of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Around 1940 the family moved to Tulsa (Tulsa County) Oklahoma where George lived when he died August 27, 1953.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The Eisenhower Years - A Time of Optimism and Growth
After the Great Depression and World War II, everyone was ready to take a breath and have fun. Population boomed, families moved to the suburbs, television (by the end of the decade) would be in most...
Coming out of the Great Depression, the world faced another challenge in the 1940's: World War II. Although the war began in the 1930's, it expanded and gained in ferocity (and atrocities) in the 194...
Photos of the harsh living and working conditions of miners and prospectors and of the men who endured this life.
The lives of miners and prospectors involved grueling, backbreaking, and dangerous work with long hours and low pay. Especially in coal mining: workers and their families lived in company housing, sh...
I am researching Wheeler, Burger, Messer, Patton, Barnes, Stokes, Starnes, Phipps, Whitney, Robinson, Housor, Weiesnbach, Raines, Tuttle, Baker, Thompson, Cawthon, Lacefield, Valdivia, Rea and Kibat. These are just among a few.