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Date
n.d.
Creation Date
2016
Description
A biography of James Patton, a prominent businessman in Frontenac. Page 478 of "History of Crawford County."
Digital Collection
Frontenac, Kansas Historical Photograph Collection
Object Type
Photograph
Transcription
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY
families are of a longlived race. George Trabue attained the great age of ninety-eight, dying in 1903, and B. F. Patton also died within recent years when a very old man. Granvilie Patton was a Washington county farmer most of the years of his life, but a few years ago retired and came to Crawford county, Kansas, making his home now in Pittsburg. His wife died at the age of twenty-five years.
Dr. Patton lived on the Indiana farm during the first sixteen years of his life, receiving his education in the country schools. In 1879 he came to Kansas and entered a drug store in Cherokee, Crawford county, for the purpose of learning pharmacy. He later studied medicine at Mineral City, with his brother-in-law. Dr. R. S. Mahan, as preceptor. He was engaged in practice in Sherwin, Kansas, for two years, and in 1889 took up his residence in Frontenac, which has been his home town ever since. He had a drug store here and also carried on his practice as a physician. His mercantile and other business interests increased to such an extent that he has about discontinued his professional duties. Besides the large Patton drug store he has an adjoining building devoted to hardware, groceries, furniture and general merchandise lines; he also conducts a lumber yard at Frontenac and another at Englevale, and a livery stable at Frontenac. Recently he has gone into the banking business, having established the Frontenac State Bank and built a large two-story brick building as its home.
During the year 1904 Dr. Patton organized the Frontenac Coal Company, operating midway between Frontenac and Gerard, Kansas, located on the Santa Fe Railroad, and the company has a large tract of coal land purchased adjacent, and will successfully push the new mining industry to a successful end. Dr. Patton has also become interested in the commercial enterprises of the bustling and progressive city of Pittsburg, being half owner of "The Owl Drug Store," associated with Henry Kettler, and this firm is also known in the business circles of Pittsburg and community as "The Caloquine Medicine Company," and they have their own laboratory and compound and
Identifier
Kansas, Frontenac-Patton, James S 034
Image Format
Still Image
Location
Kansas -- Crawford -- Frontenac
Repository
Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University
Publisher Digital
Digital Resource Center, Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University
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