Andrew Patterson

Andrew Patterson (December 15, 1831 – October 24, 1893) was an Irish American immigrant, farmer, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Kenosha County in the 1885 session.

Biography Andrew Patterson was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in December 1831. He received a common education in Ireland until age 13. At that time, in 1841, he emigrated with his parents and his many siblings to the United States. They settled first in the town of Brighton, in what is now Kenosha County, Wisconsin. He worked as a farmhand in Brighton and then in the town of Wheatland, before purchasing his own farm in Salem.

By 1879, he had a successful and productive farm of 316 acres, raising grain and maintaining a herd of sheep.

In 1892, he and his wife took a trip to Europe with their daughter Sarah, visiting England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the trip, he visited the home he grew up in, in County Donegal.

Andrew Patterson died of acute Cholera in October 1893, at his home in Burlington. He and his wife visited the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago just days before his death.