MUNGO PATTERSON FAMILY

On May 4, 1844, Mungo Patterson (1814-1906) and his wife Agnes (Clow) (1814-1890) and their first son, John W. (1843-1915) arrived in Naperville by stage coach from Chicago, along with Agnes’s father (Robert Clow 1787-1870) and her six brothers and two sisters. Two hired wagons brought part of their luggage and boxes, and the family rented living quarters in a house near where the present Naperville Post Office is located. Two days later, two Clow men went back to Chicago to inquire where some “wild land” could be had.

On May 18, 1844, the men went south of Naperville to see some prairie land near the DuPage River. They were pleased with one 90 acre tract and one whole section (640 acres in section 15 of Wheatland Township) and were to go to Chicago on the following Monday to record the land deed.

A break in the written record of the Patterson and Clow families of about a year was resumed in June, 1845, when progress of building on the deeded land was being reported on.

Robert L. Patterson, Sr. was born in the rental house in Naperville on November 18, 1844. When the Clow homestead house in Wheatland was completed, the Patterson and Clow families moved into this house on December 6, 1844. All lived together until the Mungo Patterson house was completed on September 26, 1845 at which time Mungo and Agnes and then their two sons moved into the house.

Robert L. Patterson, the second child in a family of four boys and two girls helped with the home farming until he married Elizabeth Sinton (Born March 15, 1844) of Solway Bank, Scotland on March 31, 1866. He and his family farmed in Dupage Township, Will County for the rest of his life. The first farm that Robert farmed was on Weber Road, one-half mile south of 111th Street. He then moved to farm on Old Chicago Road (now Boughton Road) in 1833.

When Robert and Elizabeth three sons became old enough to do most of the farming, Robert attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and received his certificate for Evangelical preaching. He then preached from 1887 to 1900 at the Dupage Presbyterian Church located on Naperville-Joliet Road. He died on January 15, 1900.

Three sons and three daughters were born of this union—Mary Isabelle (Emery) 1/20/1867 to 4/18/1950; Robert Jr., 12/11/1870 to 11/3/1954; Ruth (Sheldon) 9/9/1874 to 9/2/1959; Mungo John 7/31/1876 to 7/21/1964 (never married); William Henry 6/28/1878 to 3/27/1959; Ida Luella (Hartong) 8/15/1882 to 12/19/1960.

William H (Wid) with his brother Mungo farmed the home farm on Old Chicago Road (now Boughton Road) for their mother after their father’s death on January 15, 1900. William married Roberta Mather (6/24/1879 to 9/12/1967) on June 28, 1900. They lived in the family home until April 1, 1913 when they moved to the Glavey Farm, which they bought. To this union were born five children: Emery Robert (7/25/1901 to 12/27/1901); Elizabeth Ida (Wiesbrock) (3/24/1905 to 5/6/1945); Frances Mabel (born 6/1/1913)—never married; Warren J. (4/17/1918 to 12/11/1984)—never married; Helen M. (5/25/1920 to 5/26/1920).

Frances and Warren never married and stayed on the home farm helping their parents. Both of them lead an active life in the community as well as in their church (Dupage Presbyterian Church) which their family of the previous three generations had attended. They both lived in the family home in which they were born. The farm is currently being farmed by the David Wiesbrock family.