N.N. PATTEN, M.D., is a physician of large practice and wide reputation, one who has earned his success in life, beginning when a boy on his father's farm, in the endeavor to climb the ladder of life. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Union township, Washington county, January 11, 1847, a son of William (a farmer) and Isabella (Porter) Patten, the latter of whom was a sister of Mrs. Morrison (mother of Mrs. Alexander, of Monongahela City). They were the parents of nine children, of whom the following is a brief record: one son died in infancy; Matthew is a farmer in Iowa; Martha and Elizabeth are both residents of Union township, this county; Mary is the wife of Thomas Estep, and lives in East End, Pittsburgh, Penn.; William J. is a farmer in Kansas; Sarah Belle lives in Union township; Newton N. is the subject of this sketch; J. Alfred is in Union township. The father died in 1886, aged eighty-seven years four months; the mother is yet living, aged eighty-eight years seven months. N.N. Patten received a liberal education at the common schools of his native township, which was supplemented with a course of study at Elder's Ridge (Penn.) Academy. Subsequently he entered Washington and Jefferson College, from which he graduated in 1869. He then commenced the study of medicine in Monongahela City with Dr. M.P. Morrison, a cousin, and attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, which granted him his degree of M.D. in 1873. Dr. Patten at once commenced the practice of his profession in Pittsburgh, Penn., which he followed there with eminent success for a period of ten years; then for three years was the head physician at the Pittsburgh City Farm, Homestead, Penn. In 1886 Dr. Patten removed to Monongahela City, where he has since been in the general practice of his profession, his ride being a very wide one, his skill as a physician, and his courteous and social manner as a gentleman, having made him extremely popular, and surrounded him with hosts of friends. The Doctor in politics is a Republican; in church connection, a Presbyterian.

Text taken from page 162 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1997 by Jack McNatt of Valrico, FL as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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