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Original manuscript survey map for the lands belonging to John Patton, covering a significant portion of Tioga Township and Tioga Pennsylvania.
The land shown here is part of a series of tracts acquired by Edward Bartholemew and John Patton in the 1780s, which is no Tioga Township, Tioga Borough and neighoring lands in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Tioga Township is part of Tioga County, whic was formed from Lycoming County in 1808. Tioga Township is one of the two original townships of Tioga County.
John Patton was a native of Philadelphia (1783-1848) was born in Philadelphia and moved to Centre County, Pennsylvania at the age of 8. He married Susan Antes. Prior to marriage, John Patton served in the navy as lieutenant under Commodore Stephen Decatur. Governer Heister appointed Patton as prothonotary of Tioga County, which prompted his move to the area. In 1827, he came to Clearfield county and two years later, 1828 made a permanent location at Curwensville, He served one term as associate judge of the county.
The John Patton whose lands are shown here was the father of John Patton, (January 6, 1823 - December 23, 1897), a U.S. Representative from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He was the father of Charles Emory Patton, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1911-1914), and John Patton Jr., a U.S. Senator from Michigan (1893-1894), and the uncle of William Irvin Swoope, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1923-1926).
Patton was born in Covington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania and moved to Curwensville, Pennsylvania in 1828. He attended the public schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits and lumbering 1844-1860. He organized the First National Bank of Curwensville in 1864 and was elected its president. He the organized the Curwensville Bank, and was elected its president. He was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852 and to the National Convention in 1860.
Patton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862. He was again elected to the Fiftieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888, after which he resumed banking.