Brief Life History of Thomas Clark
When Thomas Clark Patten, Sr. was born on 30 August 1841, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry C Patten, was 28 and his mother, Ann Clark, was 28. He married Mary Ann Newman on 23 May 1864, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1913. He died on 3 February 1913, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Patten, "United States Census, 1870"
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Thomas C Patten, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English:
occasionally a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of clogs, from Middle English paten ‘clog’ (Old French patin).
variant of Patton (a Middle English pet form of Patrick) with -in substituted for -on.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Patten and Newman Crossing the Plains in 1864
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