Dr. Adolphus Leander Patten
Mineola, Wood County, Texas
Marker Inscription
(1823-1900) Adolphus Patten was born in North Carolina to Elijah and Nancy Watson Patten. He opened a medical practice in Rome, Georgia, where he married Emeline Eliza Trout in 1846. In 1854, they set out with family members to California via Texas but settled in Quitman instead. Patten worked as a physician, and he was active in civic affairs and as a Mason. During the Civil War, he served as surgeon with the 22nd Texas Regiment. The family moved to Mineola in the 1870s, and Patten continued practicing medicine. Recorded - 2006
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Born in North Carolina in 1823, Dr. Adolphus Leander Patten trained as a physician and set out for California in 1854, only to settle in Quitman, Texas, instead. He practiced medicine, took an active role in civic life and Masonic affairs, and served as a surgeon with the 22nd Texas Regiment during the Civil War. In the 1870s he moved his family to Mineola, where he continued caring for patients until his death in 1900.
Why it matters
Patten's life traces the frontier country doctor who followed westward migration and then served the Confederate war effort, a figure common to the settling of nineteenth-century Texas.
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