A resident of the township of Canton, was born February 24, 1824, (Headstone says 1828) at Stowe, Vermont, and is the son of Clark and Abigail Pattengell, who were also natives of Vermont. He received his early educational training in the common schools of his native State and in New York, and when he was sixteen years of age began working his own way in the world, gaining that self-reliance and practical knowledge of business which is the foundation of success. He spent the years between 1837 and 1845 in the State of New York, and in the spring of 1845, when seventeen years old, he came to Michigan, and worked on a farm for four years, at the end of which time he began teaching, and taught for fourteen terms. He took up the occupation of teaching in order to obtain money to pay for a farm, which he had purchased the year he had attained his majority. By teaching in winter, and working the farm in summer, by economical habits and hard toil, he succeeded in clearing his farm of encumbrances, and then turned his attention to the bringing it up to a high and profitable state of cultivation.

In September, 1862, he was married to Ann Green, of Farmington. They have had one child, a daughter, named Cora.

Mr. Pattengell was a member of the State Legislature in 1871-72, and for the last eighteen years has been Secretary and Deputy, Treasurer of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Monroe and Wayne Counties. He has been a School Director for twenty years or more, and has served as Town Supervisor for three years, beginning with 1887, and was the first Republican to fill that position since the town was organized-a fact that indicates far better than words can his popularity amongst his fellow townsmen, for the township is strongly Democratic. He is also a member of the Wayne County Jury Commission. being appointed to that position by Governbr Luce, in the spring of I889. He has been a director of the Plymouth National Bank since its organization.

Of quiet and unassuming manners, Mr. Pattengell must be known to be appreciated at his true worth. Starting in life with practically nothing but his arms and intelligence, he has succeeded in placing himself amongst the well-to-do farmers of the county. Of unquestioned integrity, he is respected and esteemed by all who know him. His farm is a model in every respect, indicating the strict and orderly methods of its owner, and showing that his labor and perseverance have been well rewarded.

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