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Patton also went to University of Minnesota Mortuary Science. He moved to Blue Earth, Minnesota in 1963, with his wife and family, and was the owner of the Patton Funeral Home. Patton served in the Minnesota Senate from 1973 to 1976 and as mayor of Blue Earth from 1978 to 1983. He was a Republican. Patton died at his home in Blue Earth ...
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On June 16, 1943, he was struck in front of his home by a teenager street racing with another driver. [22] One of his legs was amputated in the crash, and he suffered severe head trauma. He died at Huntington Memorial Hospital a few hours later. [23] His funeral was held June 19 in the chapel of the Turner & Stevens Funeral Home. [24]
George Smith Patton was born June 26, 1833, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and raised in Richmond.He was the son of politician John Mercer Patton.George graduated from Virginia Military Institute (VMl), Class of 1852, second in a class of 24.
John Knight Waters (20 December 1906 – 9 January 1989) was a United States Army four-star general who served as commander, U.S. Army, Pacific from 1964 to 1966. He was also the son-in-law of General George S. Patton.
Patton was described as an intelligent boy and was widely read in classical military history, particularly the exploits of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as those of family friend John Singleton Mosby, who frequently stopped by the Patton family home when George was a child. [5]
George Patton IV (1923–2004), son of George S. Patton and also a U.S. Army general; George Smith Patton (attorney) George S. Patton, Sr. (1833–1864), Confederate colonel and grandfather of George S. Patton; Raymond Stanton Patton (1882–1937), American admiral and engineer, second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
The eight room home was built of bricks manufactured by Brahan's slaves on the site of Sweetwater Creek which lay just below the house. Sweetwater Mansion received its name from the creek and was first occupied by Brahan's son-in-law Robert M. Patton, a post-Civil War governor of Alabama, who completed the mansion in 1835.