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OLIVER P. PATTERSON, the present County Treasurer and popular boot and shoe merchant of Fairfield,  was born  May 25, 1838, and is a son of Richard M. Patterson and Rachel Fleming. He grew to manhood in his native State, West Virginia, and when nineteen years old went from home and spent several years in various parts of the West. He came to Fairfield in 1861, since which time he has been principally engaged in merchandising, and is now proprietor of an extensive boot and shoe store on South street.  He was elected to the office of County Treasurer, on the Democratic ticket, in 1882. Married in Fairfield, Ill., in 1868, to Miss Nannie Carter, daughter of Charles Carter, of Fairfield. She was born April 9, 1847. He is an A. F. & A. M., and an A. 0. U. W.