Robert Ireland, Sr.<\/strong><\/a> The primary job of the new trustees was to approve a petition signed by township property owners that the township be incorporated as the new Village of Bratenahl.\u00a0 The trustees approved the petition and called an election on November 21, 1904, on the question of whether the township should be incorporated as a village.\u00a0 The voters unanimously approved the petition. The township trustees next called an election on December 13, 1904, to elect the new village officials.\u00a0 At that election, James Patton was elected one of the five original members of Bratenahl City Council, a position he held from 1905 to 1909.<\/p>\nJames A. Patton was born in Alloa, Scotland.\u00a0 He came to Ohio in 1849 at the urging of his uncle Alexander Patton.\u00a0 The elder Patton is said to have landed in Cleveland with two cents.\u00a0 Within several years Alexander, known as Sandy, established his own business, the Patton Soap Factory, in a brick building in the Flats off Columbus Road. He built a home located at 378 Doan Avenue (East 105th Street) and sent for his nephew.<\/p>\n
Eventually James acquired almost seven acres of land along Doan Avenue (East 105th<\/sup> Street) including the home built by Sandy.\u00a0\u00a0 His rectangle shaped property was located north of the Foster and Moses development and would eventually be severed by Brighton Road.\u00a0 He made his living growing fruits and vegetables on his property.\u00a0 The family sold fruit at a stand on the southwest corner of Doan (Bratenahl Road) and Burton, near their orchards and home.<\/p>\nJames married his wife Sarah on December 17, 1874.\u00a0 They had two sons Alexander and A. B.\u00a0 Sarah was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1840 and came to Cleveland when she was 8 years old.\u00a0 Her family lived first on Old Garden Street, which is now Central Avenue in Cleveland.\u00a0 Sarah Patton was a member of the United Presbyterian Church when East 9th<\/sup> Street was known as Erie Street.\u00a0 She was a charter member of the Glenville Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\nA 17-lot development known as the Haldeman & Patton Allotment on the south side of Lake Shore Boulevard west of Doan Street was entered at the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office 1903. Dwight D. Haldeman, Frank M. Haldeman, and James Patton developed this area. To maximize sales of land in his allotment, Patton laid out Birchton Road (Brighton Avenue).<\/p>\n
In 1906, when the village was seeking a location to build an elementary school, James offered to sell a portion of his land as a site for the new school building.\u00a0 Initially, the Bratenahl Board of education leased the parcel at an annual rental of $360, on which was built the first building of the Bratenahl School.\u00a0 James and Sarah Patton eventually sold the parcel to the school district for $6,000.\u00a0 The deed was recorded on March 28, 1908.<\/p>\n
Sarah died in April 1932.\u00a0 James died on May 27, 1934, at the age of 84 at the family residence located at 378 East 105th<\/sup> Street.\u00a0 He had lived in the same house for 77 years.\u00a0 \u00a0Sarah and James Patton are buried at the East Cleveland Cemetery.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to History\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEarly Settlers List\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History Early Settlers James and Sarah Patton 378 East 105th Street James A. Patton was one of the founders of Bratenahl.\u00a0 On November 8, 1904, the voters in the newly created Bratenahl Township selected James Patton as one of three township trustees.\u00a0 The other trustees were Liberty Holden and Robert Ireland, Sr. The primary job…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8075","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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