Portrait & Biographical Album of Jackson, Jefferson, & Pottawatomie Co., Ks., Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, l885, page 757
Ebenezer Patrick was a native of Vermont, and a printer by trade. In 1816, he turned his back on the Green Mountain State, emigrated to Indiana and settled in Salem. At that time the Hoosier State lay, so far as the course of civilization had run, on the very "outside of the world." Mr. Patrick found Salem a small place and the country about it sparsely settled, but the pioneers were men of pluck, daring and enterprise, and the rapid increase of their numbers soon gave Mr. Patrick a constituency sufficiently large to justify him in establishing a newspaper in their midst. Associating himself with Mr. Beebee Booth, Father of Hon. Newton Booth, ex-United States Senator from California, Mr. Patrick became the senior partner in the firm of Patrick & Booth, editors and proprietors of the Tocsin, Salem's pioneer newspaper, the first number of which made its appearance, March 17, 1818.
At that time there were but few papers published in Indiana, and the Tocsin soon became "the news, advertising and publication medium for the counties of Washington, Jackson, Monroe, Lawrence, Orange, Floyd" and an area compared with which the limits now covered by the ordinary country newspaper seem very small and greatly circumscribed. Mr. Patrick, who was a practical printer, is described as a man of "versatile genius." He was industrious, energetic and enterprising, a thorough workman, a terse, vigorous and courageous writer, able at will to make a most effective use of either wit or sarcasm. He continued in the newspaper business with varying success and as editor of several different papers at Salem until 1833, when he went to Madison and bought an interest in the Madison Banner, which he conducted until 1835.
Mr. Patrick then entered the Indiana Conference and actively connected himself with the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he continued until he death at Princeton in 1844, when about fifty years of age. From a centennial sketch published in the Salem Democrat, Feb. 23, 1876, it is learned that he was an Associate Judge of Washington County after Indiana's admission into the Union and that his decisions embodied what he believed to be the principles of justice and equite and were delivered in plain, simple language.
Ebenezer and Sarah had nine children, but three died in infancy--Rachel, Lara Ann, and Samuel.
Ebenezer Patrick was a native of Vermont, and a printer by trade. In 1816, he turned his back on the Green Mountain State, emigrated to Indiana and settled in Salem. At that time the Hoosier State lay, so far as the course of civilization had run, on the very "outside of the world." Mr. Patrick found Salem a small place and the country about it sparsely settled, but the pioneers were men of pluck, daring and enterprise, and the rapid increase of their numbers soon gave Mr. Patrick a constituency sufficiently large to justify him in establishing a newspaper in their midst. Associating himself with Mr. Beebee Booth, Father of Hon. Newton Booth, ex-United States Senator from California, Mr. Patrick became the senior partner in the firm of Patrick & Booth, editors and proprietors of the Tocsin, Salem's pioneer newspaper, the first number of which made its appearance, March 17, 1818.
At that time there were but few papers published in Indiana, and the Tocsin soon became "the news, advertising and publication medium for the counties of Washington, Jackson, Monroe, Lawrence, Orange, Floyd" and an area compared with which the limits now covered by the ordinary country newspaper seem very small and greatly circumscribed. Mr. Patrick, who was a practical printer, is described as a man of "versatile genius." He was industrious, energetic and enterprising, a thorough workman, a terse, vigorous and courageous writer, able at will to make a most effective use of either wit or sarcasm. He continued in the newspaper business with varying success and as editor of several different papers at Salem until 1833, when he went to Madison and bought an interest in the Madison Banner, which he conducted until 1835.
Mr. Patrick then entered the Indiana Conference and actively connected himself with the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he continued until he death at Princeton in 1844, when about fifty years of age. From a centennial sketch published in the Salem Democrat, Feb. 23, 1876, it is learned that he was an Associate Judge of Washington County after Indiana's admission into the Union and that his decisions embodied what he believed to be the principles of justice and equite and were delivered in plain, simple language.
Ebenezer and Sarah had nine children, but three died in infancy--Rachel, Lara Ann, and Samuel.
Portrait & Biographical Album of Jackson, Jefferson, & Pottawatomie Co., Ks., Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, l885, page 757
Ebenezer Patrick was a native of Vermont, and a printer by trade. In 1816, he turned his back on the Green Mountain State, emigrated to Indiana and settled in Salem. At that time the Hoosier State lay, so far as the course of civilization had run, on the very "outside of the world." Mr. Patrick found Salem a small place and the country about it sparsely settled, but the pioneers were men of pluck, daring and enterprise, and the rapid increase of their numbers soon gave Mr. Patrick a constituency sufficiently large to justify him in establishing a newspaper in their midst. Associating himself with Mr. Beebee Booth, Father of Hon. Newton Booth, ex-United States Senator from California, Mr. Patrick became the senior partner in the firm of Patrick & Booth, editors and proprietors of the Tocsin, Salem's pioneer newspaper, the first number of which made its appearance, March 17, 1818.
At that time there were but few papers published in Indiana, and the Tocsin soon became "the news, advertising and publication medium for the counties of Washington, Jackson, Monroe, Lawrence, Orange, Floyd" and an area compared with which the limits now covered by the ordinary country newspaper seem very small and greatly circumscribed. Mr. Patrick, who was a practical printer, is described as a man of "versatile genius." He was industrious, energetic and enterprising, a thorough workman, a terse, vigorous and courageous writer, able at will to make a most effective use of either wit or sarcasm. He continued in the newspaper business with varying success and as editor of several different papers at Salem until 1833, when he went to Madison and bought an interest in the Madison Banner, which he conducted until 1835.
Mr. Patrick then entered the Indiana Conference and actively connected himself with the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he continued until he death at Princeton in 1844, when about fifty years of age. From a centennial sketch published in the Salem Democrat, Feb. 23, 1876, it is learned that he was an Associate Judge of Washington County after Indiana's admission into the Union and that his decisions embodied what he believed to be the principles of justice and equite and were delivered in plain, simple language.
Ebenezer and Sarah had nine children, but three died in infancy--Rachel, Lara Ann, and Samuel.
Ebenezer Patrick was a native of Vermont, and a printer by trade. In 1816, he turned his back on the Green Mountain State, emigrated to Indiana and settled in Salem. At that time the Hoosier State lay, so far as the course of civilization had run, on the very "outside of the world." Mr. Patrick found Salem a small place and the country about it sparsely settled, but the pioneers were men of pluck, daring and enterprise, and the rapid increase of their numbers soon gave Mr. Patrick a constituency sufficiently large to justify him in establishing a newspaper in their midst. Associating himself with Mr. Beebee Booth, Father of Hon. Newton Booth, ex-United States Senator from California, Mr. Patrick became the senior partner in the firm of Patrick & Booth, editors and proprietors of the Tocsin, Salem's pioneer newspaper, the first number of which made its appearance, March 17, 1818.
At that time there were but few papers published in Indiana, and the Tocsin soon became "the news, advertising and publication medium for the counties of Washington, Jackson, Monroe, Lawrence, Orange, Floyd" and an area compared with which the limits now covered by the ordinary country newspaper seem very small and greatly circumscribed. Mr. Patrick, who was a practical printer, is described as a man of "versatile genius." He was industrious, energetic and enterprising, a thorough workman, a terse, vigorous and courageous writer, able at will to make a most effective use of either wit or sarcasm. He continued in the newspaper business with varying success and as editor of several different papers at Salem until 1833, when he went to Madison and bought an interest in the Madison Banner, which he conducted until 1835.
Mr. Patrick then entered the Indiana Conference and actively connected himself with the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he continued until he death at Princeton in 1844, when about fifty years of age. From a centennial sketch published in the Salem Democrat, Feb. 23, 1876, it is learned that he was an Associate Judge of Washington County after Indiana's admission into the Union and that his decisions embodied what he believed to be the principles of justice and equite and were delivered in plain, simple language.
Ebenezer and Sarah had nine children, but three died in infancy--Rachel, Lara Ann, and Samuel.
Gravesite Details
Research has failed to locate burial records for Ebenezer. He is being placed in Warnock Cemetery based on information from the historical society which says Warnock is the oldest cemetery in Princeton and likely burial place for an 1844 death.
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