Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 311

ENOCH A. PATRICK, carpenter, was born in Putnam County, Ind., Aug-
ust 14, 1837, and is the seventh child in a family of eleven children born to
Gabriel and Keziah (Williams) Patrick, the former of whom was a native of
Virginia, and the latter of Bath County, Ky.  They were of English and Irish
descent, respectively.  Gabriel Patrick received a good common school and
academic education in Bath County, Ky., where he married, and soon after-
ward, in 1826, removed to Putnam County, Ind., where he had the year 
before entered forty acres of wild land near Greencastle, erected a rude log
cabin, and improved a farm.  To this he afterward added forty acres, and 
erected one of the first brick dwellings in Putnam County.  In 1837, he sold
this farm and bought another of 160 acres, in the southeast part of the same
county, where he resided until 1847.  He then came to Adams Township,
Morgan Co., Ind., and bought a farm of 211 acres, upon which he resided
until his death, which occurred in May, 1864, in his sixtieth year.  Mr. Pat-
rick was also a veteran teacher, having taught for more than twenty consecu-
tive winters.  He and wife were members of the Baptist Church.  Enoch A.
Patrick, the subject, received a limited common school education.  At the
age of eighteen, he went to learn the carpenter's trade, which, after serving
an apprenticeship of one year, he followed for another year.  He then en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits for about six years, when he resumed the 
carpenter's trade.  In 1873, he was employed as a salesman in a general
store, continuing therein until in Janaury, 1881, when he sold out, and 
was engaged in the saw mill business for two years.  He then resumed the
carpenter's trade, and is still so employed.  In March, 1876, he lost both 
his store and dwelling house by fire, sustaining a loss of $3,000.  In 1878,
he erected a a two story brick store building at Eminence, which he still
owns.  He was married, January 8, 1857, to Elizabeth A. Leonard, a
native of Putnam County, Ind.  Eleven children have been born to them,
only five of whom, three sons and two daughters, are now living.  Mr.
Patrick and wife are members of the Baptist Church.  He is also a mem-
ber of Eminence Lodge, No. 440, A., F. & A. M., in which lodge he 
was the first man raised, and of which lodge he is a Past Master.  He is
also a member of Gosport Chapter, R. A. M.   In politics, he is a Demo-
crat, and is one of the old and representative citizens of the township
and county.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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