Patterson Township Historical Society

05/23/2026

Need Docents for the Museum @ Fiesta message me if interested

05/08/2026

Patterson Library is celebrating their 50th Anniversary if you have any pictures LMK

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05/01/2026

PATTERSON TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOC. MEETING SAT MAY 2ND 2PM
BARNSTORMERS 33 & POMELO

12/22/2025

This article was published in the Patterson Irrigator on December 11, 1925.

The Jaderquist family were early Pattersonites. They arrived around 1920 from Keyes when Andrew Jaderquist purchased the general mercantile store of the late J.M. Smith. After a few years he built the structure that became the Plaza Market; the new location opened in 1928, but the family ended up selling it to A. F. Gervasoni and Son in 1929 (they opened in 1933).

Eva graduated from Patterson Union High School in 1921. She later attended the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago and received a master's from the American Conservatory of Music, also in Chicago. The opportunity to sign with the Met came in late 1925, but she turned it down in favor of other opportunities.

By 1933 she was teaching music at Los Angeles Junior College, where she remained until her marriage to Rev. S. A. Sackerson in 1937. They lived in Chicago, where he had been a pastor for the past 15 years, but he died just three years later at age 50 due to heart disease.

She married Herbert Tovey in 1942, and they lived in Chico for many years, where she served as the director of music at the high school there. By 1946 they were both known nationally as music directors and composed, and they traveled extensively.

It's uncertain when they moved to the San Diego area, but he died there in March 1972 and she passed on in May 1990.

12/22/2025

A little dig into Patterson's early history based on an article I recently came across in the 1915 Irrigator ...

William Tinsley Stagg was Patterson's first postmaster. He was appointed on December 11, 1909 and served until October 13, 1910 when he was replaced by James G. Camp.

He was born in Indiana in December 1867 to Charles and Lucy (Tinsley) Stagg. His father was a Civil War veteran and worked as an attorney and notary public in Indianapolis; his mother had immigrated from Ireland at age 15, around 1851. After his father's death in 1885, the family moved to the Los Angeles area where his mother became one of the first principals of the USC music school (1887 to 1890) and served as dean from 1893 to 1895. William was listed as a law student in the 1890 Los Angeles city directory, and by 1896 was listed as a "minister of the gospel" in the voter register for San Pedro.

He married Annie Wells on February 2, 1894, in Singapore, but they were back in the United States by the time of their second son's birth in 1897. They were living in Orange, California as of the 1900 census, with no occupation listed. In the 1910 census the family was living in "Newman Township" where he was listed as the "general agent" for Patterson Land. By 1920 the family had moved back to the Los Angeles area, where he continued his work as an attorney.

William died in Los Angeles in April 1946.

12/01/2025

Published in the Patterson Irrigator on November 29, 1935

10/12/2025

Published in the Patterson Irrigator on October 7, 1965

This was part of a National Fire Prevention Week series of articles.

10/10/2025

We haven't had a mystery photo in a while.

What do you think this is?

Answer will be provided on Sunday night (October 12).

08/07/2025

https://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/barnstormers-find-new-home/article_7ea3926e-4d88-4f56-95df-a472cdd1265d.html

A New Chapter Begins for Local Agricultural Heritage

02/14/2025

https://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/wilda-faye-hill-november-1-1935-january-15-2025/article_61fd98a4-e9a6-11ef-8c5f-cb6bfc339d23.html

Wilda Faye (Cartwright) Hill, long-time Patterson resident, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed peacefully on January 15, 2025.