 His son, Samuel W. Fitzpatrick, served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, and subsequently inherited the farm.It remained in the FitzPatrick family, except for a hiatus between 1930 and 1942.The owner from 1942 to 1965, John Paul FitzPatrick, was "a leading pencil manufacturer with factories in Tennessee, New Jersey, and California."