Paterson, Donald – Patterson, James Kennedy
Paterson, Donald
educator, physician, lawyer, was born Jan. 4, 1837, in Bennettsville, S. C. He graduated in both law and medicine from the state university of Georgia. He has been a professor of mathematics in several institutions; a justice of the peace for many years, and a leading attorney and practicing physician and druggist of Concord, Fla.
Paterson, John
soldier, was born in 1744 in New Britain, Conn. He was a member of the first provincial congress which met at Salem in 1744; and also of the congress of 1775. In 1777 he was made a brigadier-general; and in 1783 became major-general. In 1792 he was a member of the New York assembly; of the constitutional convention of 1801; and a member of congress in 1803-05. He died July 19, 1808, in Whitney's Point, N. Y.
Paterson, John
mathematician, author, was born Jan. 11, 1801, in Paterson, N. J. He published a work on the Calculus of Operations, to which was added a supplemental volume; and papers on Weights and Measures. He died July 31, 1883, in Albany, N. Y.
Paterson, Stephen Van Rens- Selaer
poet, was born in 1817 in New Jersey. He was a poet of New Jersey, whose version of The Moss Rose from the German of Krummacher is his best-known poem. He was the author of Poems of Twin Graduates of the College of New Jersey. He died in 1872.
Paterson, William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born in 1745 at sea. He was a member of the convention which framed the first constitution of New Jersey in 1776; and from that time until the year 1786 was attorney-general of the state.
He was a member of the convention which framed the federal constitution, which instrument he signed. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1780 and 1781; and was one of the first senators in congress from 1789 to 1790, when he resigned. He was governor of New Jersey from 1791 to 1794, when he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of the United States, which position he held until his death. In 1798 and 1799 he revised, by authority of the legislature, the laws of New Jersey, a work highly esteemed, and the foundation of the jurisprudence of the state. He died Sept. 9, 1806, in Albany, N. Y.
Paterson, William
lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born in 1817 in New Jersey. He is a jurist of Perth Amboy, N. J.; and the co-author with his brother Stephen of Poems of Twin Graduates of the College of New Jersey.
Patillo, Henry
clergyman, author, was born in 1726 in Scotland. He was active in pre-revolutionary movements, a member of the North Carolina provincial congress in 1775, and was chaplain to that body, and chairman of the committee of the whole. He died in 1801 in Dinwiddie county, Va.
Patrick, James Rheece
lawyer, was born March 4, 1855, in Armstrong county, Pa. In 1882 he was admitted to the bar at Springfield, Ill.; and subsequently served as city attorney of Paxton, Ill. In 1884 he moved to Nebraska, and now has a large practice in Holdrege, where he takes an important part in public affairs.
Patrick, Marsena R
soldier, was born March 15, 1811, in Houndsfield, N. Y.
At the beginning of the civil war he was made inspector-general of the New York militia, and became brigadier-general of volunteers in March, 1862. He died July 27, 1888, in Dayton, Ohio.
Pattee, Fred Lewis
educator, author, was born March 22, 1863, in Bristol, N. H. He now fills the chair of English and rhetoric in the Pennsylvania state college. He is the author of A History of American Literature; and a volume of poems entitled The Wine of May.
Patten, Claudius Buchanan
banker, author, was born in 1835. He was a banker of Boston who published in 1885 England as Seen by an American Banker. He died in 1886.
Patten, Ellen
educator, poet, was born May 9, 1834, in Hiram, Ohio. After receiving a liberal education she attained success in educational work. She has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and her poems have been included in several standard works.
Patten, George Washington
soldier, author, poet, was born Dec. 26, 1808, in Newport, R. I. He was an officer in the United States army who wrote the noted lyrics, The Seminole's Reply; and Joys That We've Tasted. His published books include, Army Manual; Infantry Tactics; Cavalry Drill and Voices of the Border, a volume of verse. He died in 1882.
Patten, James Edwin
journalist, was born Sept. 2, 1865, in Cherry Valley, Ill.
He received a liberal education; and published the first school paper in the state of South Dakota at Madison in 1885.
In 1887 he founded The Salem Special of Salem, S. D., and has since been its editor and proprietor. In 1894-95 he served as president of the South Dakota Press association.
Patten, Jarvis
sea captain, author, was born in 1828 in Bowdoinham, Maine.
He was several times member of the city council of Bath, Maine; compiled and published a work on the Seaports of the World, a valuable book of reference.
Patten, John
soldier, congressman, was born in 1746 in Kent county, Del. He was commissioned major in 1779, and fought in almost every battle from Long Island to Camden, at which he was taken prisoner. He served in the continental congress in 1785-86, and in the third congress in 1793-94, but his seat was successfully contested in the latter year. He died June 17, 1801, in Dover, Del.
Patten, John D
congressman. He was elected from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat and greenbacker.
Patten, Simon Nelson
educator, author, was born in 1852 in Illinois. He is a professor of political economy in the university of Pennsylvania from 1888; and the author of The Stability of Prices; The Consumption of Wealth; Economic Basis of Protection; Principles of Rational Taxation; Educational Value of Political Economy; Theory of Dynamic Economics; The Premises of Political Economy; and The Theory of Social Forces.
Patten, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1763 in Halifax, Mass. He was pastor of the Second Congregational church at Newport, R. I., from 1786 till 1833. He published several separate sermons; Christianity the True Religion, a reply to Thomas Paine; Memoir of Mrs. Ruth Patten, his mother, and the daughter of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock; and Reminiscences of Rev. Samuel Hopkins. He died March 9, 1839, in Hartford, Conn.
Pattengill, Henry R
educator, journalist, author, was born Jan. 4, 1852, in Mount Vision, N. Y. He was professor of literature in the Michigan Agricultural college during 1886-89; and during 1892- 97 was superintendent of public instruction in Michigan. He is the editor and publisher of the Michigan School Moderator, and Timely Topics, of Lansing; and is the author of several text-books and educational manuals.
Patterson, Alexander A
railroad president, was born Dec. 18, 1852, in Saratoga, N. Y. In 1889 he became president of the St. Joseph Valley railway.
Patterson, Carlile Pollock
naval officer, civil engineer, was born Aug. 24, 1816, in Shieldsborough, Miss. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States navy in 1830; and subsequently attained the rank of lieutenant. For many years he was hydrographic inspector and a member of the lighthouse board. He died Aug. 15, 1881, near Washington, D. C.
Patterson, Christopher Stuart
lawyer, educator, author, was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia, and professor of the law of real estate in the university of Pennsylvania from 1887. He is the author of Memoir of Theodore Cuyler; Railway Accident Law; Federal Restraints on State Action; and The United States and the State under the Constitution.
Patterson, Daniel Tod
naval officer, was born March 6, 1786, on Long Island, N. Y. In 1828 he was made naval commissioner, and in 1832-36 he commanded the Mediterranean squadron, after which he was, until his death, commandant of the navy-yard at Washington. He died Aug. 15, 1839, in Washington, D. C.
Patterson, David Trotter
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1819, in Greene county, Tenn. He was elected a judge of the circuit court in 1854; and re-elected in 1862. In 1865 he was elected a senator in congress from Tennessee for the term ending in 1869, taking his seat on the last day of the first session of the thirty-third congress. He was son-in-law of President Andrew Johnson.
Patterson, Francis Engle
soldier, was born June 24, 1827, in Philadelphia. He became brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and participated in the peninsular campaign. He died Nov. 22, 1862, in Fairfax Court-House, Va.
Patterson, George Washing- Ton
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1799, in Londonderry, N. H. He was a member of the New York state assembly for eight years from 1832 to 1840, the last two of which he was speaker. He was basin commissioner at Albany; and harbor commissioner and quarantine commissioner at New York. He was elected lieutenantgovernor of the state in 1848. He was for several years supervisor of Westfield; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Patterson, James Kennedy
educator, college president, was born March 26, 1833, in Glasgow, Scotland. He entered the Hanover college, Indiana, in 1851, and in course received the degrees of B. A., A. M. and Ph. D. He has attained success in educational work; for three years was principal of the Greenville Presbyterian academy, Ky.; was professor of languages, history and metaphysics in various institutions; and since 1869 has been president of the States college of Kentucky, which has been built up mainly by his efforts. He has been a delegate from Kentucky to the international congress of geographical sciences at Paris in 1875; and a delegate to the British association for the Advancement of Science at Leeds in 1890; and is a member of numerous scientific bodies.