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.