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Paterson, William – Patten, William

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, 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.