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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.