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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.