Robert Patterson, Esq. and Eliza Acheson Baird

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Husband Robert Patterson, Esq. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 17 Oct 1821 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Rev. Robert Patterson (1773-1854) 1 2 4
         Mother: Jane Canon (      -1856) 1 2

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       Marriage: 27 Aug 1851 1 2

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Wife Eliza Acheson Baird ^{1 2 3 5}

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         Father: Hon. Thomas Harlan Baird (1787-1866) 6 7
         Mother: Nancy McCullough (      -Bef 1882) 3 8

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Children

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1 F Jane Patterson ^{1 2 9}

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2 F Elizabeth Patterson ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Bessie Patterson 9
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3 M Thomas Patterson, Esq. ^{1 9 10}

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           Born: 1856 2
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         Spouse: Harriet W. Wilson (      -      ) 11
           Marr: 2 Jun 1892 11

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Patterson, Esq.

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He graduated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in September, 1840; read law for three years in the office of Hon. Thomas H. Baird; was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County in October, 1843; practiced with Judge Baird until 1845; was engaged in teaching in different academies until August, 1850, when he was elected to the professorship of mathematics in Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, from which he was chosen to the same chair in Oakland College, Mississippi, in November, 1854; from this to the same chair in Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1858, which last position he left in 1864 to become associated with Rev. Dr. James Allison in conducting the Presbyterian Banner.

He held no public office, but saw some military service in Kentucky, but was rejected from military duty during the Civil war on account of being under weight and near-sighted. He was an ardent Republican and a life-long Presbyterian in religious faith.

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General Notes: Wife - Eliza Acheson Baird

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Sewickley, Allegheny Co, PA

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 315.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 372.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 153.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226, 245.

6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 542.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 152.

8 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 480, 542.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 154.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 371.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 373.