Frank Plunket Patterson and Bertha Elizabeth Mooney

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Husband Frank Plunket Patterson ¹

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           Born: 17 Sep 1876 - South Side, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Williams Patterson (1847-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Margaret Campbell (      -      ) 2 3

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       Marriage: 7 Jun 1900 3

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Wife Bertha Elizabeth Mooney ^{2 3}

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         Father: Edward G. Mooney (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Sarah C. McCormack (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Mary Elizabeth Patterson ^{2 3}

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           Born: 17 May 1903 3
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2 F Helen Louise Patterson ^{2 3}

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           Born: 28 Sep 1904 3
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3 F Sarah Virginia Patterson ^{2 3}

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           Born: 28 Dec 1907 3
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4 M Frank P. Patterson, Jr. ³

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           Born: 6 Sep 1909 3
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5 F Martha Allen Patterson ³

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           Born: 6 Dec 1911 3
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6 M William Robert Patterson ³

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           Born: 28 Sep 1913 3
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General Notes: Husband - Frank Plunket Patterson

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He was educated in the Morse and St. Clair public schools and St. John's Parochial School. In 1891 the family moved to the East End of Pittsburgh, and he attended the high school class in the Liberty School. In 1892 he entered the Pittsburgh High School and was graduated in 1896. He then took up journalism, securing a position with the Pittsburgh "Post," remaining in that connection for two years. He was then offered and accepted a position as dramatic critic and editor with the Pittsburgh "Times," and remained in this position for eighteen months, when he accepted a position offered him by Eugene O'Neil, principal owner of the Pittsburgh "Dispatch," as dramatic editor of that journal. He held this position after the "Dispatch" passed under the ownership of Colonel C. A. Rook. After spending several years in journalistic work, Mr. Patterson decided to make a change in his profession and took up the study of law with A. M. Neeper, Esq., and finally, in 1906, left his employment with the Pittsburgh "Dispatch" and in January of 1907 passed the required examinations and was admitted to the Allegheny County bar. From that time he devoted himself to a large and growing general practice and won a substantial success. He served as counsel for the Continental Trust Company of Pittsburgh.
During the World War, Mr. Patterson was with the Naturalization Department of the United States Government as a special examiner at cantonments, directing the naturalization of soldiers under the special act of Congress. He served as a "four-minute" man in Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. He was a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association; the Pennsylvania State Bar Association; the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce; the Pittsburgh Press Club; the Pittsburgh Athletic Association; the Knights of Columbus; the Knights of Equity, Lodge No. 11; the Pittsburgh Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; of the Ancient Order of Hibernians; and in religion was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Mr. Patterson was the author of a new Jury Reform Bill, No. 1144, passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature and signed by Governor Pinchot on Thursday, May 15, 1925. His work as an attorney was in real estate and in the Orphans' Court, where he was connected with several very important cases, one of which may be particularly mentioned. That was his defeat of the actress, Laura Bigger, in her attacks upon the estate of Henry M. Bennett and Peter McNulty.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 119.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 367.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 120.