Husband Hon. John James Patterson 1
Born: 8 Aug 1830 - Waterloo, Juniata Co, PA 2
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Father: William Hart Patterson (1799-1858) 1 3
Mother: Mary Ann Wilson ( - ) 1 3
Marriage: 1855 2
Other Spouse: Mildred May Frank ( -1889) 2 - 1887 2
Other Spouse: Flora Marcie Warfood ( - ) 2 - Feb 1893 2
Wife Lucretia E. Moore 2
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Died: 1884 - Washington, D. C. 2
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1 M William H. Patterson 2
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2 M Silas M. Patterson 2
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3 F Mary W. Patterson 2
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4 M John J. Patterson, Jr. 2 4
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Spouse: Nellie Olivia North ( - ) 4
General Notes: Husband - Hon. John James Patterson
He represented his district in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and in 1872 was elected to the Senate from South Carolina, in which state he had been living for several years. In former years he was much interested in newspaper work and later was identified with many of the leading railroad enterprises of his locality.
He received his elementary schooling in the common schools of his native place, and later attended the Tuscarora Academy in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Jefferson College, where he was a student at the same time that James G. Blaine was at Washington College. After leaving school he became the editor of the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph, this being in 1853, and this journal he conducted for ten years, on the expiration of which time he went to Mifflintown, where he afterwards organized the Juniata Valley Bank. In 1869 he went to South Carolina on business and continued to make his home there for about ten years, during which time he was elected to the United States Senate as a Representative from South Carolina, being a member of the Congressional body at the same time as was the noted statesman from Maine, James G. Blaine, from 1873 to 1879.
During the Civil War, Mr. Patterson enlisted at the beginning for three months' service, responding to the first call for troops, and was placed on General Williams' staff as aide-de-camp and was appointed Captain of the fifteenth Pennsylvania Infantry some time later. In 1862 he was made Paymaster, and at the end of one year's service was obliged to resign on account of sciatica, receiving an honorable discharge. For a number of years subsequently he was interested in the horse-cars and electric railroads being constructed at Bloomington, Illinois, and in Wilkes Barre and Lancaster. In 1893 he came to this city, and was President of the Pennsylvania Traction Company, which owned all the street railway property of Lancaster County.
In his political faith Mr. Patterson was a Republican of the truest stamp, and was always extremely active in everything pertaining to the success of the party with which he was identified. Both while he was in the United States Senate and at all other times his voice was heard on the side of a protective tariff and in support of the broad platform of the Republican party. Socially he was a Mason.