Rev. Robert Patterson and Jane Canon

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Husband Rev. Robert Patterson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1 Apr 1773 - Saratoga Co, NY 2 3
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           Died: 5 Sep 1854 - near Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: Rev. Joseph Patterson (1752-1832) 2 3
         Mother: Jane Moak (      -      ) 2 3

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       Marriage: 27 Aug 1801 2 3

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Wife Jane Canon ^{2 3}

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            AKA: Jean Canon 1
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           Died: 1856 2
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         Father: Col. John Canon (      -1799) 1 4
         Mother: Jeannette [Unk] (      -Aft 1799) 1

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Children

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1 M Robert Patterson, Esq. ^{2 3 5}

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           Born: 17 Oct 1821 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: 30 Nov 1889 3
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         Spouse: Eliza Acheson Baird (      -Aft 1893) 2 3 5 6
           Marr: 27 Aug 1851 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Robert Patterson

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He was born in Saratoga County, New York, not far from where the battles of Stillwater were fought four years later. He entered the Canonsburg Academy at its commencement in 1790, reciting the first lesson under the shade of some trees, no building having yet been obtained. In 1794 he entered the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, where his uncle, Robert Patterson, was the professor of mathematics. He graduated there in 1796, and remained as a tutor four years longer, at the same time studying theology. He was licensed in 1801.
Mr. Patterson was pastor of two churches near Erie, Pennsylvania, for six years; in 1807 he removed to Pittsburgh, and took charge of the Pittsburgh Academy (later, the Western University of Pennsylvania) until 1810. From that date until 1836 he was engaged in book-selling, and part of the time in publishing and in the manufacture of paper. He also supplied the pulpit of Hiland Church, seven miles north of Pittsburgh, from 1807 to 1833. In 1840 he removed to the country, about three miles south of Pittsburgh, where he died.
It was in Mr. Patterson's printery that the "Manuscript Found" was left by Solomon Spalding, which was supposed, through the mediumship of Sydney Rigdon, to have furnished the basis of the "Book of Mormon."

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

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

3 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.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 156.

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

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