HISTORY of PATTERSON family
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Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography; illustrated, Vol. 2
By John Woolf Jordan, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Ernest Spofford, Frederic Antes Godcharies
Pg. 467
PATTERSON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Glass Manufacturer
There were two branches of the PATTERSON family, of Scotch-Irish descent, who settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, during colonial times.JAMES PATTERSON, the founder of one branch of the Lancaster County family, was born in the North of Ireland in 1708.He emigrated to America in 1728 and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where presumably he married MARY MONTGOMERY, and had several children.He died in Little Britain Township in 1792, and descendants of that branch of the PATTERSON family are quite numerous.
ARTHUR PATTERSON, the first American ancestor and founder of another branch of the PATTERSON family, emigrated from the North or Ireland in 1824, and he with his wife, who was ANN SCOTT, settled the same year in Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, then a wilderness.He was a farmer and blacksmith, acquired a large tract of land in Lancaster County, and became a man of influence and distinction in the community where he lived.His sons were patriots in the Revolutionary army, and his descendants have furnished several men of distinction in the history of Pennsylvania.
Descendants of these two families lived in the same communities and have a more or less common history, and are presumably the ancestors of JAMES PATTERSON, born in Philadelphia, who died there in 1883, aged 65 years.He was a leather merchant in Philadelphia, and well known in his time; he married SARAH FUNK, daughter of PETER FUNK, of German ancestry, and had children, among others a son, named:
ALEXANDER HAMILTON PATTERSON, born June 28, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and after leaving school served an apprenticeship under Roger Fisher & Brother in Philadelphia, where he learned typesetting and the printing trade.However, this work was interrupted by enlistment in the Second Volunteer Regiment of Pennsylvania, organized in 1863, and was known as the “Blue Reserves,” which was soon followed by a one-hundred days’ campaign in Company B, 197th Infantry, as drummer boy, under Colonel J. R. Hazlett.In 1864 he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked at his trade, and in 1865 went to Philadelphia, where he entered the employ of Cornelius and Baker as travelling salesman, and continued till that firm retired from business in 1878.In the last mentioned year he came to New York City and entered the employ of Mitchell Vance & Company, where he remained for some two years, and in 1881 he organized the firm of PATTERSON & Company, of New York, in which he also continued for about two years.He then became interested in the Phoenix Glass Company of Pittsburgh, and has continued with that firm to the present time, 1913, he being now first vice-president of the company.He is a Republican in politics; a member of the the blue lodge of Free and Accepted Masons; also of the following social organizations: (pg. 468) The Hardware Club of New York, the Union League, the Crescent Athletic and the Aurora Grata Masonic clubs, of Brookly, New York; and of the Pennsylvania Society of New York City.
He married CATHERINE C. KERNS, daughter of JOSEPH and ELLEN KERNS, May 12, 1880, in Philadelphia; she was born in Philadelphia, April 2, 1856.There has been no issue.
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