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674 tered out of service on the expiration of his com- mission, 27 July, 1861, and returned to private life. Gen. Patterson was a popular speaker, one of the largest mill-owners in the United States, and was interested in sugar-refineries and cotton-planta- tions. He was president of the board of trustees of Lafayette college at the time of his death. He published " Narrative of the Campaign in the Shenandoah " (Philadelphia. 1865). — His son, Francis Engle, soldier, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 24 June, 1827 ; d. in Fairfax Court-House, Va., 22 Nov., 1862, entered the array from civil life in 1847 as 2d lieutenant of artillery. He becarae captain in 1855, resigned in 1857, and devoted himself to commercial pursuits till the beginning of the civil war, when he took command of the 115th regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers. He became brigadier- general of volunteers. 11 April, 1862, and partici- pated in the peninsular campaign. He was killed by the accidental discharge of his own pistol.

PATTERSON, Robert, clergyman, b. in Let- terkenny, County Donegal. Ireland, in 1829. He was educated in his native town and in London- derry, emigrated to the United States, and after a course in the theological seminary of the Re- formed Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, Pa., was licensed to preach in 1851. He was ordained the next year, engaged in missionary work, and in 1854 became pastor of the 1st Reformed Presby- terian church of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was in charge of churches in Chicago, 111., from 1857 till 1873. and in San Francisco in 1874-'8, returned to Cincinnati in the latter year, and accepted a call from the Central Presbyterian church of that city, serving for two years. Since 1880 he has been pastor of the church in Brooklyn, Alameda co., Cai. He has received the degree of D. D. His pub- lications include " The Fables of Infidelity and the Facts of Faith " (Cincinnati, 1860) ; " The Ameri- can Sabbath " (Philadelphia, 1868) ; " The Sabbath, Scientific, American, and Christian " (1870) ; " Chris- tianity the only Republican Religion" (1871); " Christ's Testimony to the Scriptures " (1872) ; and " Egypt's Place in History " (1875). PATTERSON, Robert Mayne, clergyman, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 17 July, 1832. He was gradu- ated at the Philadelphia high-school in 1849, was a reporter ift the United States senate for five years, and subsequently studied law, and then divinity, in which he was graduated at the Princeton theo- logical seminary in 1859. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Cherry Valley, Pa., from that date till 1867. and for the subsequent thirteen years of the South church, Philadelphia. Since 1880 he has edited the " Presbyterian Journal," and in 1883 he resumed the pastorate of the Cherry Valley church. He was a member of the commit- tee of five to revise and publish the new " Digest of the Acts of the Assembly," in 1871, and was one of the council that met in London in 1875 to form the alliance of the Presbyterian churches of the world. He was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian councils in 1880 and 1884, read a paper on " Church Ex- tension " before the formec body, and edited the reports of its proceedings. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1884. Dr. Patterson has published several short histories of the Presbyterian church in the United States, and " History of Pres- byterianism in Philadelphia " (Philadelphia, 1872) ; •'Paradise, or the State and Place of Saved Souls between Death and the Resurrection " (1874) ; " His- torical Sketch of the Synod of Philadelphia" (1876) ; '• Visions of Heaven for the Life on Earth " (1877); "Elijah the Favored Man" (1880); and "History of the Synod of Pennsylvania " (1885).

PATTERSON, Thomas H., naval officer, b. in New Orleans, La., in Mav, 1820 ; d. in Chicago, 111.. 10 April. 1890. He entei'ed the U. S. navy in 1836 as midshipman, became lieutenant in 1849, and commanded the steamship "Chocura" in Hamp- ton roads. He was present at the siege of York- town, made a reeonnoissance to West Point, Va., and opened the way up the Pamunkey river in sup- port of Gen. George B. McClellan's army. He co- operated with Gen. George Stoneman's advance, at the White House, in checking the approach of the enemy at that point, and from June till October was senior officer of the naval forces in York and Pamunkey rivers, being in constant co-operation with the Army of the Potomac. He was commis- sioned commander in July, 1862, was in charge of the steamer "James Adger " till 1865, on blockade duty off Wilmington, N. C, and cut out the steamer " Kate " from under the Confederate bat- teries at New Inlet in July, 1863. He participated in the capture of a flying battery above Fort Fisher in August, 1863, captured the " Cornubia" and the " Robert E. Lee," both filled with arms and stores for the Confederate army, and the schooner " Ella." He became senior officer of the outside blockade off Charleston, S. C, in September, 1864, He was commissioned captain in 1866. commodore in 1871, commanded the navy-yard at Washington, D. C, was president of the naval board of examin- ers in 1876-'7, and in the latter year became rear- admiral. He was retired in 1883.

PATTI, Carlotta, singer, b. in Florence, Italv^ in 1840 ; d. in Paris. France, 28 June, 1889. She was the daughter of Salvatore Patti. a Sicilian tenor, who made his first appearance in this coun- try, 4 Oct., 1848, in Philadelphia, and died in Paris,^ 30" Aug., 1859. Her mother, whose stage name,. Signora Barilli, was that of her first husband, was a native of Rome and a singer of some repute. Carlotta was educated as a pianist under Henri Herz, but soon gave up the piano in order to cultivate her voice. She made her first public appearance in New York city in 1861 at a concert, and the following year sang in opera. A slight lame- ness interfering with her success on the lyric stage» and the civil war disarranging her plans, she went abroad, and first sang in England, 16 April, 1863. After giving more than fifty concerts in London, she was invited to appear before the queen. " Never in my life," said the latter, after hearing her, " has any singer so charmed and pleased me." During the next six years she gave hundreds of concerts in all parts of the continent with unvarying success. Her voice was one of the highest sopranos known, stretching from C below the clef to G sharp in alt, considerably over two octaves. She returned to New York in 1869, and afterward appeared frequently on both sides of the Atlantic. Although confining herself almost entirely to the concert stage, she occasionally appeared in opera, singing, among other roles, that of the Queen of Night in Mozart's " Magic Flute," the music of which is the despair of ordinary singers. On 3 Sept.. 1879, she married Ernst de Munck, of Weimar. — Her brother. Carlo, violinist, b. in Madrid, Spain, in 1842; d. in Cincinnati, 0., 17 March, 1873, was taken to the United States with his sisters in 1843, and as a child was taught the violin. In 1862 he became the leader of the orchestra at the New Orleans opera-house, and was afterward similarly employed in New York, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. — Her sister, Adelina (Adelea JuaSa Maria Clorinda), singer, b. in Madrid, Spain, 19 Feb., 1843. early showing signs of great musical abilitv, was taug-ht the rudiments of her art