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Rh finishing his course in the seminary, was principal of a private classical school till 1882. He has since devoted himself entirely to authorship. His pub- lications in book-form include "' A Concise History of the American People " (3 vols., New York, i860-'82); "Yorktown, 1781-1881" (1881); "The Democratic Party, its History and Influence " (1884) ; " A Brief History of the Pi-esbyterian Church in the United States " and " The Natural Resources of the United States " (1888).

PATTON, James, Canadian lawyer, b. in Pres- cott. Upper Canada, 10 June, 1824. His father, Andrew Patton, a native of Scotland, was major of the 45th regiment. James was educated at Upper Canada and King's colleges, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1845, and in 1847 received the degree of LL. B. from Toronto univer- sity. He began practice in Barrie, and founded the Barrie " Herald " in 1852 and the " Upper Canada Law Journal " in 1855. In 1856 he was elected a member of the legislative council of Canada for Saugeen, and in that year, on the formation of the Toronto university association, he was elected its president. In 1857 he was appointed a member of its senate. He became vice-chancellor of To- ronto university in 1860, in 1861 chairman of the Toronto university commission. Queen's counsel in 1862, and in this year was appointed solicitor- general for Upper Canada. He has been collector of customs at Toronto since 1881.

PATTON, John Mercer, lawyer, b. in Vir- ginia in 1796 : d. in Richmond, Va., 29 Oct.. 1858. He received a classical education, and was gradu- ated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. He subsequently studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to prac- tise at Fredericksburg, Va. He was elected to congress to fill a vacancy, and four times re-elected, serving continuously from 6 Dec, 1830, till 1838, when he resigned. He then removed to Rich- mond, and resumed practice, taking high rank at the bar. He was elected and served until his death as judge of the court of appeals.

PATTON, Robert, patriot, b. in Westport, Ireland, in 1755 ; d. in New York city, 3 Jan., 1814. He was brought to this country when he was seven years of age, and resided in Philadelphia. In Octo- ber, 1776, he enlisted as a private in the Revolu- tionary army, was taken prisoner by the British, and confined for some time in New York city. After his liberation he rose to the rank of major and served under Lafayette. He was early a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. In 1789 he was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia, that office then being the most important in the country. He discharged the duties for nearly twenty years, when he re- signed and removed to New York city. lie was intimate with President Madison, and the latter ofEered him the postmaster-generalship, but Patton refused the appointment on the ground that he was unwilling to remove his family from a free to a slave community. One of his chief character- istics was his strict integrity. When he was made postmaster he refused to appoint any of his sons to a clerkship, and on his resignation he strictly en- joined them not to apply to be his successor, saying that the office had been long enough in his family, and should now go to another. When war was declared in 1812, and a government loan, which every one prophesied would prove a failure, was placed on the market, he went at an early hour on the first day and subscribed |60,000, asserting that, if his country should be ruined, his property would then be valueless. — His son, Robert Bridg'es, educator, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 25 Sept., 1794; d. in New York city, 6 May, 1839, was graduated at Yale in 1817, and received the degree of A.B. from Middlebury in 1818, and that of Ph. D. from the University of Gottingen, Germany, in 1821. He was professor of Greek and Latin at Middle- bury college until 1825, and then accepted the same chair at Princeton, but resigned in 1829, to become principal of the Edgehill seminary at Princeton, N. J. In 1834-'8 he was professor of Greek in the University of the city of New York, and he took high rank as a Greek scholar. He translated Thiersch's " Greek Verbs " from the German (New York, 1830), and revised and edited Donegan's Greek lexicon. — Another son, William, clergyman, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 23 Aug., 1798 ; d. in New Haven, Conn.. 9 Sept., 1879, was gradu- ated at Middlebury in 1818, and, after studying at Princeton theological seminary, was ordained. During twenty-six years of his life he was pastor of churches in New York city. From 1834 till 1837 he was secretary of the American educa- tion society. He spent the latter part of his life in New Haven, Conn., engaged in literary and ministerial work. He was the first to suggest the idea of the World's evangelical alliance, which he did in a letter to Rev. John Angell James, of Eng- land, in 1843. He attended the convention in London in August, 1846, that organized the alli- ance. He was a founder of the New York union theological seminary, and first proposed its estab- lishment. He made fourteen visits to Europe be- tween 1825 and 1879. He was an earnest opponent of slavery, and for forty years a member of the executive committee of the American home mis- sionary society. His views on the subject of tem- perance were equally radical. In the pulpit he was characterized not so much by breadth and accuracy of scholarship, finish of style, or elegance of delivery, as by his strong grasp upon his subject, his simplicity, directness, aptness, and freshness. He received the degree of D. D. from the Uni- versity of the city of New York. Besides editing President Jonathan Edwards's work on " Revi- vals" and Charles G. Finney's " Lectures on Re- vivals" (London, 1839), preparing the American editions of " The Cottage Bible." of which over 170,000 copies were sold, and " The Village Testament " (New York. 1833), and assisting in editing " The Christian Psalmist " (1836), he published " The Laws of Fermentation and the Wines of the Ancients " (1871) ; " The Judgment of Jerusalem Predicted in Scripture, Fulfilled in History " (Lon- don, 1879) ; " Jesus of Nazareth " (1878) ; and " Bible Principles and Bible Characters " (Hartford, 1879). — Robert's grandson, William Weston, clergyman, b. in New York city, 19 Oct., 1821 ; d. in Westfield, N. J., 31 Dec, 1889, was graduated in New York in 1839 and at the Union theological seminary in 1842. After taking charge of a Congregational church in Boston, Mass., for three years, he became pastor of one in Hartford, Conn., in 1846, and in Chicago, 111., in 1857. From 1867 till 1872 he was editor of "The Advance" in that city, and during 1874 he was lecturer on modern skepticism at Oberlin, Ohio, and Chicago theological seminaries, after which time he became president of Howard university, Washington, D. C, filling the chair of natural theology and evidences of Christianity in its theological department. He took an earnest part in the anti-slavery movement, and was chairman of the committee that presented to President Lincoln, 13 Sept., 1862, the memorial from Chicago asking him to issue a proclamation of emancipation. He was vice-president of the Northwestern sanitary commission during the civil