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degree from Yale in 1779. His house was burned soon after his deatli, destroying all his papers, memoranda and portraits. A tablet to his memory was erected in Trinity church, Lenox, Mass., in 18S7, and a granite monument was erected in the town by liis great-graiulson, Thomas Egleston (q.v.) in 1892, and Dr. Egleston also wrote his memoir in 181)9. Gen. John Pat- erson died suddenly at "Whitney's Point, Lisle, X.Y.. July 19. 1808.

PATERSON, William, associate justice, was born in the north of Ireland in 1745; eldest son of Ricliard Paterson, who with his wife and son came to Philadelphia in 1747; settled first in Trenton, in Princeton in 1750, and in 1779 in Rar- itan, where he died in 1781. "William Paterson prepared for college at the grammar school and was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1763. A.M., 1766. He read law with Richard Stockton, afterward the signer, and was admitted to the bar in 1769. He was a deputy to the New Jersey Provincial congress that met May 11, 1775, and was secretary of that body. He was an officer of the Somerset battalion of minute men in 1776, and in June of that year was appointed, with John Witherspoon, William Livingston and John Mehelm, the committee to arrest and depose the t.'vj^ia^g;^. royal gov- ernor. He was the first attor- ney-gener- al of New r Jersey, 17- - 76: a mem- e ber of the legislative council. 17-

76; a delegate to the Continental congress, 1780- 81, and to the constitutional convention of 1787. He was elected U.S. senator on the organiza- tion of the first state legislature in 1789, and drew the long term. He served in the senate as one of the tellers to count the electoral vote, was chairman of the committee on election certificates and a member of the judiciary com- mittee. He resigned his seat in the senate in 1790, having been elected by the legislature gov- ernor of New Jersej', as successor to Governor Livingston, the first governor of the state. His term of service expired. Jan. 1. 1793, and he was appointed by President "Washington associate ju-stice of the United States supreme court, tak- ing his place on the bench in 1793 and serving up to the time of his death. He presided over several of the "Whiskey Insurrection trials, and over tiie trial of Ogden and Smith for aiding Miranda in his South American expedition. He was married in 1779 to Cornelia Bell of Perth Am-

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boy. N.J., who died, Nov. 15, 1785. leaving two children, "William Bell and Cornelia, and he mar- ried secondl}' in 1785, Euphemia, daughter of Col. Anthony White of New Brunswick. N.J. She died Jan. 29, 1822, cliildless. He declined the appointment of secretary of state in President Washington's cabinet, as successor to Thomas Jefferson, and also that of attorney-general. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of the State of New York in 1792, from Dartmouth and the College of New Jersey in 1805, and from Harvard in 1806. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of Lairs of yetc Jersey (1798-99). On his way to the springs in Saratoga county, N.Y., for the benefit of his health, he died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer, in Albany. N.Y.. Sept. 9. 1806.

PATRICK, George Thomas White, educator, was born in North Boscawen, N.H.. Aug. 19, 1857; son of John and Harriet (White) Patrick; grandson of William and Mary (Gerrish) Patrick, and of Thomas and Mary (May) White, and a descendant of Matthew Patrick, of Scotch-Irish stock, who settled in Western (Warren), Mass., about 1731. and of William White, who came from Norfolk county, England, to Massachusetts in 1610. He was graduated from the State Uni- versity of Iowa, A.B., 1878, and from Yale uni- versity, B.D., 1885, took a post-graduate course in philosophy and psychology at Johns Hopkins. 1885-87, and received from there the degree of Ph.D. in 1888, having been twice appointed to a fellowship in philosophy in that institution. In 1887 he became professor of philosophy in the State University of Iowa; in 1902 was the editor of the university's Studies in Psychology, and be- came the head of its department of philosophy and psychology. He was married. Nov. 28. 1889, to Maud, daughter of William and Jeannette (Buck) Lyall. He was a student at Leipzig uni- versity, 1894. He is the author of: The Frag- ments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus (1889), and many contributions to scientific periodicals, notably the Popiilar Science Monthly.

PATRICK, Marsena Rudolph, soldier, was born in Houndsfield, N.Y.. March 15, 1811. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1835, and was promoted brevet 2d lieutenant, 2d infantry, U.S.A., July 1, 1835. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, Oct. 31, 1836; took part in the Florida war, 1837^2; was promoted 1st lieutenant. March 1, 1839; engaged in the war with Mexico, 1846-48; served as chief of commis.sariat of Gen- eral Wool's column in northern Mexico, 1846-47, and was promoted captain in the 22d infantry, Aug, 22, 1847, He was stationed at Vera Cruz. Mexico, 1^47—48, and was brevetted major. May 30, 1848, for meritorious conduct while serving in