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of the late Josiah Collins, 1852-61 ; was chaplain in the C.S. army 1861-65 ; again assistant to the Rev. G. A. Watson in St. James parish, Wil- mington, N.C. ,1865-70 ; rector of St. John's, Wil- mington, 1870 ; finance agent of the University of the South, 1881-82 ; missionary in Texas, 1881- 86, and rector of Grace Church parish, Memphis, Tenn., 1886-1901. He served as dean of the con- vocation of Memphis, was a member of the standing committee of the diocese, deputy to the general convention, and an examining chaplain for Bishop Gailor at the time of his death. He received the lionorary degree of D.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1847, and from the University of the South in 1895. He con- tributed to The Diocese of Tennessee and other periodicals. He died in Memphis, Dec. 10, 1901.

PATTERSON, George Herbert, educator, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 26, 1836 ; son of the Rev. Albert Clarke and Juliet Content (Rath- bone) Patterson ; grandson of Enoch and Mary (Adams) Patterson, of Boston, Mass., and of Samuel and Mary (Turner) Rathbone, of Buffalo, N.Y., and a descendant of James Patterson, of Lyme Regis, England, who came to America in the Jane and Sarah, in 1653. Albert Clarke Patterson (1809-1874), Harvard A.B., 1830 ; A.M., 1833 ; graduate of Harvard Divinity school, 1833 ; honorary A.M., Hobart. 1857, was rector and missionary in western New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, 1857-74. George Herbert Patterson was graduated at Hobart, valedictorian, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861, and from Harvard, LL.B., 1863. He taught school : was admitted to the bar in 1864 ; returned to academic work, 1866 ; headmaster, St. Martin's school, Southborough, Mass., 1866-69 ; was admitted to the diaconate in 1870, ordained to the priesthood in 1877 ; was president of the DeVeaux college, N.Y., 1869-81, and rector of St. Mary's church. South Ports- mouth, R.I., 1887-1901. He was principal of Berkeley scliool. Providence, R.I., 1883-88, and was made a corresponding member of the New En-land Historic Genealogical society in 1883.

PATTERSON, James Kennedy, educator, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, March 26, 1833 ; son of Andrew and Janet (Kennedy) Patterson, and grandson of James and Ann (Laugwill) Pat- terson and of William and Helen (McFarland) Kennedy. He attended school in Alexandria, Scotland ; immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1842, and settled in Bartholo- mew coimty, Ind. He was graduated at Han- over college, Ind., A.B., 1856, A.M., 1859, and was principal of the Presbyterian academy at Greenville, Ky., 1856-59. He was married, Dec. 27, 1859, to Lucelia, daughter of Capt. Charles F. Wing of Greenville, Ky. He was professor of Latin and Greek in Stewart college, Clarksville^ VIII. — 15

Tenn., 1860-61; principal of the Transylvania high school, Lexington, Ky., 1861-65; became professor of history and metaphysics in Ken- tuck}^ university at Lexington, Ky., in 1865, and in 1869 was also elected president of the Agricul- tural and Mechanical college of the same univer- sity. When the legislature detached the Agri- cultural and Mechanical college from Kentucky university in 1878 he continued to be president of the former, which was given the name of State college. He was a delegate from Kentucky to the International Geographical congress at Paris, France, in 1875, and to the Britisli associa- tion at Bristol, 1875, and at Leeds, 1890. In 1889 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical society of Great Britain and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He was successful in his endeavor to maintain tiie constitutional act of levying a tax for the support of the State college, 1881-82, and bequeathed by will his library and all his estate to the State college to found and endow a library in memory of his son, William Andrew Patterson, who was born in 1868 and died in 1895. He received tlie degree of Ph.D. from Hanover college in 1875 and that of LL.D. from Lafayette college in 1896. He wrote editorials for the Courier- Journal of Lou- isville, Ky., 1871-74, and contributed to the Scottish- American.

PATTERSON, James Willis, senator, was born in Henniker, N.H.. July 2, 1823 ; son of William and Frances M. (Shepard) Patterson ; grandson of Joseph and Susannah (Duncan) Patterson, and a descendant of Alexander Patterson, who came fi"om the north of Ireland in 1721 and settled in Londonderry, N.H. He was graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1848, A.M., 1851 ; taught in Woodstock academy, Conn. ; read the elements of law, and on the advice of Beecher began to study theology at New Haven. He was a tutor at Dartmouth, 1852-54 ; professor of mathematics, 1854-59 ; professor of astronomy and meteorol- ogy, 1859-65, and Willard professor of oratory, 1893. He was school commissioner for Grafton county, N.H., and secretary of the state board of education, 1858-61 ; was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature, 1862 ; in the 38th and 39th congresses, 1863-67, and was U. S. sen- ator, 1867-73. With Garfield and Boutwellhe se- cured the passage through the house of the bill es- tablishing the department (afterward the bureau) of education. He was also the autlior of the bill authorizing consular clerkships and the bill for the establisiiment of colored schools in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and was chairman of the com- mittees on retrenchment and reform and the Dis- trict of Columbia. He was accused of complic- ity in the Credit Mobilier, and a resolution to expel him from the senate was considered Feb.