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1874-80, and the Democratic nominee for governor of Colorado in 1888. He purchased and edited the Rocky Mountain News at Denver, Col., 1890, and continued to practise law. As a member of the Democratic committee on resolutions in 1893 he brouglit in a minority report, being the only member to favor the free coinage of silver, which was adopted in 1896. He repudiated Cleveland's nomination in 1893 and led the movement which gave the electoral vote of Colorado to James B. Weaver. He was a presidential elector on the Bryan and Sewall ticket in 1896 and the Bryan and Stevenson ticket in 1900, and was elected to the U. S. senate as a Democrat in 1901, for the term ending March 3, 1907. His wife died July 16, 1903, in Denver, Col.

PATTI, Adelina, prima donna, was born in Madrid, Spain, Feb. 19, 1813; daughter of Sal- vatore and Catherine (Cheisa) Barilli Patti, both singers of repute. She came to the United States with her parents in early childhood, and studied music under her step-brother, Ettore Barilli, and her brother-in-law, Maurice Strakosch. She made her debut at a concert in New York city in 1850, then toured Great Britain with Strakosch and Ole Bull, singing the songs of Jenny Lind, re-appeared in New York city, and in 1854 accom- panied Gottschalk, the pianist, to the West Indies. She retired from the concert stage, 1855-58, and continued her musical education, besides studying the French, German, Italian and English lan- guages. She made her first appearance in Italian opera at the Academy of Music, New York city, Nov. 34, 1859, in " Lucia; " in London, May 14, 1861, in " La Sonnambula " and in Paris, Nov. 16, 1863. She subsequently visited Holland, Belgium Austria, Prussia and Russia. In St. Petersburg she received the Order of Merit and the title of " first singer of the Court" from the Emperor in 1870, and sang "Aida" in the Apollo tlieatre, Rome, 1874, She made a concert tour of the United States, 1881-83, and appeared in opera there in the seasons of 1883-83, 1884-85 and 1886- 87. She made a tour of South America, Mexico, and the United States, 1887-88. Her voice, a so- prano of exceptional range, was especially adapted to pathos and coquetry. She married, July 39, 1868, the IMarquis de Caux, from whom she was di- vorced in 1885; secondly, in 1886, Ernesto Nicolini, an Italian tenor, who died in 1898; and thirdly, Jan. 35, 1899, Baron Rolf Cederstrom of Sweden, and made her home at Craig y Nos Castle, Wales. She sang in the United States in 1903.

PATTISON, Granville Sharpe, educator, was born in Scotland in 1791. He was educated in Glasgow, and became a medical lecturer there. He emigrated to tl)e United States, and was pro- fessor of anatomy in Baltimore medical college. Afterward he held the same professorship in Lon-

don, England. Returning to the United States, he was a professor in Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, and in 1840 transferred his services to the University of the city of New York. He trans- lated and edited medical works and wrote pam- phlets. He died in New York city, Nov. 13, 1851.

PATTISON, Robert Emory, governor of Penn- sylvania, was born in Quantico, Somerset county, Md., Dec. 8, 1850; son of the Rev. Robert Henry and Catherine Priscilla (Woolford) Pattison; grandson of Judge Samuel and Ann (Skinner) Pattison and of Dr. Thomas and Margaret (Le Compte) Wool- ford, of Cambridge, Dorchester county, Md., and a descend- ant of James Pattison of James Island, Md., who arrived in Amer- ica, 1640, and of Roger Woolford who came to Virginia prior to 1663, and in that year settled in Somerset count}', Md., where he was justice of the county for five years

between 1676-94. Robert Emory Pattison was graduated at the Philadelphia High school, A.B., 1870; studied law with Lewis Cassidy, 1870-73, and was admitted to the bar in 1873. He was city comptroller, 1877-83, and at once began a reform movement which residted in his election as gov- ernor of Pennsylvania in 1883 by a plurality of 40,303 over his Republican opponent, Gen. James A. Beaver. At the end of his term in 1886, he re- sumed liis law practice in Philadelphia. In April, 1887, he was elected president of the Chestnut Street National bank and was a member and pres- ident of the U.S. Pacific railroad commission, 1887-90. He was re-elected governor of Pennsyl- vania in 1891 on the reform platform, his term expiring in 1895, and was again the Democratic nominee for governor in 1903. but was defeated.

PATTISON, Robert Everett, educator, was born in Benson, Vt., Aug. 19, 1800; son of the Rev. William and Sarah (Everett) Pattison; grandson of Capt. Robert and Elizabetli (Cochrane) Patti- son and of the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Warren) Everett. Capt. Robert Pattison and his wife were both Scotch, but living in the north of Ireland, whence they immigrated to America, and settled in Vermont. Their son, the Rev. William Pattison, was the first male child born in Halifax, Vt. Robert Everett Pattison graduated from Amherst A.B.. 1836. A.M., 1839; was tutor at Columbian college. Washington, D.C., 1836-37; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy