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 PATTISON

PATTON

at Waterville college, Maine (which institution became Colby university, Jan. 23, 1867), 1827-29; pastor at Salem, Mass., and Providence, R.I., 1829-36; president and professor of intellectual and moral philosophy, Waterville college, 1836- 39; piustor at St. Louis, Mo. , 1840-41, and at Provi- dence, R.I., 1841-42; secretary of the Bai)tist Mis- sionary Union, 1842-45; president of the Western Baptist Theological institute, Covington, Ky., 1S4.J-48; professor of Christian Theology at the Newton Theological institution, 1848-54; again president of Waterville college, 1854-57; proprie- tor of Oread institute, Worcester, Mass., 1859-64; professor of systematic theology and history of doctrines at Shurtleff college, 1865-69, and pro- fessor of theology at the Union Baptist Theolog- ical seminary, Chicago, 111., 1870-74. Brown uni- versity conferred on him the honorary degrees A.M., 1832, and D.D., 1838. He is the author of " Commentary on the Ejnsfle to the Ephesians" (1859) . He died at the home of his eldest son, Ever- ett Wilson Pattison, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 21, 1874. PATTISON, Thomas, naval officer, was born in Troy. N.Y., Feb. 8, 1822. He was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. navy, March 2, 1839, and served on the St. Louis of the Pacific squadron, 1839-42. He attended the naval school at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1845, was promoted passed midshipman July 2, 1845, and served on the steamers Scorpion and Princeton, the frigates Raritnn and Columbia, the ordnance ship Electra and the gunboat Referee, of the home squadron, during the Mexican war. He served with the coast survey, 1850-51; was promoted lieutenant, Sept. 12, 1854, and served on the Portsmouth of the Pacific squadron, 1852-55. He was the first American naval officer to enter Tokyo, Japan. He was stationed at the Boston navy yard in 1857, and was an officer on the Mississijijn of the East India squadron, 1857-60. He was commissioned lieutenant-connnander in 1861, and served as executive officer of the sloop Perry. During a nigiit engagement off Charles- ton, S.C, June 4, 1861, he assisted in the capture of the Savannah, the first Confederate privateer takenin the war. He commanded the Philadel- phia of the Potomac flotilla in October, 1861, and engaged the Confederate batteries on the Potomac river and Aquia creek. He was transferred to the Sumter of the South Atlantic squadron, in 1862, and to the Sarah Dolson of the Missi.ssippi squadron, in 1863. He was in charge of the naval station at Mem- phis, Tenn., 1863-65; was promoted commander, March 3, 1865, and was in charge of the Muncota, of the Atlantic squadron, 1865-67. He was on duty at the Norfolk navy yard, 1867-69; was promoted captain in June, 1870. and commanded the Richmond in the We.st Indies, 1871-72; the

Saranac and the receiving ship Independence, 1872-78. He was promoted commodore, Dec. 11, 1877, and commanded the naval station at Port Royal, S.C, 1878-80. He was transferred to the navy yard at Washington, D.C., in 1880, and served until July, 1883, when lie was detached. He was commissioned roar-admiral, in November, 1883, and was retired Feb. 8, 1884. He died at New Brighton, N.Y., Dec. 19, 1891.

PATTON, Francis Landey, educator, was born in Warwick parish, Bermuda, Jan. 22, 1843. He attended W^arwick academy, the University of Toronto, Knox college, Toronto, and was graduated from the Princeton Theolo- gical seminary in 1865. He was mar- ried, Oct. 10, 1865, to Rosa Antoinette, daughter of the Rev. John M. Stevenson, of New York city. He was ordained by the presbytery of New York, June 1, 1865; was pastor of the Eighty-fourth Street church. New York city, 1865-67; the Presbyterian

chui'ch, Nyack, N.Y., 1867-70; the South church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1871; Cyrus H. Mc- Cormick professor at Northwest (now McCoi- mick) seminary, Chicago, 1872-81; pastor of Jefferson Park church, Chicago, 111,, 1874-81, and moderator of the general assembly, 1878. He was Stuart profes.sor of the relations of philosophy and science to the Christian religion (endowed for him by Robert L. Stuart) at Princeton Tiieological seminary, 1880-88. He was made professor of ethics at the College of New Jersey in 1886. and in 1888 succeeded James McCosh to the presidency of the College of New Jersey which in 1896 became Princeton university. During his presidency he doubled the number of students, of buildings, of members of the faculty, and the endowment of the university. He resigned the presidency of Princeton university in June, 1902, and on Oct. 14, 1902, was elected president of Princeton Theological seminary. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Hanover college in 1872, and by Yale in 1888, and that of LL.D. by W^ooster university in 1878, by Harvard in 1889, by the University of Toronto in 1894, by Yale in 1901, and by Johns Hopkins in 1902. He edited the Chicago Interior (1873-76), and is the author of: Inspiration of the Scriptures (1859); Summary of Christian Doc- trine (1874), and numerous articles and reviews.