elicited the confidence of all who knew him. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867, p. 449. (J. L. S.)
Patterson, James H., M.D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Peru, N. Y., March 16, 1810. His earlier days were spent in Cana- da and Vermont. He was converted in 1826, licensed to preach in 1829, and received on probation into the New Hampshire Conference shortly after. He was admitted to full Conference connection in 1836. His appointments in the ministrj* were as follows : South New Market, Peterborough, Francistown, and Green- land, in New Hampshire ; Peacham, White River, Cor- inth, and Linden, in Vermont. While at Linden the Conference was divided, and he became member of the Vermont. His next appointments were to Northfield and Woodstock. During his pastorate at the latter place he studied medicine, and took his degree. His voice failing him in 1848, he practiced medicine until recovered strength permitted his resumption of the pas- toral work. He now joined the Vermont Conference, and was in 1851 appointed to Glen's Falls, N. Y. His next appointment was Castleton, Vt., and then he went to Cambridge, N. Y. In 1857 he located at Schenectady to supervise the collegiate education of his sons. In the spring of 1857 he was appointed, as effective, to the City Mission in Albany ; in 1858 and 1859, to Am- sterdam ; in 1860, to Schaghticoke ; but in 1861 he was superannuated, and he continued in this relation until his death, Dec. 24, 1873, at Glen's Falls, N. Y., where he had settled in 1863. Dr. Patterson was a man of more than usual ability. Had his early train- ing been collegiate, it is likcl}' that he would have risen to great prominence in any profession. He was much respected as a man, and his Christian virtues are praised b}" all who were brought into fellowship with him. See Minutes of Conferences, 1874, p. 64, 65. (J. H. W.)
Patterson, John Bro^wn, an English divine, celebrated as a student of antiquities, especially those of Greece, was born at Alnwick, Northumberland, Jan. 29, 1804, of pious parentage. From his earliest years John gave indications of superior talents, of fine taste, and of a pure and elevated tone of moral feeling, qualities which, as he advanced in age, became more and more conspicuously developed in his character. In 1810 his father died, and his mother removed to Edin- burgh, and John was entered a student at the high school of that northern Athens. He rose to the first place in his classes, and at graduation carried off the highest honors. At the university he sustained these early acquired distinctions, and, having become deeply convinced of his call to Gospel labors, he entered, in 1824, the divinity hall, then under the charge of the able and learned Dr. Ritchie. He now considered all other pursuits secondary to the study of theology, and applied the full energies of his mind to the subjects of that sacred science. He endeavored by unremitting ap- plication to increase his stock of theological acquire- ments, and engaged successively in the studj' of natural history, chemistry, and anatomy, both human and com- parative, from an anxiety to render all the talents he possessed and all his acquirements subservient to the duties of that holy profession to which he had dedicated his future life. INIr. Patterson, after becom- ing a licentiate, deferred all thoughts of an immediate settlement, and accepted a proposal made to lilm, in 1828, to superintend the studies of the young lord Cran- stoun at Oxford. After a brief absence Jlr. Patterson returned to Scotland, and bad not been long established at home, when Mr. Peel, then the home secretary, made him an unexpected offer of the vacant parish of Fal- kirk ; and from the moment of entering on the duties of the parish, which Patterson did in 1830, his ministry fully realized the highest expectations that had been formed of him. The exquisite beauty, the sparkling imagery, and the fine taste di:-played every Sabbath in
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his pulpit compositions ; the laborious visitations he ' made from house to house, in the town as well as in the country ; the lively interest he took in the religious ed- ucation of the young; and the many judicious plans he formed for the temporal as well as the spiritual well- being of the peo|)le, rendered him every day more dear to the aftections of all. But his bright career on earth was destined to be brief. He died suddenly, June 29, 1835, greatly mourned by all his people. Patterson wrote, besides a prize essay On the National Character of the Athenians (Lend. 1828; new ed. with Memoir by Prof. Pillans, Lond. 1859, cr. 8vo), Lectures on St. Johns Gospels (Lond. 1840, 12mo). His other Literary Remains were published with a Life (Edinb. 1837, 2 vols. 8vo). See Jamieson, Cyclop, of Relig. Bioyr. s. v. ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v, (J. H. W.)
Patterson, Joseph, a Presbyterian minister, was born in the north of Ireland, March 20, 1752. Little is known of his youth. In 1772 he emigrated to this countr}', taught school for a while, joined the Revolu- tionarj- army, from which he retired in 1777, and hav- ing gone West, was, in 1785, induced to turn his atten- tion to the study of theology ; he was licensed to preach in August, 1788, and for ten or twelve years from the following April had charge of the united churches of Eaccoon and Montour's Kun, Washington Countj', O., after which period he confined himself to the former. At the same time he made frequent missionary tours, spend- ing several months among the Shawnee Indians in 1802. In 1816 his health compelled him to resign his charge, and he retired to Pittsburgh, where he still preached occasionally until his death, Feb. 4, 1832. See Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, iv, 522.