Pattison, Robert Everett, D.D., an American Baptist divine who distinguished himself in the pulpit and the rostrum, was born at Benton, Vt., Aug. 19, 1800, and was educated at Amherst College, Mass.,
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class of 182C. He was at once made tutor in Colum- bian College, Washington, D. C. He was ordained for the work of the holy ministry at Salem, Mass., in 1829, and in 1830 became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Providence, R. I. — a most important charge. He was elected in 1836 president of Waterville College, Me., holding the position till 1810, -When he was re- called to his pastorate in Providence. In 1843 he was appointed one of the corresponding secretaries of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. He returned to his educational labors as a professor in the Covington Theological Seminar}-, Ky., in 1846. But in 1848 the legislature of that state (by an act afterwards declared unconstitutional) reconstructed the board of trustees, compelling his resignation. He was shortly after ' elected professor of theology in the Newton Theolog- ical Institution, Mass., resigning his chair in 1853 to serve a second term as president of Waterville College. He was subsequently at the head of Onead Female In- stitute, Worcester, Mass., and a professor successively in the theological department of Shurtleff College, 111., and in the Baptist Theological Seminarj% Chi- cago. He died in 1874. Dr. Pattison was an emi- nently pious and modest man. He wrote considerably for periodicals, and was the author of a Ciymmentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians (1859). (L. E. S.)
Pattison, Robert H., D.D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born near Cambridge, Md., Jan. 22, 1824. He was the child of Methodist parents, at the early age of ten was converted, and at once joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. At four- teen he entered the preparator}' department of Dickin- son College, and, after passing successfulh' through the entire curriculum of studv, he graduated in the class of 1843. During his residence at Carlisle he was licensed to preach. At the close of his collegiate ca- reer he taught for two years at Baltimore. He was admitted into the Philadelphia Conference in April, 1846. His first appointment was Dorchester Circuit as junior preacher. His subsequent appointments were : Seaford, Princess Anne, Church Creek, Quantico, Snow Hill, Middletown, and Cantwell's Bridge, Del. ; Asbury, Philadelphia; Kensington; Twelfth Street, Philadelphia; Port Deposit; St. George's, Philadelphia: Tabernacle, Philadelphia; St. Peter's, Reading, Har- risburg District; West Philadelphia, where he died, Feb. 14, 1875. At the conference of 1858 Dr. Pat- tison was chosen its secretary, and he continued to hold that office until his death. In 1868 he was a del- egate to the General Conference, and was chosen by that body as one of its assistant secretaries. He was also associated with the management of most of the various religious and benevolent organizations con- nected with the Philadelphia Conference, and was for several years a mem1)er of the Parent IMissionary Board at New York. " Dr. Pattison was a good man, a true Methodist, a faithful pastor, an acceptable and earnest preacher, and a Ciiristian gentleman, whom to know was to esteem and love. Less brilliant, per- haps, than some, he was wiser and more consistent than many, while his sound judgment, unswerving integrity, unfailing courtesy, unwearying diligence, kindly sympatliy, and unwavering loj'alty to religion, friendship, and patriotism, made him a man to honor, trust, and love." See Minutes of Conftrences, 1875, p. 40. (.J.H.W.)
Patton, Samukl, D.D., a distinguished minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Lan- caster District, S. C, Jan. 27, 1797, of Presbyterian par- ents. His childhood was serious. He was converted in 1816 in a Methodist revival which he happened to attend. He was soon persuaded of liis duty to preach the Gospel, but for a time strove mucli against these impressions. He emigrated with liis parents to Georgia, and from thence to Tennessee, in 1819. Soon after he was licensed to preach, and joined the Tennessee Conference, and was
stationed at Sequacby Valley, Tenn. ; he was next suc- cessively preacher in charge at Clinch, West Ya. ; Tus- caloosa Circuit, Ala. ; and the so-called Alabama Circuit. His health failing him, he located, and finally removed to Holston Conference, East Tennessee, in 1825, and was presiding elder on Abingdon District the same year; was on stations and districts till 1838-9, when he was made agent for Holston College; then on districts and stations till 1847, when he was made editor of the Holston Chris- tian Advocate, in which work he died, August, 1854, in holy peace, trusting in the merits of Christ, and declar- ing " all is well." Dr. Patton was a studious and earnest man and preacher. He stood in the first ranks of the ministry of his Church. See Deems, Annals of South- ern Me'thodism for 1855, p. 341, (J, H, W.)
Pattrick, George, LL,B., a pious Calvinistic Eng- lish divine, was born near Colchester in 1746, He was educated at St, Paul's School ; studied the law and practiced at Dedham, but relinquished his profession, received orders in 1770, and entered himself at Sid- ney Sussex College, Cambridge, He became vicar of Aveley, Essex, in 1772; chaplain of Morden College, Blackheath, in 1787. In 1790 he was suddenly dis- missed for being a Methodist, but was finally reinstated as lecturer of Woolwich in 1792, and of St, Bride's, Fleet Street, and of St, Leonard's, London, in 1797. He died in 1800, His Sermons, with a Help to Prayer ; to which are pirefixed Memoirs of the Life of the Author (Lond, 1801, 8vo), were published after his death. See Darling, Cyclop). Bihliog. s. v.