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PANGBURN, Noah H .:
Insurance agent; born in Allegheny County, Pa .. Feb. 12, 1840; son of Isane and Susan (Hill) Pangburn. His pater- nal grandfather was Stephen Pangburn, a pioreer of Allegheny County: his ma- ternal grandfather was Samuel Hill, of Lycoming County; educated in his na- tive county. In 1862 he enlisted in Com- pany E. 155th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and participated in twenty-two engagements, among which were Chancel- lorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spott- sylvania, Bethesda Church, North Anna, Cold Harbor. Petersburg, Five Forks. and Appomattox; was honorably dis- charged June 2, 1865, by reason of the close of the war, and, returning home. engaged in the milling business. In 16S he located in Beaver Falls, Pa., and engaged in the insurance business; has served five years as Justice of the Peace: elected Burgess of Beaver Falls, Pa .. 1881-1$$3, and from 1897 to 1900. He is a member of the G. A. R., Union Veteran Legion and is a F. and A. M. Republican in politics. Address, Beaver Falls, Pa.
PARDEE, Calvin:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Sergeant First Pennsylvania In- fantry, April 21, 1861; mustered out. July 29, 1861; Second Lieutenant Twenty- eighth Pennsylvania Infantry. Ang. 12. 1861: First Lieutenant, Dec. 20, 1861: transferred to 117th Pennsylvania Infan- try. Oct. 1, 1862; resigned and honorably discharged, Oct. 30, 1562. Elected May 5. 1SS6. Address, 125 Drexel Building. Philadelphia, Pa.
PARDEE, Israel P .:
President of the Hazleton National Bank. Address, Hazleton, Luzerne Coun- ty, Pa.
PARET, Thomas Dunkin:
Inventor; born in New York, Dec. 20. 1837; was educated in the public schools of New York, and took a full course at University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In- vented process for treating waste leath- er so as to fit it for lining petroleum barrels, fire-proof safes, etc., and, under the name of "tanite," for use as substi- tute for jet and ebonite for various pur- poses, and as a base for solid emery wheels. Is President of the Tanite Com- pany. manufacturers of emery wheels, Address, Stroudsburg, Pa.
PARKE, Wm. E., M. D .:
Born near Parkesburg, Chester County, Pa., Feb. 17, 1862; educated in private schools and was graduated at Princeton College in 1883. Received the degree of M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1SS6; thereafter became resident phy- sician at the Philadelphia Hospital. and later at Girard College. Since 1590 has been in private practice in the city of Philadelphia; has been attached to the Presbyterian Hospital, the Polyclinic Hospital, and the Kensington Hospital for Women. Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and a mein- ber of the County and State Medical Societies, and of the American Medical Association. Address, 1739 North Seven- teenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PARKER. JJoseph Benson:
Medical Director United States Navy; native of Pennsylvania; entered Volunteer service as Acting Assistant Surgeon, March. 1863, and served continuously in the Mississippi Squadron until October, 1865, date of honorable discharge; pre- vious duty during the war, at army hos- pitals, Camden and University (Balti- more), Campbell (Washington). Lawson (St. Louis, Mo.). Appointed Assistant Surgeon, Nov. 24. 1866; Passed Assistant Surgeon, Dec. 31, 1967; Surgeon, Aug. 13. 1876: miscellaneous service in the follow- ing order: Naval Academy. De Sota, North Atlantic Squadron; Rendezvous. New York: Tallapoosa. Nantasket, North Atlantic Squadron; receiving ship Poto- mac; hospital. Chelsea; hospital. Brook- lyn; Asiatie Squadron; special duty. Bu- reau Medicine and Surgery; Assistant to
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Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Sur- gery; Wachusett, Pacific Squadron, Tor- pedo Station; Swatara and Ossipee, North Atlantic Squadron; Navy Yard, Boston, August, 18SS, to October, 1891; Charles- ton, special service, squadron, January, 192, to October, 1594; Medical Inspector, November, 1894; special duty with Senate Committee investigating Ford's Theatre disaster, March, 1895; in charge of hos- pital and Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H .; January, 1598, member and President of Medical and Examining Boards, Wash- ing, D. C., to 1903. Promoted to Medical Director, June, 159S; April 1, 1901, in charge Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Retired June 20, 1903. Address, 4123 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PARMLEE, G. N .:
President of the Warren National Bank. Address, Warren, Warren County, Pa.
PARRY, Henry C .:
. President of the People's National Bank of Langhorne. Address, Lang- horne. Bucks County, Pa.
PARRY, Richard Randolph :
President New Hope Delaware Bridge Company; born Dec. 5, 1835, at Philadel- phia, Pa .; son of Oliver Parry and Rachel Randolph Parry. Banker at Mankato, Minn., 1856-1862; drygoods commission merchant, New York City and Philadel- phia 1866-1873. Life member of Historical Society of Pennsylvania since 1855; mem- ber of Bucks County, Pa., Historical So- ciety and Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution; Companion of the Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Pennsylvania Commandery. President of New Hope Delaware Bridge Company. Has contributed articles to the Press and published works. Married, Oct. 11, 1566, Miss Ellen L. Read, of Port- land, Me .; they have three children, Ger- trude, Adelaide and Oliver Randolph Par- ry; born March 29, 1873. He resides at The Old Parry Mansion, New Hope Bor- ough. Bucks County, Pa., erected for his grandfather, Benjamine Parry, in A. D. 1754, which has never been out of the Parry family. Address, New Hope Post Office, Bucks County, Pa.
PARSONS, John B .:
Railway official: born in Sussex Coun- ty. Del., May 17. 1850; educated in the Academy at Salisbury, Md .. and entered his father's mercantile establishment at
the age of sixteen; his father, James A. Parsons, was wrecked financially through endorsing notes for friends, and the son, feeling the weight of the family thrown on his shoulders, went to Philadelphia in 1870 in search of work; he found employ- ment as clerk in the office of William W. Colket, then Secretary and Treasurer of the Chestnut and Walnut Streets Rail- way; his energy and ability brought him rapid promotion, and in two years he was made division Superintendent of the road. In 1881 he was elected President and Gen- eral Manager of the Lombard and South Streets Railway, and displayed an execu- tive ability in the management of its affairs that attracted the attention of the railway magnates of the country. He went to Chicago in 1887 as Vice President and General Manager of the West Chicago Street Railway, and became there an of- ficial of several other railway companies; he was also a Trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago. Ten years later he returned to Philadelphia to become Vice President and General Manager of the Union Traction Company; he proved so efficient in this duty that in September, 1897, he was elected a Director of this company. Since the formation of the Rapid Transit Company, which has ab- sorbed all the former railway organiza- tions of Philadelphia, he has been made President of this Company, which position he now holds. Address, 2013 Spring Gar- den St., Philadelphia.
PASSMORE, JJohn A .:
Philanthropist; born in Chester County, Pa., in 1841; was graduated from the State Normal School, Millersville, Pa., in class of 1860; is a member of the Histori- cal Society of Pennsylvania, and the Union League Club. Address, Union
League Club, Philadelphia, Pa.
PATCH, Alexander McCarrell:
Captain United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Military Academy Sept. 1, 1873; additional Second Lieutenant Eighth Cavalry June 15, 1877; Second Lieutenant Fourth Cav- alry Dec. 7, 1877; First Lieutenant May 5, 1SS0; Regimental Quartermaster Oct. 1. 1880 to May 1, 1SS7; retired with rank of Captain, March 9, 1891. Engaged in general merchandise business at Corn- wall, Pa., to 1897; was elected Treasurer of the Cornwall Railroad Company, April 30. 1897; elected Superintendent and Treas- urer of the Cornwall Railroad Company on
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Jan. 25, 1898 filling said positions up to March 30, 1904; elected President Cornwall Railroad Company, March 30, 1904. Ad- dress, Lebanon, Pa.
PATTEE, Fred Lewis:
Educator; Professor of English literg- ture of the Pennsylvania State College; born at Bristol, N. H., March 22. 1503; was graduated from Dartmouth College, 1888 (A. M.); married, March 9, 1889, Anna L. Plumer. Contributor to maga- zines. Author of "The Wine of May and Other Lyrics," 1893; "Pasquaney, a Study," 1894; "A History of American Literature," 1996; "Reading Courses in American Literature," 1897; "The Foun- dations of English Literature," 1900. He edited. Shakespeare's "Macbeth," 1897; "Mary Garvin," 1902. Editor of "The Poetical Works of Philip Freneau," 1903. Address, State College, Center County, Pa.
PATTERSON, A. C .:
President of the Excelsior Trust and Savings Fund Company. Address, Lehigh and Germantown Aves., Philadelphia, Pa.
PATTERSON, C. Stuart:
Lawyer, author; born in Philadelphia, June 24, 1842; educated in the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1860. He decided on the legal profes- sion and entered upon a course of study of the law, gaining admission to the bar of Philadelphia in 1865. Meanwhile he had some experience in the Civil War, joining in 1863 Landis's Artillery Company and be- ing wounded in the Gettysburg campaign. His legal practice grew large and impor- tant and he became an authority in real estate and constitutional law. From 1887 to 1892 he was Professor of the Law of Real Estate and Conveyancing and of Constitutional Law in the University of Pennsylvania, and till 1896 was dean of the Law Department in that institution. He was Inspector of the State Peniten- tiary at Philadelphia, 1884-1891; he retired from practice in 1995 and since then has been devoted to banking and railroad in- terests, becoming in that year a Director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; he is also President of the Western Sav- ing Fund Society and of the Commercial Trust Company. In 1997 he presided over the Indianapolis Monetary Convention and was a member of the Monetary Commis- sion appointed by it. He is the author of treatises on "Constitutional Limitations,"
"Railway Accident Law," "Federal Re- straints on State Action," "The United States and the State Under the Constitu- tion," and many historical and political pamphlets. Member of the Philosophical Society, the Sons of the Revolution, the Phi Beta Cappa Fraternity, the Union League of Philadelphia (President, 1897- 1898), the Century Association of New York, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Contemporary and other clubs. Address, Chestnut Hill; of- fice, 1000 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PATTERSON, Francis Engle:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loval Le- gion; eidest son of Companion Brevet Brig. Gen. Robert E. Patterson. Elected Nov. 5, 1884. Address, 1715 Francis St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PATTERSON, George Robert:
Member of Congress; born Lewistown, Pa., Nov. 9, 1863; son of Joseph Alexan- der and Anna G. Patterson; was educated in the public schools and at the Lewis- town Academy. Was salesman in the hardware business; for ten years was in the flour and feed business; now agent of the Minneapolis mills in Central Pennsyl- vania. Active in politics. Has frequent- ly been a delegate to local and State con- ventions: represents the Twelfth Congres- sional District. Republican in politics. Address, Ashland, Pa.
PATTERSON. George Stuart:
Professor of Law; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 10, 1868; son of Christopher S. Pat- terson, at one time Professor and Dean of the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Patterson studied law in that institution, after preparatory study at Haverford College, and received the degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1890, and of Bachelor of Laws in 1591. On graduation he was elected a Fellow of the Law Department, and in 1593 was appointed to his present position of Pro- fessor of Law. In his legal work he is Assistant Solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He is a member of the Delta Psi fraternity. Address, Chest- nut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.
PATTERSON, I. N .:
President of the Franklin Savings Bank. Address, Franklin, Venango County, Pa.
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PATTERSON, James L .:
President of the Burgettstown National Bank. Address, Burgettstown, Washing- ton County, Pa.
PATTERSON, James W .:
President of the Pittsburg, Carnegie & Western Railroad Company; was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in May, 1St .. His an- cestors on the paternal side were from the North of Ireland. His grandfather, Nathaniel Patterson, born in Kentucky, a surveyor by profession, was a participant in the War of 1812, and his father, J. W. Patterson, was a Major of the Sixty-sec- ond Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War. Graduating from the public schools of Pittsburg, young Pat- terson studied his profession in the em- ploy of his father, in which he attained such proficiency in general engineering and municipal improvements. that. before he reached his twenty-eighth year, he was offered and accepted the position of Principal Assistant Engineer in charge of the construction of Pittsburg's Water Works. In 1SSS Mr. Patterson was Super- intendent of the U. S. Government build- ings, and has since been engaged in the development of and making preliminary surveys for proposed railways in Western Pennsylvania, and has located many of the railroads now in existence in that growing section of the country. Mr. Pat- terson is now President of the Pittsburg, Carnegie & Western Railroad. a Wabash affiliation, of which he is making a suc- cess, though he makes no pretensions to other claims than that of being a com- mon, everyday civil engineer, still a stu- dent, and aiming to become a "top- notcher" in his profession. He held a po- sition in the Select Councils of Pittsburg from 1877 to 1879, and is a member of the Monongahela Club of that city. He was married at Pittsburg on Feb. 3, 1870, to Miss Margaret Campbell, to whom thir- teen children were born, eight of whom are living, including J. W. Patterson, Jr., a civil engineer in charge of construc- tion work in Green County, Pa .. and F. P. Patterson, dramatic editor of the Pitts- burg, Dispatch. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
PATTERSON, Peter:
Consulting Engineer of the National Tube Company; born in Jedburgh, Scot- land. May 12, 1842. His father was a blacksmith and engineer, and his ances- tors had lived in Scotland for centuries. Mr. Patterson attended the public schools
of Jedburgh and afterward was appren- ticed in his father's shop. Upon complet - ing his apprenticeship, he went to Edin- burgh, Scotland, where he worked in sev- eral engineering establishments. Then he went to Glasgow, where he was em- ployed in some of the marine engine works. He secured for himself a thor- ough practical training, which has stood him well in hand in his later life. In 1866 Mr. Patterson moved to America, working for a short time in. Connecticut. and then in New York City for four years as a machinist. In 1871 he secured a po- sition with the National Tube Works at Boston, Mass., as a machinist, and after six months there he was sent to Mc- Keesport, Pa., to erect the machinery in the mill then building. He was later made foreman machinist, and held that posi- tion a number of years. After assisting in the construction of the National Roll- ing Mills Department of the National Tube Works Company, he became Superintend- ent of the National Tube Works. He satisfactorily filled this position until 1897. when he became Consulting Engineer of the National Tube Works Company and Manager of the United States Seamless Tube Works. These latter works he de- signed and constructed. Mr. Patterson continued in these positions until he be- came Consulting Engineer of the Nation- al Tube Company. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
PATTERSON, P. C .:
Mechanical engineer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1869. At an early age moved with his parents to Mckeesport and ob- tained the first rudiments of his educa- tion there. While attending school he worked during his spare time in the ma- chine shop of the National Tube Com- pany, and also during the summer vaca- tion. After quitting school remained at work a year. in the meantime having taken a course in the engineering de- partment of the Western University of Pennsylvania. Later was transferred to the draughting department and became foreman of the machine shop, from which place he was called to the post of Con- strueting Engineer, and later made Su- perintendent of the lap mill. A number of his patents are now used at the works. Mr. Patterson is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the Iron and Steel h- stitute of Great Britain. AAddress. Frick Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
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PATTERSON, Robt. M., D. D .. LL. D .:
Clergyman, author; born in Philadel- phia, July 17, 1832; son of John and Mar- garet Mayne Patterson. In 1861 married Margaret Baxter McClay Nourse, daught- er of Rev. James Nourse of Washington, D. C., and after her decease, in 1867, Re- becca Thomas Malin, daughter of Joseph and Amy Malin. of Chester Valley, Pa. Was graduated at the Philadelphia High School in 1819. Official reporter in the United States Senate; studied law; en- tered Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated in 1559. In 1859 ordained to the ministry and settled as pastor of the Great Valley Presbyterian Church, Chester County, Pa. In 1867 called to the South Presbyterian Church Philadelphia. 1888-1893 editor of the Presbyterian Jour- nal. Returned to pastorate at Great Val- ley. The Philadelphia High School gave him the degree of A. M .; the College of New Jersey, D. D., and Lafayette Col- lege. LL. D. He has been prominent in the Councils of the Presbyterian Church and as counsel in important judicial cases. Author of "Paradise," "Visions of Heaven for the Life on Earth," "Elijah the Favored Man." "American Presbyte- rianism in its Devolpment and Growth," "The Angels and Their Ministrations." "Presbyterianism in Philadelphia." "The Synod of Philadelphia," "The Synod of Pennsylvania." Edited Second General
Council of the Presbyterian Alliance,
Witherow's "Which is
the Apostolic Church?" Many review and magazine ar- ticles, sermons and tracts. Address, Malvern, Chester County, Pa.
PATTERSON, S. H .:
President of the Dunbar Bank.
Ad- dress, Dunbar, Fayette County, Pa.
PATTERSON, Theodore F .:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion; private Washington Artillery (Com- pany H. Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Infan- try) April 18, 1861; mustered out Aug. 1. 1861; private Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry Sept. 9, 1861: Sergeant Oct. 30. 1861: discharged for promotion March 30, 1862; First Lieutenant Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry March 31. 1862: dis- charged to accept appointment in United States Signal Corps June 6, 1864. First Lieutenant United States Signal Corps March 3. 1863; appointment expired July 4. 1864; Second Lieutenant United States Signal Corps March 3, 1863; declined Aug.
31, 1864; appointment cancelled Sept. 10, 1864. Elected April 6. 1870. Address, care of Recorder of the Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PATTERSON, William:
President of the National Bank of Law- rence County. Address, Newcastle, Law- rence County, Pa.
PATTERSON, William J .:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Second Lieutenant Sixty-Second Pennsylvania Infantry July 14. 1861; re- signed and honorably discharged Oct. S, 1863, for wounds received in action. Was elected Oct. 16, 1889. Address care of Re- corder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PATTISON. O .:
Banker; born May 12, 1838, at Chester, Warren County, N. Y .; educated in the public schools of Lawrenceville, Tioga County, Pa. He was Burgess of Elkland Borough, Tioga County, Pa. Married Su- san Bloore at Watkins, Schuyler County, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1867. He was cashier for C. L. Pattison & Co., bankers, Elkland, Pa., until June 10, 1896, when, on the death of his brother, C. L. Pattison, the Pattison National Bank was organized, of which he is President. Democrat in poli- tics. Address, Elkland, Tioga County, Pa.
PATTISON, Robert E ..:
Ex-Governor of Pennsylvania; born in Quantico, Md .. Dec. S, 1>50; son of Rev. Robert H. Pattison, a prominent divine in the Methodist Church. His parents re- moved to Philadelphia when he was six years old, and he was educated in the public schools of that city, delivering the valedictory address of his class on his graduation from the Central High School. Selecting the law for his profession, he entered the office of Lewis C. Cassidy, then one of the most brilliant advocates of the Pennsylvania bar; he was admitted to practice in 1872, and had excellent promise of success, but his fluency as a public speaker led him into the political field as one of the leaders of the Demo- cratie Party in Philadelphia. His grow- ing prominence in the party councils brought him forward as a candidate for Auditor General of the State in 1977. but he was defeated in the convention by William P. Schell. A few months after- ward he was nominated for City Control-
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ler; reform in this department was badly needed, the people were in a mood to re- volt against the dominant party, and Mr. Pattison was elected by 2,000 majority; he was put there to reform the adminis- tration of the office, and he did this so decidedly as to mect the warm approval of the people. At the next election he was again triumphant, this time with 13,593 majority, though opposed by a strong candidate. His probity in office won him the confidence of the people irre- spective of party, and at the election for Governor in 1882 he was nominated and received at the election a majority of 40,202 votes over his opponent, he being the first Democratic Governor of Pennsyl- vania for thirty years; in the Guberna- torial chair he succeeded in reducing the State debt, in holding corporations strictly to the law, repressing extravagant appro- priations, and in managing the State finances with unusual economy. He re- tired in 1886, since no Governor can hold office for two consecutive terms. During the next four years he was engaged in legal practice and was made President of the Chestnut Strect National Bank, while as President of the Pacific Railroad Com- mission, to which President Cleveland ap- pointed him, he gave a most valuable re- port of the financial state of that corpor- ation. In 1890 he was again nominated for Governor on a reform platform, and was elected with a majority of 16.554, run- ning 37,000 ahead of his party ticket; this term of office was distinguished by the. same qualities which made the former one memorable, and Governor Pattison retired with a national reputation for probity and public spirit. Since then he has practiced law. In 1902 he was the Democratic can- didate for Governor, but was defeated. Address, 5930 Drexel Road, Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa.
PATTON, Alexander Ennis:
State Senator from Clearfield County; born in Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pa., Oct. 20, 1852; educated in the com- mon schools of his native town, Dick- inson Seminary, Chester Military Acade- my and at Phillips Academy. Andover, Mass., started out for himself at nineteen years of age; went to Iowa and engaged in farming and the nursery business; re- turned to his native town in 18;7, and ac- cepted a position in the Curwensville Bank; has been identified with the de- velopment of coal railways and the indus- trial world; takes an active interest in
the common schools; was twice President of the Directors' Convention of Clearfield County; is a Trustee of Dickinson College and a Director of Dickinson Seminary; served as delegate to county, State and national conventions; was one of the electors at large from Pennsylvania at the Presidential election in 1896; elected to the Senate in November, 1902. Ad- dress, Curwensville, Pa.
PATTON, Edward W .:
Conveyancer; born in Philadelphia, June 6, 1846; his grandfather, Abraham Patton, was for many years engaged in the jew- elry business in that city, and his father, P. I. Patton, was actively connected with the Philadelphia Passenger Railway. Mr. Patton was educated in the public schools, and in 1863, on Lee's invasion of Pennsyl- vania, he enlisted at seventeen as a pri- vate in Landis's Battery; a year later hc was made an officer in the Navy and served till the close of the war. He was then appointed Paymaster's clerk of the District of Pennsylvania; he resigned in 1867 and engaged with his father in ex- tensive building operations in Philadel- phia, the firm erccting over four hundred houses in the next four years. Since that date he has been actively engaged in the real estate and conveyancing business as head of the firm of Edward W. Patton & Co. An active Republican in politics, he was elected to the Select Council from the Twenty-seventh Ward of Philadelphia in 1877, and has since served in that position. He is President of the Bayard Smelting and Milling Company, New Mexico, and of the Powellton Real Estate Association, and is Treasurer of the Electric Milling and Mining Company, South Dakota. He has long been prominent in the Masonic Order. Address, 403 Betz Building, Phila- delphia, Pa.
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