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Notes for Robert Mayne PATTERSON
PATTERSON, Robert Mayne, clergyman, editor and author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 17, 1832; son of John and Margaret (Mayne) Patterson, who were of Scotch extraction, and born near Belfast, Ireland, coming to America early in the nineteenth century. He completed the public and high school course, being graduated with the first honor in 1849, and was an official reporter of the U.S. senate, 1850-55. He was graduated from Princeton Theological seminary in 1859, and was ordained by the presbytery of Philadelphia, Aug. 25, 1859. He was married in 1861 to Margaret Baxter Maclay, daughter of the Rev. James and Sarah Nourse, of Washington, Pa., and his wife died in 1863. He was married secondly, in 1867, to Rebecca Thomas, daughter of Joseph and Amy Malin, of Chester Valley, Pa. He was pastor at Great Valley, Pa., 1859-67; of the South church, Philadelphia, 1867-81; and in 188l returned to the Great Valley church, uniting with his pastoral duties the editorship of the Presbyterian Journal width he conducted, 1881-94. He was a member of the committee to revise and publish the "Digest of the Acts of the Assembly" (1871); a member of the council that met in London in 1875 to form an international Presbyterian alliance; a delegate to the pan-Presbyterian councils in Philadelphia, 1880, Belfast, Ireland, 1884, Edinburgh, 1888; moderator of the synod of Pennsylvania 1890, and member of fourteen General Assemblies. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the College of New Jersey in 1875, and that of LL.D. by Lafayette [p.224] college in 1881. He is the author of: What is Our Duty? (1863); Character of Abraham Lincoln (1864); Revival Councils (1871); Counsel to Young Converts (1871); Total Abstinence (1872); Presbyterianism in Philadelphia (1873); Which is the Apostolic Church? (1874); Paradise: the Place and State of Saved Souls Between Death and the Resurrection (1874); History of the Synod of Philadelphia (1876); Visions of Heaven for the Life on Earth (1877); Elijah, the Favored Man (1880): Proceedings of the Pan-Presbyterian Council of 1880 (1881); American Presbyterianism in its Development and Growth (1896); The Angels and their Ministrations (1900); Short Method with Skeptics (1900); and editor of The Presbyterian, 1868-80.
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