Brief Life History of Charles Adam
Charles Adam Patterson was born on 17 March 1890, in Russia as the son of Anthony Patterson and Mihalis Patterson. He married Fannie Williams on 29 May 1917, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Harrison, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Aliquippa, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 17 April 1959, in Kilbuck Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Aliquippa, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Charles A Patterson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Adam Patterson - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Charles Adam Patterson
- Charles Adam Patterson, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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