When Neil Arnold Patterson was born on 17 October 1915, in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States, his father, Cornelius Arnold Patterson, was 35 and his mother, Mary Leonora Ingram, was 31. He married Ruthe Vivian Preston on 20 June 1934, in Bell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 29 September 2002, in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Restland Cemetery, Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
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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 .
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