Brief Life History of Benjamin Harrison
When Benjamin Harrison Patterson was born on 11 April 1888, in Casey, Kentucky, United States, his father, Howard Morton Patterson, was 20 and his mother, Martha Hogan Davenport, was 18. He married Rosie A. Mitchell on 11 July 1909, in Clay, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 3, Collin, Texas, United States in 1900. In 1940, at the age of 52, his occupation is listed as blacksmith - private practice in Henrietta, Clay, Texas, United States. He died on 1 December 1950, in Henrietta, Clay, Texas, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Riverland Cemetery, Stanfield, Clay, Texas, United States.
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- Ben Patterson in household of Howard M Patterson, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ben Patterson, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Ben Patterson, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
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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