Brief Life History of Orson Henry
When Orson Henry Patterson was born on 12 May 1874, in Alpha, Henry, Illinois, United States, his father, Franklin Patterson, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Lowe Stitt, was 33. He married Edyth Agnes Boyd on 26 January 1903, in Henry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Yorktown, Page, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Garfield Township, Jackson, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 19 July 1963, in Holton, Jackson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Holton, Jackson, Kansas, United States.
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- Orson H Patterson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Orson H. Patterson, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Orson Henry Patterson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1882
Historical Boundaries: 1882: Page, Iowa, United States
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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