An Interesting Bit of History - 1909
The Robesonian. volume (Lumberton, N.C.), 22 Feb. 1909
Contact: Myrtle Bridges

	The following Barnwell, S.C., dispatch of Jan. 23 to the Columbia State will be of interest to many Robesonian readers:
"E.L.Patterson, a brother of Congressman J.O. Patterson of this place, and one of the most prominent citizens of Barnwell county, 
lies critically ill at St. Luke's hospital in New York city and is not expected to survive the night.
	"Dr. Patterson was taken to New York about 10 days ago to have an operation performed and since that time he has been steadily sinking. 
"Mrs. Patterson,Congressman Patterson and another brother, Mr. J.A. Patterson of Allendale, are at his bedside.
	"Dr. Patterson's grandfather, Angus Patterson, was a native of North Carolina and a member of the South Carolina State senate for 30 years, 
at one time being president of that body.
	"Dr. Patterson's father, the late Mr. E.L. Patterson, was a wealthy planter of the county.
	We insert the above because Dr. Patterson is well known to some of us and related to a host of North Robensonians. His grandfather,
 Angus Patterson, was born and reared to manhood near the residence of the late R.G. McNair, in North Robeson, on the Lumberton and Carthage
 road. After studying in the common schools of the neighborhood, he decided to study medicine, and as the custom of that day was to read and 
 study under a preceptor for a year before entering a medical college, he began his course of study under the tutilage of the late Dr. Edmund
 McQueen, of Lumberton. He, with one or two other students, made a raid, one dark rainy night, on a neighboring graveyard to supply themselves
 with a subject for the more practical study of anatomy than the dry descriptions given in books. But to their dismay they were caught in their
 gruesome act and rather than face the court, they fled the State. Angus Patterson went to Barnwell, S.C., gave up medicine, studied law became
 a very distinguished lawyer and statesman, an intimate personal friend of John C. Calhoun, and one of the largest land and slave owners in
 his adopted State. In recognition of his services to the State his biography was published by order of the General Assembly of South Carolina. 
 Two of his sisters, the late Mrs. Betsy McNair and Mrs. Annie Conoly, lived to good old age, and in their sphere were in many respects the 
 equal of their distinguished brother. Mrs. McNair was the mother of Rev. Evander McNair, D.D., now of Missouri; Dr. John McNair, of South 
 Carolina; Dugald P. McNair, a prominent educator of Texas, and the late Daniel and R.G. McNair, of this county. Mrs. Conoly was the mother 
 of the late Maj. J.A.P., also James, W.S. and Sidney Conoly, of Lumber Bridge township, and Mesdames Joe Prevatt and Sim Carlyle, of Lumberton.
 Red Springs, N.C., February 19, 1909

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