Josiah Patterson {14 April 1837 - 10 February 1904}: representative from Tennessee, father of representative Malcolm Rice Patterson. Patterson was born in Morgan County, Alabama. He Attended public schools and the Somerville Academy, then studied law. He was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Morgan County in 1859. During the Civil War Patterson was a first lieutenant in the Army of the Confederacy. He attained the rank of captain, then colonel, and During the last year of the war was assigned the command of the Fifth Regiment of the Alabama Calvary. At the end of the war Patterson resume his law practice, settling in Florence, Alabama, in 1867. In 1872 he moved to Memphis and became a member of the state house of representatives. He was a presidential elector on the Democratic slate of 1888, and three years later was elected to the Fifty-second Congress. Hr was reelected twice but lost his bid for reelection to the Fifty-fifth Congress. Patterson resumed his private practice of law in Memphis, where he died. Thomas MacDonald Patterson {4 November 1839 - 23 July 1916}: delegate, representative, senator from Colorado. Patterson was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States with his parents; they settled in New York City in 1849. He attended the public schools there and then moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1853, where he worked in a printing office for three years and in the shop of a watchmaker and jeweler for five years. During the Civil War Patterson served in the Indiana Volunteer Infantry for one year; he then attended Indiana Asbury College {now DePauw University} for one year, and subsequently Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana---- also for one year. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and began practice in Crawfordsville. In 1872 Patterson moved to Denver, Colorado; there he continued his private practice and also served as city attorney in 1873 and 1874. He was elected a democratic delegate to the Forty-fourth Congress, and when the territory became a state in 1876 was elected a representative to the Forty-fifth Congress. He did not run for reelection to the Forty-fifth Congress, but returned to Denver to practice law. Patterson was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1874 to 1880, and a delegate to the Democratic National Committee of 1876, '80, '88, and '92. In 1890 he purchased the Rocky Mountain News, and later the Denver Times. In 1901 Patterson was elected to the senate; he served until 1907. He then returned to his newspaper business in Denver, where he died. John Henry Patterson {13 December 1844 - 7 May 1922}: manufacturer of cash registers. Patterson was born near Dayton, Ohio, the son of Jefferson and Julia Johnston Patterson. He grew up in a rural area, and attended Dayton Central High School, then Miami University in Oxford, Ohio --- for one year. He left in 1863 to enlist in the 131st Ohio Regiment, but never saw active service. After the war he entered Dartmouth College {Hanover, New Hampshire}. He was dissatisfied in College, and although he received his degree in 1867, he thought his liberal education useless. For several years he floundered, moving from one job to another. After several years as a coal merchant working with his brothers, Patterson invested his entire savings in the National Manufacturing Company of Dayton, which had just started making cash registers. Since the factory was doing very poorly, Patterson's brothers ridiculed him for the investment. But he had finally, at forty, found a use for his broad college education; psychology, philosophy, mathematics---all were useful; he took over the company and bankrolled it into the famous National Cash Register. Patterson became interested in the machine as well as the company, and developed many improvements in its structure. After the first few years with the company, however, he left the technical matters to the expert mechanics, and took over the sales department----where he again became interested in development. He employed many novel advertising devices, including sales conventions, educational programs for his salesmen, commissions for high sales performance, and direct--mail promotion. {He was one of the first to depend heavily on direct--mail.} Patterson was also a pioneer in employee relations; he established many health and welfare measures to protect his workers, including the development of a factory school for education and entertainment, generous insurance benefits, and the creation of playgrounds and gardens in the area surrounding the factory. Patterson was married on 18 December 1888 to Katherine Beck, and had two children. He died while on a trip to Atlantic City.