Carlile Pollock Patterson {24 August 1816 - 15 August 1881}: scientist. The son of Captain Daniel Tod Patterson, Carlile was born in Shieldsborough, Mississippi. Like his father, Patterson entered the US Navy. He served as a midshipman for 5 years in the Mediterranean, then returned to the United States in 1835 to study engineering at Georgetown College in Kentucky. After his graduation he entered the federal coastal survey in 1861, and by 1874 was made superintendent. Under his administration the department was enlarged into a general geodetic survey, and Patterson was responsible for inaugurating many of the coastal experiments performed by the bureau, although he had no formal geodetic training. Patterson was a member of the US Lighthouse Board, and was awarded an honorary LL. D by Amherst College. He died in Washington, D.C. David Trotter Patterson {28 February 1818 - 3 November 18891}: senator from Tennessee. Born in Cedar Creek, Tennessee, Patterson attended the public schools and Greenville College {Greenville, Tennessee}, where he studied for two years. Following that he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1841, and began practice in Greenville. At the same time he took up manufacturing. In 1854 Patterson was appointed judge of the First Circuit Court of Tennessee; he sat on that bench for nine years. After the Civil War, when Tennessee was readmitted to the Union, Patterson was elected a Democrat to the Senate, where he served from 1866 to 1869; he was not a candidate for reelection. He returned to Greenville to manage various agricultural businesses. Patterson died in Afton, a town near Greenville.