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CIVIL ENGINEER
520 ALASKA BUILDING
SEATTLE

April 19th, 1016.

Dr. James K. Patterson,
Lexington, Kentucky,

Dear Dr. Patterson:——~ I am the son of Prof. Thomson
who taught long at Hanover. In 1877, you delivered to me my
diploma as a member of the Philalathean Society.

In the Hanover Triangle of April the 8th, I note that you
have just celebrated your eighty—third birth—day, and on this
account, I desire to congratulate you. I also note that you were
graduated from Hanover College in 1856, the year of my birth. It is
a bare possibility that you have a memory of seeing Baby Thomson at

Hanover that ear in which case I am he. I note also that you
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are the eldest living alumnus of Iota chapter cf Beta Theta Pi.

I also am a Beta and desire to send a Beta's greeting.

In your address at the time of delivering the diplomas in
1877, you referred to a coming world contest in which the Muscovite
was to lock horns with the Musselman. I have wondered many time
whether or not you regard the present conflict as the fulfillment
of prOphecy, as foreJeasted by you at that time. If so, I should
be very delighted to have a word from you on that point.

Also, was your address given at Hanover in 1877, ever printed:

Very sincerely yours

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’eooveries on the Western Continent, Hume'n

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of the Roman ,7 : . were read with avidity and profit.

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and nominally under the supervision of Hon, Edward Eu3sey, a man

of rare ability and excellence of Character, whose uncle, James

Rumsey, was the inventor of the steamboat. He remained in Green"

ville three years, when he was elected principal of

tory department of Stewart College, Clark

the year following he was promoted to the .rc

and Latin in that ingtitution. UIon the outlmr

1861, the M _.., ‘spended operationsg Through the good Officeg
of Dr. R. ran ., of Lexington, Kentucky, he found employment
immediately thereafter as principal of the Transylvania Hi
School, which; osition he held until 1865.

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the recommendation of the out—going board of trustees

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eeleot and placed at his disposal, Plutaroh’e Lives, ELanieh

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and rxomin ally under the oUDPIflSJL“ of Hon, Edward Fumsey, a man
of rare ability and excellence of character, whose uncle James

Mlsey, was the inventor of the steamboat. He remain
ville three years, when he wan elected principal
tory department of Stewart College, — esville, Tennessee.
t e year following he was promoted
n_d Latin in that institution.
1831, the college suspended operations.‘ Through the
of Dr. R. G. Branch, of Lexington, Kentucky, he found employment
immediate 1" there after as principal of the Transylvania High
School, which position he held until 1865. L1on the consolida~
tion of Kentucky University with Tran neylvania, he
the recommendation of the out-going board of trustee‘

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In 1869, Mr. Patterson was elected president of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, which in 1865
had become one of the colleges of Kentucky University. In this
capacity he continued to act until 1878, when the Agricultural

and Mechanical College was ﬁetacaed by the legislature from its

former connection anu placed upon an independent footing, When

the college was reorganized, he was unanimously elected by the

.,

incoming boaro as its presidentt In 1880 he obtained from the
.ure of Kentucky, the 3 '. ~ of a tax of oneutwenti~
a mill for the further eniovgu'a “f the institution. The
was '”u~i.ie by the denominational
contest was 3 =;" ,:t 2‘ .~. leaislature and
by him, aingleuhanjeﬂ and - c r The measure to
tax was defeateﬂ in '-; hzr‘;‘« to; it: the constituw
act triumphantly ne’K «z ,u In en; courts.

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annual appropriation u r . In 1900, he procured
an appropriation from the state legislature for the erection of
a gymnasium and a hall for young women, and 1904, secured adm
diticnal endowment for the college by an annual appropriation of
$15,000. per annum. In 1906, Senator Nelson of Minnesota bore
testimony to the service that he had rendered him in procuring a
supplementary appropriation in Congress of $25,000. per annum

for the further endowmen. the colleges founded under the act

’ l~ the Legislature of Kenn
:ollege into the State University, and
~ntinued at the head.
resigned the PreeidencY after a

forty years. e‘ retrospect will Show the progrem

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the institution wve $9,000. per annum; it had neither laborator~

ies nor museums nor equipment of any kind, and Nut one building,

which had formerly been used as a residence and was improvised
for purposes of instruction; In his retirement he turned over
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fiftymtwo acres within ﬁne city limits, seventeen buildings,
and a farm of two hundred and fifty acres Valued at $135,000.
He had the further satisfaction of handing over

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College, Indiana; in 189. ’ n Fayette College, Indiana;
and in 1910, received the same degree from the University of Vern
mont. In 1880, he had the honor to be elected a fellow of the
Royal Historical Society of Great .ritain and of the Society of
Antiquaries and Clarendon Societ’ o 00 land. Within the last
few years he has been elected to membership in the National Geo-
graphic Society, American Historical Association, and the American
Academy of Political and mooial Sciences. V; is a member of the
International Congress of , , - ' ', and is a trustee
of the American Civic Alliance. He is also affiliated with Beta
Theta Pi fraternity.

President Ratterson is held in high distinction as a

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lectures have been published in pamphlets. Ten thousand copies

of his report of the proceedings of the International Congress
Geographical Sciences were printed or order of the Legislature
of Kentucky for distribution. Twnetyutwo thousand copies of his
commencement address at the Clemson Agricultural College, of
South Garclina, on June 15, 1911, were ordered published by that
institution. In the year 1905, when he held the position of
president of the Ass iation of Agri mltural Colleges, his adm
dress before the Association on "Eclucation and Empire", and also
r. 1911 at aanover College, Indiana on "The Bible as a Factor in
Yo:ern t’r’ ation" were both varnly coumonueu. Those, with his
the cor ‘fll.\t1'3 ality cf the tail:
one; dnted treciuett Pat

her,;;‘s e,‘ redaction»,

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WI, President
was in early ' - F ' but ’ . the war he has
been in harmony wi h Democratic policies and principles, although
in no sense a pclit c an. True to his forbeare, he is Presbyter-
ian in denominational conviction.

On December 29, 1859, President Patterson was united
in n rriage in Green ille, Kentucky, to Lucelia W. Wing, daughter
or Captain Charles F. and Nancy (Campbell) Wing. Captain Wing
was born in New Bedford, h s . ett , of Quaker parentage, and
was the son of Barnabas \ ng, a rich whaler of New Bedford, who
lost heavily during the war of the Revolution and who came to
Kentucky about the year 1800‘ There is in the possession of Mrs.
Patterson a note executed to him by the Colony of iiassacuusette

fourteen pounds, ten shillings, at 6 percent until
advanced to the co ”’Oﬁﬂraltﬂ, the note rexnaining
mdfather, Col. William

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was himself in that battle. William Campbell’s
niece of General William Russel of Virginia.
eldi‘. .i er became the w e of ion. m1"ard Rupee}, hemoe
James Rumsey, the inventor of the
made 5 ur milee an hour on t*

Potomac in ‘2 r . : d; .QL Washington. James Rumsu ey lied
in London, whith2r ~ r u-“. slﬂ‘eg‘ -', mach innrv, ano hie
models, after his death, Robert Fulton.

To the uni: n of Pre 3ident and Er . - -';733; were born

elder3 William

He dial as the result
1895, and the cutt

ceased to be

Jeanie Rumsey, the second

died August 1, 1870.

Pr.sident Patterson was . . cl'est ,f a Waz.ly cf

cf whom were impressed the clean, honeet,
er; tﬁe aee dedly strong and

he mother. Walter E. Fetter son, the younge

and he and the subject alone survive. Willi
second 20 K and Andrew, the
both being young men of ahil t, ' is . 12'1;--",-.~. attainments.
Alexander the fourth son, ﬂied ‘ ” Walter K, Patteraon waa
from 1880 to 1911, principa of
la is a man of strong characte

tegrity, but he is unmarried.

affreciates the
care? that

 

 Born March 26, 1833, Glasgow, Scotland. Game with his
father's family to America 1842, lived in Southern Indiana 1845—
1856, no school facilities nearer than Madison, Indiana, dietant
forty milee. ttended echool on Madieon, Indiana 1849—1850.
Taught common school from March 1850 until May 1851. Entered
Hanover College 1851, graduated 1856. Led hie cluee during his
under—graduate conree,

Principal Greenville Freebvterial Academy, Muhlenberg
county, Ly., 1856alESQ. Principal Preparatory Department and af—
terward Profeeeor of natin and Greek, Stewart college, now South—
Weetern Heivereity, Clarkeville, Tenn., 1859—1861. Principal
Transylvania High School, Lexinjtcn, Ky., 1881—1865. Profeeeor
of Latin and Civil History, Kentucky Univereity, 1865-186..
Pneelient, Agricultural and Mechanical College 1869, whidi offhze
has held coneecutiv ely from that tune until the greeent. The Agri—
cultural College having been detached from Rentuchv Univereity in
1878, he 1- i gmzyeceful effort to retain it at Lexington, for
which purpoee he obtained from the Sity Council of Lexingto and
the T“meal Court of mavette County $54,003. for the erection of
huildinge on the City Park, which Bed previonelv heen offered by the

Git? council for the retention of the inetitntion. In 1880 car—
ried a measure through the Legielature appropriating a tax of one—
twentieth of a mill for the benefit of the Agricultural college,
thenceforward known ae the R,ate College. In 1882 defeated the
united effort of the denOmilational collegee to induce the ﬁtate
to repeal the tax levied for its benefit two years previous. Ar—

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ghee tie ﬂﬁlstilltiowalitv of the tax before the Legislature and
enhmitted briefs to the Chancellor's court in Louisville and the
3Gu“t of Appeale in its defenee. The conetitutionalitv of the tax

at: “9‘ . 1890, Juuge Holt delivering the

opinion, which he eaid was haeed on the lines of the brief sub—

mitted he him. In 1885 eetabliexed the Agricultural Experiment

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instrumental in procuring the passage by Congreex _, the Watch Act
endowing Experiment Statione with $15,000. A year. Tqually ef~
fioient and eucoeeeful in procuring frOm dongreee the naeeage of
the Norrill Act of 1890, giving €25,000, per annum to each state
in the Union for the further eudOWMent of state inetitucione eq—
tabliehed under the Land Grant of 1862. In 1893 eecured fron the
Legielature the passage of an act giving, beeides tuition fees,
travelling expenees to commty appointeee once coming and once re—
turning during the year. In leooniaon ohtnihed frOn the Legiela~
ture $30,000. for th, erection of a Gymnaeium and $60,000. for the
erection of Patterson Hall for young women. In 1904 obtained from
the R.ate Legislature annual aperpriation of $15,0‘i, per annum
for current expenees and in 1908 took an active part in obtaining
frOm the 3 ate Legislature $20,05’. per annum for adiitional in~
acme and $300,000..for buildings. Took an active part in obtaining
a change of name from State College to State Univeraity by
Legislature of 1908.

His studies were ior ymare mainly concerned with
tive philology, the haeie of which was a more or eee intimate ac~
kueintauce with Latin, Greek, French, German, Gothic, AnglO«3axon
and Sanskrit. He obtained the following degrewe in the veare men—
tioned: M.A. 1859, Ph.0., l875, both from Hanover college.
from xentucky to the International congress of geographical
ace, and to thJ British Association for the idvanﬁenent of Science,
1875. Elected member of the Royal Historical Society of Great

Britain 1879 and to the Society of Antiquariee of Scotland 1880.

Delegate to the British Aeeooiation for the Advancement of Science,

lBﬁO. LL.D. 1898 ﬂnwi Lafayette Gollege Pennevlvania. “en
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houeand copies of the report made to 2L: Eoﬁialature upon his
return ﬁrom the Inte?national congress of Geographical Sciences in

Paris, France, were ordered printed hv the Legielature, for die—

tribution.

 

 Wrote all the editorials on foreign politics which ap—
geared in the Courier-Journal from 1871 to 1875, including the
famous obituary of Napoleon III in 1873.

When abroad in 1875, made the acquaintance of 9i? Jaqu
iiorn IhairyruXLe FHgﬁibietone, rNDIiCT Imnwl of t1ma Treiumxry in t‘va

of Ur. Disraeli, who eat with him in the epeaker'e

Min? and gave him the names of the leadere who per—
ticipuﬁed in the Plimsoll diecueeion of ﬂeet evening. The occasion
”GQWRiNtRQOR Wit? R1? James wee due £0 a letter of introduc—
tion from hie eon, whom he had met in Edinburgh. When in Parie, ho
mede the acquaintance, among other dietinguiehed men, of V. Ferdi—
nand Kauwy, menher of the Inetitute of Wranee and Librarian of tee
Imperial Library under the Sﬁeond Empire. Through H.Maury he had
the honor of an introduction to the : inetitute of
which he wee a member and of a preeen etion to the Preeident. On
hie return if London, he was invited to Spend a week's end at High
Tent, the country eeet of Sir John Lubbock, now Lord Avebumyy
form of Roberde, Luhhock & Company, member of Per-
liament and the moat dietinguiehed archaeologiet of Great Briﬁain.
There he met ¥rcf. John Tyndal, brilliant, vereatile, oompenionable
and Drafound, DP. Synthiewocd, Iing'e printer, the Toremoet mathe—
muthcien of h»e day, and John Richard Green, The historian. Sir
John Lubbock, 7r. oniiiewood and Prof. Tyndai were each Preeidente
of the Uritieh Aeeocintion Tow the Advancement of Science, and
Preeiﬂeqte of the Royal roiwiy, the higheet ecientific Honore he-
etowed in Lin-3 United fiingdom. The meeting With Prof. Tyndal “nir'ight-
ened 131M) COF'I'ESandeyme, which continued 71711311 hi}? death.
But perhaps the meet highly valued of hie foreign friends

and covreeponﬁente wee the late Edward Anguetne Freeman, W.C.L.,

LL.D., Profeneor of Modern Hienory, In the Univerthy of Dxfgrd,

The historian of ihe Normal Conqueet, a magnuu Opue, whoce produc—

tion renders all further efforts to glean on that field emper—

fluoue. For many years letters paeeed between them elmoet monthly,

 

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in which European affairs were dieoueeed with a fTeedox end an
energy not often found in eueh eonreepondenee. when in England in
1891, he was prevented from accepting the hospitality of Dr. Pree-
man at Oxford by the illneee of hie eon in London. Extnaordinary
ability, eeholerehlp, induetry, vigor and oleerneen of‘etyle,
unrivalled acquaintance with the medieeval Chroniclere of the age
of the Norman Conqueet,mede Dr. Freeman the ahleet hietorien end
the meet redouhtehle antagoniet of his day.

ln 1903 he wee Prﬁeﬂ‘ent o? the American Aeeooiation of
Agricultural Collegee and in that oapaeity made the eddrpee in

Waehington upon "Education ami Empine", whieh the oldest membere of

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the Aeeoeietion pronounced the oeet addreee ever delivered hefore
that body. He hen givenithe beet years of hie life, forty yearn,
up-huilding and develonment of the State Hnivereity of Ten—
tuoky. Hie unaided efforte placed it on a good heeie in IRRO, ee-
ouring from the neglelature the impoeition of n tax, the nroeeede
of which were then deemed adequate for ite maintenadoe. In 1881-3
he eaved the Hnivereity from extinction by the united efforte of
the denominational collegee. When the erection of ite 0011838
buildings came to a standstill in 1881, when half completed, “9

Supplied the funds for eeTTYing on the work, taking the rink of

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re—imnureement in the future. Wnen nonfronted with theee eeeail-

ante whoee effowte were directed to eompaee the deetruotion of

the institution, he had unfortunately to guard againe treachery

within hie own faculty, WOme of whoee n mhere aided clandeetinely
the efforte of the HQJTieved \ ..,a . While fighting the nettlee
of the College before the General Aeeemhly, he had the aeeietance
of able men of both partiee in the House and ﬁenate, and won tri—
umphantly in the end. Hie addneeeee, inurovieed and written, on

a variety of subjects, educational, hietorieel, philologieal and
contemporary foreign politioe, would fill eeveral volumes. Perhaps
the most famoue of all these was his reply to Judge William Lind—

eay'e argument before the Joint Connittee of the Houee and Senate

in the General Assembly of 1881—”, in which he aeeailed and Presi-

 

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dent 91131.6)?9011 (lefr—mrled My: 0011531.;iﬁutionality CT the tax lﬁ‘lied

:I‘or the hmzei‘it on" the State Collewi.

 

 James Kennedy Patterson, son of Andrew and
Janet (Kennedy) Patterson, President of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Kentucky, (now University of
Kentucky),(l869 to 1910) was born in Glasgow, Scotland,
March 26, 1833. He is the oldest of a family of six,
namely, five sons and one daughter. In 1842 his parents
emigrated to America and settled on a farm in'BarthclomeW
County, Indiana. Educational facilities were then very
'meager and no Opportunity existed for James to attend
school until 1849, when his father made arrangements
for him to become the pupil of Robert French in Madi-
son, Indiana, and to board in the family of hev. James
ﬁiézga, Pastor of the Associate Reform Church of that

town. In less than a year he became a good scholar in

English and had made a good beginning in Latin and Al-'

gebra. He then taught for a year in the Public Schools

of the State, and in 1851 entered the preparatory de- .
partment of Hanover College, from which he was graduated
in 1856, having led his class from start to finish. In
the Autumn of that year Hon. Edward Rumsey, a retired
lawyer and statesman of western Kentucky, to whom the
Presbytery of Muhlenburg had delegated the charge of

the institution, selected the young graduate as head

of the Presbyterian Academy of Greenville. The school
under his management grew rapidly and was soon recoa—
nized among the best in the State. In 1859 he was ap-

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Stewart College, now Southwestern University,of Clarksville,
Tennessee. In 1860 he was elected Professor of Latin and
Greek. At the outbreak of the Civil War Stewart College
suspended operations and did not reopen until after its
close. In the summer of 1861 Mr. Patterson was offered
and accepted the Principalship of what remained of the

old Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky, an
institution, which, in the earlier history of the State,
rivaled Yale, Harvard and Princeton in reputation and in
attendance, but which for fifteen years or more had stead-
ily declined. In 1861 it ceased to do collegiate work
but its income sufficed for the maintenance of an excel-
lent high school. In 1865 when Transylvania and the old
Kentucky University were consolidated and the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Colleggfggd been provided for un-

der the Act of Congress of 1862 had by Act of the Gen-
eral Assembly been united with the consolidated interest
and made one of its colleges Professor Patterson was
elected to the Chair of History and Metaphysics, and in
1869 was elected President of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College. In 1878 the State dissolved the relation-
ship and placed its college,of which Professor Patterson
was reelected President, upon an independent basis. It

was henceforth known as the State College of Kentucky,

and in 1908 when it became, by Act of the Legislature,

The University of Kentucky, it comprised the College
of Arts and Science, The College of Mechanical Engineering,

The College of Civil Engineering, The College of Mines,

 

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The College of Law, The College of Agriculture and the

College of Education. In 1880 the Legislature gave it
the proceeds of a tax of one half cent on each $100 of
taxable property. In 1887 the Federal Government estab-
lished and endowed the Experiment Station in connection
with the College of Agriculture. Both the University and
the Station have received additional grants from the
Government and from the State. Its income though rela-
tively small as compared with those of some other States
of the Union is now much larger than that of the aggre-
gate income of all the other institutions of higher learn-
ing in the Commonwealth. For this result the institution
is largely indebted to the unwearied activity of its Pres-
ident. He obtained the one half cent tax from the Legis-
lature in 1880, xx defended it when assailed by the de-
nominational colleges in 1882, maintained its constitu-
tionality against the best legal talent in the State,
rendered material aid in the passg?;cngtﬁe9£o%¥flland ng the
Congress of 1890 and secured additional endowments from
the Legislature of 1904 and 1908. He had the satisfaction of
handing over to his successor, when he resigned in 1910, an
income which had grown from $10,000 per annum in 1869 to
$180,000 per annum in 1910, and grounds and buildings and
equipment which had grown from absolutely nothing to an
estimated value of $930,000.

In June 1909 appropriate exercises commennrating
the fortieth anniversary of his Presidency of the State

University were held-a longer period of consecutive ser-

 

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vice in that capacity than/any of his contemporaries. In
January 1910 he resigned the Presidency and retired from
active service as President Emeritus, upon conditions
honorable and generous. Upon his retirement he was appointed
by Governor Willson a Trustee of the University and reap-
pointed by Governor Stanley in 1916.