Robert Wilson Patterson
Robert Wilson Patterson (1850–1910) was an American newspaper editor and publisher. He was born in Chicago, attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, and graduated from Williams College in 1871, and then began the study of law. After the great fire in Chicago he became a reporter on the Times, later joined the staff of the Interior, and in 1873 became connected with the Chicago Tribune, of which he was successively assistant night editor, Washington correspondent, editorial writer, managing editor, and editor in chief. He was also president of the Chicago Tribune Company.
Patterson lived in the Patterson Mansion, a Neoclassical 30-room home on Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., where he entertained many prominent people of the day.[1]
Family tree
| Joseph Medill (1823–1899) | William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert Wilson Patterson (1850-1910) | Elinor Medill (1853–1933) | Katherine van Etta Medill (1853–1932) | Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946) | Eleanor Josephine Medill Patterson (1884–1948) | Joseph Medill McCormick (1877–1925) | Ruth Hanna (1880–1944) | Robert Rutherford McCormick (1880–1955) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alicia Patterson (1906–1963) | Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890–1971) | Josephine Medill Patterson (1913-1996) | Ivan Albright (1897–1983) | James Joseph Patterson (1923–1992) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joseph Medill Patterson Albright (born 1935) | Madeleine Korbel (born 1937) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.