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ROBERT PATTERSON, SR., son of the above, was born not far from where the battles of Stillwater were fought four years later. He entered the Cannonsburg Academy at its commencement in 1790, reciting the first lesson under the shade of some trees, no building having yet been obtained. In 1794 he entered the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, where his uncle, Robert Patterson, was the professor of mathematics. He graduated there in 1796, and remained as a tutor four years longer, at the same time studying theology. He was licensed in 1801, and August 27, 1801, was married to Jane Canon, daughter of Col. John Canon, the founder of Cannonsburg. Mr. Patterson was pastor of two churches near Erie, Pa., for six years; in 1807 removed to Pittsburgh, and took charge of the Pittsburgh Academy (now the Western University of Pennsylvania) until 1810. From that date until 1836 he was engaged in bookselling, and part of the time in publishing and in the manufacture of paper. He also supplied the pulpit of Hiland Church, seven miles north of Pittsburgh, from 1807 to 1833. In 1840 he removed to the country, about three miles south of Pittsburgh, where he died September 5, 1854. Mrs. Patterson died in 1856.