Burd Shippen Patterson

Background

Patterson, Burd Shippen was born on June 21, 1857 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph S. and Sarah Elizabeth (Weaver) Patterson.

Education

Graduate Pottsville High School, 1873.

Career

Admitted to Schuylkill Company bar, 1878. Editor The Sentinel, 1881-1882. Secretary Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Board of Trade, 1889-1891.

President Schuylkill Electric Railway, 1890-1891.

Editor and chief proprietor Miners Journal, Pottsville, 1890-1891. Secretary Pennsylvania Anti-Quay Association, 1892-1893.

Editor Pittsburgh Times, 1893-1904, Pittsburgh Post, 1904-1908. Secretary statistics committee of Provisional Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal communications of Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, 1895, and of Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company, 1905-1916.

Secretary Lake Erie & Ohio River Ship Canal Association, December since 1910.

Secretary Lake Erie and Ohio River Canal Board, October 26, since 1915. Secretary Civ. Service communications of Pittsburgh, May 12, 1909-1914. Secretary Garfield Republican Committee Schuylkill Company, 1881-1882.

Secretary Independent Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania, 1882.

President Central Republican Club, Pottsville, 1890-1891. Delegate Union Party State conversations, 1901, 02, and Lincoln Party State Convention, 1906.

Secretary Union Party Committee, Allegheny Company, 1901-1903, Lincoln Party Committee, Allegheny Company, 1905-1906. Suggested and was secretary Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of Pittsburgh, 1908.

Member Pittsburgh Civic Commission, 1908-1911.

Secretary History Society of Western Pennsylvania, May since 1909. Secretary Committee on Celebration of the Beginning of Steam Navigation on the Western Rivers, Pittsburgh, October 30-November 1, 1911. Author of first playground law, passed by Pennsylvania legislature, 1895.

Secretary business men’s advisory committee of Pittsburgh Playground Association, since 1909.

Assistant secretary Allegheny Company Committee Public Safety, 1917-1918. President Ohio Valley History Association, 1916-1917 (vice president 1914-1916).

Secretary Mississippi to Atlantic Internal Waterways Committee, since 1919.

Achievements

• Burd Shippen Patterson has been listed as a noteworthy editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Pittsburgh Civil Service Commission, since 1923.

Connections

Married Anna Marie McLeod, June 11, 1884 (died 1898).

Father:

Joseph South. Patterson

Mother:

Sarah Elizabeth (Weaver) Patterson

Spouse:

Anna Marie McLeod