Lamar Gray Patterson

Background

Patterson, Lamar Gray was born on September 19, 1865 in in Prince George Company, Maryland, United States. Son of Thomas Leiper and Louisa (Sprigg) Patterson.

Education

Graduate University of Virginia, 1885. Special studies in chemistry.

Career

In practice as chemist since 1885, first in private laboratory, Cumberland, Maryland. Chemist Mississippi Experiment Station, 1888, Washington Carbon Company, Pennsylvania, 1894. Metallurgist Aetna Standard Iron and Steel Company, 1898.

Chemist Alabama Steel and Ship Building Company, 1899, Virginia State Fertilizing Company, since 1900.

Formerly superintendent Lynchburg (Virginia) branch, superintendent Montgomery (Alabama) branch, December, since 1911, Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company.

Achievements

• Lamar Gray Patterson has been listed as a noteworthy chemistry by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow London Chemical Society. Member American Philosophical Society.

Connections

Married Mary T. Humphreys, of Columbus, Mississippi, September 14, 1892.

Father:

Thomas Leiper Patterson

Mother:

Louisa (Sprigg) Patterson

Spouse:

Mary T. Humphreys