Background
PATTERSON, Richard Cunningham was born on January 31, 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Son of Richard Cunningham and Martha Belle (Neiswanger) Patterson.
PATTERSON, Richard Cunningham was born on January 31, 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Son of Richard Cunningham and Martha Belle (Neiswanger) Patterson.
University of Nebraska. Columbia School of Mines, E.M., 1912.
Engineer, I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. President, Peacock Motion Picture Corporation Director, Lawrence Operating Company, Patterson Land Company, Bowling Green Rock Asphalt Company, China Society of American Served as Colonel, World War. Administrative Officer American Committee to Negotiate Peace in Paris.
Awarded: Royal Order of White Eagle with Swords (Serbian Government). Medal of Solidarity (Republic of Panama). Alternate Delegate., Democrat Convention, Houston, 1928.
Commissioner of Correction, N.Y.C.
Member: Intercollegiate Swimming Association. Society of Military Intelligence Reserve Officers (President). Pilgrims; Masons; Society of Colonel War.
Clubs: Bankers, Down Town, Piping Rock, University, National. Democrat; Columbia University, Explorers, Circumnavigators.
Spouse Shelley McCutchen Rodes, May 1924, Bowling Green, Kentucky.