Background
Paterson, Robert was born on November 17, 1885 in Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States. Son of Robert and (Anne) Virginia (Sharpe) Paterson.
Paterson, Robert was born on November 17, 1885 in Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States. Son of Robert and (Anne) Virginia (Sharpe) Paterson.
Educated Charlotte Hall (Doctor of Medicine) Military Academy, 1901-1902, Maplewood Classical School, Kokomo, Indiana, 1903-1904, Ohio State University, 1905-1906, 1908.
Reporter Wilmington (Delaware) Morning News, later Oklahoma City Oklahoman, 1909-1910. Sports editor, legislative correspondent, city editor Fargo (North Dakota) Forum, 1910-1914. Editor Atlanta (Georgia) branch Western Newspaper Union, 1914-1915.
War correspondent for several newspapers, 1915.
Young Men's Christian Association lecturer with American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1918. Research editor Searchlight Library Public Company, New York, 1919.
Assistant to editor Current Opinion, 1919-1922. Associate editor McClure Newspaper Syndicate, and supervisory editor Wheeler Syndicate, subsidiary, 1922-1926.
Legislative correspondent New York Herald-Tribune, 1926-1927.
Assistant to Bernarr Macfadden, 1935-1936, 1937. Lecturer since 1936; editor Our State, Newark, 1939-1940. Staff editor Industrial Bulletin, New York, 1948, Home Work and Unemployment Insurance divisions, New York Department Labor, 1949-1955.
Manager special edit
Irish Echo, New York, 1955. Director Public Housing Education, New Jersey Council of Housing Authorities, Newark, 1939-1941.
Director Veterans division, C.D.V.O., 1943. Director public relations, Civilian Defense Volunteer Organisation, 1944.
Executive director National Majority (all New York), 1945-1946.
Chairman National Committee for Statehood for Prize ring (The), Incorporated., 1950. Vice chairman board managers Army Young Men's Christian Association, Fort Jay, Governor's Island, New York, 1925-1931. Member Mayor’s Committee to Welcome Distinguished Guests, New York, 1928-1933.
Member Mayor’s Committee to Welcome Distinguished Guests, New York, 1928-1933. Member Vivisection Investigation League. Served as private Tank Corps, United States Army, 1918.
Member American Legion (commander New York County, 1923-1925), Sons of the American Revolution Republican.
Mason.; Club: Lambs (New York).
Married Eleanor de Bevoise Tunison, October 27, 1926 (divorced October 1940).