Background
Patterson, Robert Mayne was born on July 17, 1832 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Margaret (Mayne) Patterson.
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Robert Mayne Patterson
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Graduate Philadelphia High School, 1849. Official reporter United States Senate, 1850-1855. Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1859.
(Doctor of Divinity, Princeton, 1879.
Doctor of Laws, Lafayette, 1887).
Career
Review James Nourse, of Washington, 1861 (died 1863). Married second, Rebecca Thomas, daughter Joseph Malin, of Chester Valley, Pennsylvania, 1867.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1859.
Pastor Great Valley, Pennsylvania, 1859-1867, South Church, Philadelphia, 1867-1880, Great Valley, 1881, pastor emeritus, since 1906. associate editor The Presbyterian, 1870-1880. Editor Presbyterian Journal, 1880-1893.
Moderator, Synod of Pennsylvania, 1890. Member 13 General Assemblies Presbyterian Church and 7 of their special commissions.
Author of measures consolidating synods and enlarging their power, 1880, and of the Inerrancy Deliverance of 1892.
Member Pan-Presbyterian councils, London, 1875, Philadelphia, 1880, Belfast, 1884. Author: Skeptic Reclaimed, 1888. Isaiah and the Higher Critics, 1889.
William Blackwood, 1894.
American Presbyterianism, 1896. The Angels and Their Ministrations, 1900.
Short Method with Skeptics, 1900. Editor: The Second General Council of the Presbyterian Alliance.
Witherow’s Which Is the Apostolic Church.
Address: Malvern, Pennsylvania
Achievements
Membership
Member 13 General Assemblies Presbyterian Church and 7 of their special commissions. Member Pan-Presbyterian councils, London, 1875, Philadelphia, 1880, Belfast, 1884.
Connections
Married Margaret Baxter McClay, daughter Married second, Rebecca Thomas, daughter
