A Memoir of the REV. Legh Richmond... Abridged by the REV. William Patton
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William Patton was an American clergyman and author.
Background
William Patton was born on August 23, 1798 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the third son of Colonel Robert Patton, who was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and had come to America when a young man. He had served under Lafayette in the American Revolution, and for more than twenty years, until his death in 1814, was postmaster of Philadelphia. William's mother was Cornelia (Bridges) Patton, who traced her ancestry to the Culpeper and Fairfax families of Virginia and England. She died when William was eight years old.
Education
William Patton united at the age of eighteen with the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, his native city, graduated at Middlebury College in 1818, and studied several months in Princeton Theological Seminary (1819 - 1820).
Career
After being ordained to the ministry in 1820 by the Congregational Association of Vermont, William Patton removed to New York City, the home of his wife. Impelled by a missionary spirit, he gathered together the members who constituted his first church, the Central Presbyterian, and served it several years without salary. His pulpit and business ability led to his being called in 1833 to the secretaryship of the Central American Education Society. During the next four years he recruited the ministry and raised money for educational purposes, but in 1837 returned to the pastorate. Apparently the first to propose that a Presbyterian theological seminary be established in New York City, Patton in 1836 became one of the four ministerial founders of Union Seminary, and served as a director from the beginning until 1849, and as instructor or "professor extraordinary" for three years.
His last pastorate, begun in 1848, was at Hammond Street Congregational Church, New York, a new enterprise initiated by some of his close friends. Financial difficulties compelled the organization, in spite of increasing membership, to surrender its property in 1852. During the remaining twenty-seven years of his life his home was in or near New Haven, Connecticut, and his time was devoted largely to supplying pulpits and to the literary work begun early in his career. In 1834 he had recast a British commentary, Thomas Williams' Cottage Bible and Family Expositor, making it substantially a new work. More than 170, 000 copies of it were sold in America.
In collaboration with Thomas Hastings, he published The Christian Psalmist (1839), a hymn book which for a time had a wide circulation, and he prepared British editions of Edwards on Revivals (1839) and of C. G. Finney's Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835).
Between 1825 and 1879 William Patton made fourteen voyages to Europe, partly on account of his health, which until middle age was precarious. Ambitious to inform Britain of the true spirit of America, in 1861 he wrote articles for English dailies explaining the anti-slavery background of the Civil War, and published in London a pamphlet, The American Crisis; or, The True Issue, Slavery or Liberty. In England, as in the United States, he constantly attacked slavery and the alcoholic traffic. He proposed and attended the meeting at London in 1846 which organized the Evangelical Alliance for promoting Christian union and religious liberty throughout the world.
From 1830 to 1870 he was a member of the executive committee of the American Home Missionary Society, and at his death, in New Haven, he left legacies to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, to the American Missionary Association in Aid of the Freedmen, and to Howard University, whose president was his son, Reverend William Weston Patton. William Patton died on September 9, 1879.
William Patton was a member of Presbyterian church.
Connections
In 1819 William Patton married Mary Weston. Of his ten children, five died early, the survivors being two sons and three daughters. The mother of them all was Mary (Weston) Patton, who died in 1857. In 1860 Patton married Mrs. Mary (Shaw) Bird of Philadelphia, whose death occurred in 1863. His third wife, whom he married in 1864, was Mrs. Emily (Trowbridge) Hayes.