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PATTERSON OF OQUAWKA SPECTATOR DEAD
Harry M. Patterson, former editor of the Oquawka Spectator and recognized as one of the prominent botanists of the United States, died at the Burlington Hospital May 22nd following a brief illness. Mr. Patterson had devoted a lifetime to the study of botany and was at one time tendered the position of first assistant botanist of the division of the Dept. of Agriculture of the United States. He refused the position because of a disinclination to leave his home town. He was born in Oquawka in 1853 and spent his whole life in that village. He is survived by his wife, who was formerly Miss Florence Beaty and by one brother, Norman Patterson of Chicago.
Stronghurst Graphic, May 29, 1919
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Find A Grave contributor, Lilbuddy has made the following suggested edits:
Suggested edit: From swcoloradowildflowers.com website
Harry took over the Oquawka Spectator which he and his wife, Florence, published after his father, Edward (or Edwin) H. N. Patterson moved to Denver, Colorado in 1875. (Patterson, the elder, was well known. He and Eugene Field were associates of Edgar Allen Poe and had attempted to have Poe move to Oquawka. Patterson also corresponded with Poe about financing Poe's longed-for literary magazine, the "Stylus", but Poe died of alcohol poisoning before the two could work out the publishing details.)
H. N. Patterson was a correspondent with prominent American botanists of the time and he printed botanical labels for many collectors. His botanical collections are housed in a number of herbaria around the United States.
In 1874 Patterson wrote A List of plants collected in the vicinity of Oquawka, Henderson County, Ills. Of this list Patterson said, "709 species are enumerated (not including mosses), and of these I have found 654 within three miles of Oquawka." In 1892 Patterson published "Patterson's Numbered Check-list of North American Plants North of Mexico".
Asa Gray named Astragalus pattersonii from a specimen "collected by Mr. H. N. Patterson [in 1876?]... in the foothills of Gore Mountains, Colorado". (Asa Gray's words as quoted in "T. S. Brandegee's 1876 "The Flora of Southwestern Colorado", part of the Hayden Survey Report.) Astragalus pattersonii, Draba fladnizensis variety pattersonii
Contributor: Lilbuddy (47845606)
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PATTERSON OF OQUAWKA SPECTATOR DEAD
Harry M. Patterson, former editor of the Oquawka Spectator and recognized as one of the prominent botanists of the United States, died at the Burlington Hospital May 22nd following a brief illness. Mr. Patterson had devoted a lifetime to the study of botany and was at one time tendered the position of first assistant botanist of the division of the Dept. of Agriculture of the United States. He refused the position because of a disinclination to leave his home town. He was born in Oquawka in 1853 and spent his whole life in that village. He is survived by his wife, who was formerly Miss Florence Beaty and by one brother, Norman Patterson of Chicago.
Stronghurst Graphic, May 29, 1919
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Bio information above courtesy of
Find A Grave contributor No Reins
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Find A Grave contributor, Lilbuddy has made the following suggested edits:
Suggested edit: From swcoloradowildflowers.com website
Harry took over the Oquawka Spectator which he and his wife, Florence, published after his father, Edward (or Edwin) H. N. Patterson moved to Denver, Colorado in 1875. (Patterson, the elder, was well known. He and Eugene Field were associates of Edgar Allen Poe and had attempted to have Poe move to Oquawka. Patterson also corresponded with Poe about financing Poe's longed-for literary magazine, the "Stylus", but Poe died of alcohol poisoning before the two could work out the publishing details.)
H. N. Patterson was a correspondent with prominent American botanists of the time and he printed botanical labels for many collectors. His botanical collections are housed in a number of herbaria around the United States.
In 1874 Patterson wrote A List of plants collected in the vicinity of Oquawka, Henderson County, Ills. Of this list Patterson said, "709 species are enumerated (not including mosses), and of these I have found 654 within three miles of Oquawka." In 1892 Patterson published "Patterson's Numbered Check-list of North American Plants North of Mexico".
Asa Gray named Astragalus pattersonii from a specimen "collected by Mr. H. N. Patterson [in 1876?]... in the foothills of Gore Mountains, Colorado". (Asa Gray's words as quoted in "T. S. Brandegee's 1876 "The Flora of Southwestern Colorado", part of the Hayden Survey Report.) Astragalus pattersonii, Draba fladnizensis variety pattersonii
Contributor: Lilbuddy (47845606)
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PATTERSON OF OQUAWKA SPECTATOR DEAD
Harry M. Patterson, former editor of the Oquawka Spectator and recognized as one of the prominent botanists of the United States, died at the Burlington Hospital May 22nd following a brief illness. Mr. Patterson had devoted a lifetime to the study of botany and was at one time tendered the position of first assistant botanist of the division of the Dept. of Agriculture of the United States. He refused the position because of a disinclination to leave his home town. He was born in Oquawka in 1853 and spent his whole life in that village. He is survived by his wife, who was formerly Miss Florence Beaty and by one brother, Norman Patterson of Chicago.
Stronghurst Graphic, May 29, 1919
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Bio information above courtesy of
Find A Grave contributor No Reins
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Find A Grave contributor, Lilbuddy has made the following suggested edits:
Suggested edit: From swcoloradowildflowers.com website
Harry took over the Oquawka Spectator which he and his wife, Florence, published after his father, Edward (or Edwin) H. N. Patterson moved to Denver, Colorado in 1875. (Patterson, the elder, was well known. He and Eugene Field were associates of Edgar Allen Poe and had attempted to have Poe move to Oquawka. Patterson also corresponded with Poe about financing Poe's longed-for literary magazine, the "Stylus", but Poe died of alcohol poisoning before the two could work out the publishing details.)
H. N. Patterson was a correspondent with prominent American botanists of the time and he printed botanical labels for many collectors. His botanical collections are housed in a number of herbaria around the United States.
In 1874 Patterson wrote A List of plants collected in the vicinity of Oquawka, Henderson County, Ills. Of this list Patterson said, "709 species are enumerated (not including mosses), and of these I have found 654 within three miles of Oquawka." In 1892 Patterson published "Patterson's Numbered Check-list of North American Plants North of Mexico".
Asa Gray named Astragalus pattersonii from a specimen "collected by Mr. H. N. Patterson [in 1876?]... in the foothills of Gore Mountains, Colorado". (Asa Gray's words as quoted in "T. S. Brandegee's 1876 "The Flora of Southwestern Colorado", part of the Hayden Survey Report.) Astragalus pattersonii, Draba fladnizensis variety pattersonii
Contributor: Lilbuddy (47845606)
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PATTERSON OF OQUAWKA SPECTATOR DEAD
Harry M. Patterson, former editor of the Oquawka Spectator and recognized as one of the prominent botanists of the United States, died at the Burlington Hospital May 22nd following a brief illness. Mr. Patterson had devoted a lifetime to the study of botany and was at one time tendered the position of first assistant botanist of the division of the Dept. of Agriculture of the United States. He refused the position because of a disinclination to leave his home town. He was born in Oquawka in 1853 and spent his whole life in that village. He is survived by his wife, who was formerly Miss Florence Beaty and by one brother, Norman Patterson of Chicago.
Stronghurst Graphic, May 29, 1919
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Bio information above courtesy of
Find A Grave contributor No Reins
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Find A Grave contributor, Lilbuddy has made the following suggested edits:
Suggested edit: From swcoloradowildflowers.com website
Harry took over the Oquawka Spectator which he and his wife, Florence, published after his father, Edward (or Edwin) H. N. Patterson moved to Denver, Colorado in 1875. (Patterson, the elder, was well known. He and Eugene Field were associates of Edgar Allen Poe and had attempted to have Poe move to Oquawka. Patterson also corresponded with Poe about financing Poe's longed-for literary magazine, the "Stylus", but Poe died of alcohol poisoning before the two could work out the publishing details.)
H. N. Patterson was a correspondent with prominent American botanists of the time and he printed botanical labels for many collectors. His botanical collections are housed in a number of herbaria around the United States.
In 1874 Patterson wrote A List of plants collected in the vicinity of Oquawka, Henderson County, Ills. Of this list Patterson said, "709 species are enumerated (not including mosses), and of these I have found 654 within three miles of Oquawka." In 1892 Patterson published "Patterson's Numbered Check-list of North American Plants North of Mexico".
Asa Gray named Astragalus pattersonii from a specimen "collected by Mr. H. N. Patterson [in 1876?]... in the foothills of Gore Mountains, Colorado". (Asa Gray's words as quoted in "T. S. Brandegee's 1876 "The Flora of Southwestern Colorado", part of the Hayden Survey Report.) Astragalus pattersonii, Draba fladnizensis variety pattersonii
Contributor: Lilbuddy (47845606)
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