The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-09-01
ROBERT EMORY PATTISON,
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
OF PENNSYLVANIA.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
There is current saying that of a
man it is asked in Boston, what does
he know? in New York, what is he
worth? in Philadelphia, who was his
father! The personal character and
official worth of our candidate alike ia
vite inspection by any one or all of
these tests
ROBERT EMORY PArusoN, the only
Democratic candidate for gov, ,rnor in
Pennsylvania, and the one who proposes,
when "chosen for the Office by the peo-
pie, to perform its duties to their sat..
faction was born on the Sth day of
December A. ID. 1850, at Quantico,
Somerset county, Md. For the place
of his birth there is no apology needed
further than that he mad to be born
somewhere" as Andrew Jackson. of
Tennessee, said Of himself, in answer to
a taunt that Waxhaw, North Carolina,
was his own humble birth place, itself
in name, like Pattison's, suggestive of
aboriginal origin. Indian names are
numerous on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland, which has also been called
by recent writer in Hupers Noga-
zjne, "a Peninsula Canaan" "a land
of rivers of waters" One of these gives
name to the new county of Wicomico,
set off from Somerset few years ago.
| in which is located the little town of
Quantico.
That was the first place to which the
late Rev. Robert H. Pattison, d. d.,
for many years grand chaplain of the
lodge of Masons in Pennsylvania, was
appointed, after his marriage with Miss
Catharine Woolford, of Cambridge. by
the presiding bishop of the Philadel-
phia Nj. E. conference, which at that
time included the peninsula within its
bounds a short time thereafter the
fathers appointment was to Odessa,
Delaware, and next to Philadelphia
when the first born son was but six
years old.
HIS EDUCATION.
and, entering the primary, passed dur
ing the years following through the
successive grades of the common schools,
the glory of our commonwealth, ON up
to and through the Penn grammar aud
central high school. Here young Pat
tison made his first speech, being called
upon to deliver the valcdictory address,
aud graduating with the highest honors
of the fifty fifth class. In this way he
became known to Lewis c. Cassidy,
esq, then member of the board Of
education, in whose office he registered
rs law student in December, 1869,
with the recommendation Of Professor
George Inman Richie, the high school
principal.
The elder Pattison had intended his
son should graduate also at Dickinson
college, where he himself had been
educated, having named him in honor
of one of the most honorCd presidents
of that institution. Robert Emory was
native of Philadelphia, afterward a
law student of Reverdy johnson, in
Baltimore, and in the end a divine Of
great learning and mastery in manhood
Such man, too, was the senior Patti
son, one whose knightly appearance
and chivalric bearing coeXisted with
great kindness of manner, that made
him friends in all classes Of society, and
causel him to be mourned in death
which came to him in wherever
his personal and social worth were
known, His solicitude for the lutare
of his only son may be best expressed
in words written by janis Mill to
Jeremy Bentham, with reference to his
son, John Stuart Mill; 'IIowever if |
were to die anytime before this poor
boy is man, one of the things which
would pinch me most sorcly would be
the being obliged to leave his mind un,
made to the degree of excellence hope
for.