The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-01
ROBERT EMORY PATTIsON,
TIL. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR COVER
NOR OF FPENNsYLvANIA-HIs TITLE
TO TIE PEOPLES FAVOR.

There Is a current saying that of man it
is asked in Boston, what does he know? In
New York, what is he worth a? in Philadel-
phia, who was his father? The personal
character and official worth Of our candidate
alike invite inspection by any one or al of
these tests.
ROBERT EMORY PATTIsoN, the only Dem
ooratic candidate for Governor in PennsyIva-
MIA, and the one who proposes, when ''choseE
for the Office by the people, to perform its
duties to their satisfaction, !" was born on the
sth dav Of December, 4. D. 1850. at Quanti-
co. Somerset county. Nd. For the place of his
birth there is no apology needed further than
that he had to be born somewhere, - as An
drew Jackson, Of Tennessee, said of himself,
in answer to the taunt that Waxhaw, North
Carolina was his own humble birth place,
itself in name, like Pattison's, suggestive Of
aboriginal origin. Indian names are numer-
GUS on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, which
has also been called by recent writer in
H1rDers' magazine, GA Peninsula Canaan :"
"a land of rivers of waters" One of these
gives name to the new county Of Wicomico,
set of from Somerset a few years ago, In
which IS located the little town Of Quantico.
That was the first place to which the late
Rev Robert II. Pattison, .. D.. for many
years grand chaplain Of the grand lodge of
Masons in Pennsylvania, was appointed, af-
ter his marriage with Miss Catharine Wool
ford. Of Cambridge. by the presiding Bishop
Of the Philadelphia NJ. f. Conference, which
at that time included the peninsula within
its bounds A short time thereafter the
fathers appointment was to Odessa, Della
ware. and next to Philadelphia when the
first born son was but six years old.
HIS EDUCATION.
Robert was at once started to school. and
enterin" the primary, passed during the
| years following through the successive grades
of the common schools, the glory of our
commonwealth, on up to and through the
Penn grammar and central high school
Here young PattisOn made his first speech,
beiEo ca He'd upon to deliver the valedictory
address, and graduating with the highest
honors Of the fiftv-hfth class. In this way
he became known to Lewis 9. Cassidy. Esq,
then Il member Of the board Of education. in
whose Office lie registered rs a 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 hon
& Ored presidents Of that institution. Robert
/ Emory was a native Of Philadelphia, after
ward a law student of Reverdy johnson, in
/ Baltimore, and in the end a divine of great
learning and mastery in manhood. Such a
man, too, was the senior PattisOn, one whose
l knightly appearance and chivalric bearing
. cOexisted with great kindness of manner,
that made him friends in all classes of sOcie-
ty, and caused him to be mourned in death
which came to him in 1875-wherever his
personal and social worth were known. His
solieitude for the future of his only son may
. be hest expressed in words written yJames
Mill to Jeremy Bentham, with reference to
I his son, John Stuart Mil: However, if ]
I We're to die any time before this poor boy is a
man, one of the things which would pinch
me most sovely would be the being Obliged
to leave his mind uumade to the degree OF
. excellence [ hone for "