Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-11
Biographical Sketches the State
0mcers Elect.
GOV. PArrIsos.

Robert Emory PAttison, who will be insu-
gurated governor OF Peunsylvania on Janu-
airy 16, 1888, for the term of four year,, will
not be ihirty-two years of age until the Sth
of next December, having been born in 1850,
at Quantico, a village near Snow Hill, in
Somerset county, Nd. His father, the Rev.
Robert 81. PattIson, who died seven years
| ago, was a popular Methods. minister, who
graduated from Dickinson College in the
same class with the Rev. DR.. o. ii. Tiffiny,
now pastor of The Arch street Methodist
Episcopal church. The family went 10
Philadelphia when the candidate Tor gov
ernor was six years of age, bis father taking
charge of Asbury Methodist Episcopal
church, Chestnut street, west OF Twenty-third.
Young Roberts early educational training
in the public schools was frequently and dis
agreeably interrupted by the yearly change
of residence that bis father, as a Methodist
minister, was obliged 10 make. From the
Penn grammar school, at Mary and Master
| streets, he was admitted to the high school,
from which he graduated after a four
years course, delivering the valedictory at the
commencement. His first appearance in
the political field was in 1875, when his
friends tried 10 have MIN nominated for
clerk of the Quarter Sessions, but Henry S.
Hagert was chosen. In August 1877, three
months before his first election COMP
troller, his name was before The Democratic
Stale Convention Tor the auditor generalship.
On the first ballot Mr.. Pattison stood next to
William p. Schell, but the latter was NOM
mated on the second by large majority
A month or 80 after this, when Mr.. Pattison's
legal preceptOr met him at the corner of
Sixth and Chestnut streets aud suggested
that he ought to be a Candidate for comp
troller, MIR. Pattison said he thought he had
enough of politics. He was prevailed upon
to run, however, and his opportunity was a
good one, for the notorious administration
OF Comptroller Hancock, whom a Judge on
the bench characterized az "Cerberus g3rged
to moral blindness" had given impetus to
the political tidal wave that carried into
office Democratic district attorney, comp
trOller and coroner, in face of q majority in
the city OF from 5000 to 5000 for auditor
general, State treasurer aud supreme judge.
Mr.. Pdttison began performing the duties
OF comptroller on January /, 1878. The
ability and fidelity that proved too much for
the coufederated jobbers at the end of his
first term are we'll known to everybody, as
they led 10 his triumphant reelection by
over $4,000 majority, in a contest in which
Garfield carried the city by over 10000 ma
majority.
Mr.. Pattison lives in modest style at 3247
SAMSON street. During the summer he has
his family in an Atlantic City cottage. In
person he is tall, broad shou sdered and wiry,
straight as an Indian, dark-featured, keen of
eye, determined of look and generally hand
some-just the man in physical appearance
to win favor on the stump at frat sight.
LIEUT.-Gov. BLACK.
Chsuucey +. Black, who will be inaugu
rated lieuteuent-governor of the State of
Pennsylvania on Tuesday, January %, 1888,
for the Term OF four years, is a son of Judge
Jeremiah S. Black, and in appearance bears
a marked resemblance to his distinguished
father. He was born in 1889 at Somerset,
Pa, and was educated at the Monongahela
Academy in West Virginia, and at Jefferson
and Washington College, Pennsylvania. He
also attended Hiram College, Ohio, for a
short period, forming an acquaintance there
with Garfield, which was maintained till the
death OF tine latter. Young Black studied
law with his father, and was admitted to the
Somerset bar, but as his tastes were more lit
erary Than legal he has devoted the most OF
his time to writing for various leading news
papers upon political subjects, being for the
last six or seven years regular coutribu or
10 the columns of tie New York Sun He
has never held any public position, although
an sctive political leader. He has been for
years past the author of the platforms gen.
orally adopted by the Democratic State con-
veDtIons, always attending the convention
with his pocket full of ready-made declsra-
tions of political faith. He has become
quite prominent of late as the founder of the
Jeffersonian revival, which consists in the
organization OF societies for the study and
practice of Jef1ersonisn principles His
present residence is at York, where his dis
tingushed father also resides