Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-29
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How Robert Emory Fati;sun i'll Few lsi.rS
Has Risen &. Fame

How Robert Emory l',tiison III Few is.rs
Has Risen &. Fame.
Only four and :.-half years have elapsed
since the man who was nominated yestcr-
day to govern more than four millions of
people, and who was then only twenty
seven years of age, left q small law prac-
tice to become controller of the city of
Philadelphia, having been elected by 4
majority Of 1862 votes over James W.
Sayre. Before then be was unknown to
the public. Three years later the novelty
Of having 4 controller who really con-
trOlIed and who stood sternIy ard immov-
able between the public jnbber and the
Pattison sn popular in Philadelphia that
in all the PARTISAN excitement CT the presi-
Dental election, which resulted IN Il ma
,jority tbele OF go, SS} for Garfield, and of
21, 7SG for William f. Littleton, Republi-
can candidate ior clerk of tho quarter
sessions, the Democratic candidate for
controller was re elected by "93 4G1 votes,
or majority OF Is, J93 over one Of Phila-
delphia's most esteemed citizens and sue
cessiul merchants E. Harper Jellries,
whom the combined ring managers had
prevailed upon to sacrifice himself, after
they had forced off the ticket an equally
estimable candidatc-,Iocl Cook.
Mr.. Pattison will not be tbirty-two
years of age until the Ssh of next Deem
Der, having been born liz 1885, at Quanti-
co, a village near Snow Hill, in Somerset
county, Maryland. His father, the Rev.
Robert II. Pattison, who died seven years
ago, was a popular Methodist minister,
who graduated from Dickinson college in
the same class with the Rev. DR.. o. III.
Tiffany, now pastor of the Arch street NJ.
Z. church. The family went TO PhiIadel-
phia when the candidate for governor was
six years of age, his father taking charge
of Asbury NJ. Z. church, Chestnut street,
west of Thirty third. Ioung Robert';
early educational training i'll the public
schools was frequently and disagreeab!y
interrupted by the yearly change Of resi-
dence that his father, rs q Methodist min.
lister, was obliged to make. From the
Penn grammar school, at Mary and Master
streets, he was admitted to the high
school, from which lie graduated after
four years course, delivering the va'edie-
tory at the commencement. At that
time Lewis G. Cassidy was member of
tho board Of education and happened to
he on the lookout for q bright youth to
study law in his Office. Like many other
business and professional men. before ard
since. who had such a need, Mr.. Cassidy
told Prof. George Inman Richie, principal
of the high school, the kind of young man
he wanted, and Mr.. Richie unhes;tatingly
recommended "Bob" Pattson. The
youth was then preparing to enter Dick
inson college and study for the ministry,
but he accepted Mr.. Cassidy's offer and
studied diligently under him until 1872,
when he was admitted to tie bar.
Meanwhile, as member of the Fourth
regiment of militia, known as the Fire
Zouayes, young Pattison was brought into
some public prominence by his able and
successful defense of lot of his fellow
members who were court-martialed for
insubortlinatiOn. After that whenever the
Command wanted an orator they got Dir.
Pattisou. His first appearance in the pol
Iitical field was in 1875, when his friends