The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
GOLDEN WEDDING
AT CARBONDALE
Mr.. and Mrs. Roswell p. Patterson
Married Fifty Years.
CELEBRATION OF THE EVENT
Children and Grand Children Join in
the Festivities--NearIy Five Hun
dred Guests Present--A Reception
Held on Garfield Avenue. Carbon.
dale.


dale.
Roswell p Patterson and Angelina
Leonard Starkweather were married
January 49, 1S4S, and they celebrated
yesterday their fiftieth anniversary at
their home on Garfield avenue, Car
bondale. All their children We're pres
ent. as follows: Mrs Charles Schlager
of Scranton; Augustus Leonard Pat
terson, of Carbondale Mrs. Charles
McMullen, of Scranton; George Morss
Patterson, of Carbondale; Mrs. Clar-
ence f. Spencer, of Carbondale: Ros-
well II. Patterson, of Scranton; Mrs.
Charles f. Walter. of Scranton, and
Levi A. Patterson, of Carhordale.
Fourteen grandchildren also partici-
pated in the celebration.
About 500 invitations had been issued
for the event and over 300 persons
called to pay their respects to The aged
couple during the Afternoon and even
ing. Music was furnished by Bauer's
orchestra.
On this memorable occasion the en-
tire family of eight children with whom
Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson have been
blessed were present and were the first
to tender their congratulations to their
pdIShtSs lhty are M, VIE III
Charles Schlager, of Scranton: Angus
tus. Leonard Patterson, of this city;
Isabelle, wife of Charles McMullen, of
Scranton; George Morss Patterson,
Harriet. wife of Clarence +. Spencer,
of this city; Roswell II. Patterson, esq.
and Nettie F., wife of Charles f. Wal
ter of Scranton; Levi A. Patterson, of
this city.
The husbands and wives of the chill
dren with the fourteen grandchildren,
Mabel, Lois and Jeanette Schlager,
Roswell McMullen, Mildred and Helen,
Sardis and Chester Patterson. Mallory.
Marjorie and Russell Spencer and
Gladys, Grace and Carl Walters. were
also present.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were as
sisted in receiving by their sons. daugh-
ters, sons-in-law and daughters-ln-
law In the dining room the tables
were presided over by Mrs. C. o. Mel
len and Mrs. A. Niles for the first three
hours and they We're relieved by Mrs
d. Scurry and Mrs. s. A. McMul,en az
o'clock. The guests We're served by
the Misses Susie Jadwin, Lou Williams.
Jessie Moore, Minnie Reynolds, Ger
trude Harding, Margaret Clarkson,
Mabel Carr, Helen Patterson, Jennie
and Della Chumard and Mabel and
Lois Schlager, of Scranton. During the
reception Bauer's orchestra, of Scran-
ton, rendered programme of music
The handsome residence was beauti-
frhY decorated with palms, plants,
green, flowers and smilaX and the
ming scene presented by these
Haries and the mingling Of youth,
beauty and ripe old age will long linger
In the recollections of those present
Roswell p. Patterson was born at
Lansingville, Delaware county, N. Y,
April 26, 1922. His father, Daniel Pat
terson, was native of Glasgow. Scot
land, who came from there to I.ans-
ingville in 1916. His mother was Ma
tilda Peake. of New Hampshire Be-
leving that a commercial life and a
different locality offered advantages
greater than the quiet husban5ry of
the valley of the little Delaware, Mr.,
Patterson came. at the age of twenty
one, to Honesdale and has been for
f1fty-five years an active, important
factor in the development of North
eastern Pennsylvania.
He remained five years CS43-S) at
Honesdale with his uncle, Henry Darte.
Having married. he then removed TO
Waymart and engaged in the mercan-
tile business and continued there as
merchant, tanner etc, continuously
until 1872, a period of twenty-four
years, save two QS57-S), which he spent
at Carbondale as a.partner of George
l.. MorsS in the tanning business.
1t was In Waymart that Mr.. Patter-
son laid the foundation of the COM
potency which he now so deservedly
enjoys. From 1872 to 1876 he lived at
NAVafA
the commercial, tanning and numbering
business. Since 1856 he has been at
Carbondale, where he is the head OF
the Wholesale grocery business of r.
=. Patterson & Sons, though leaving
the conduct of the business to his sons
and giving his attention to his vari-
Gus investments. During the greater
part or his life he has been a consid-
cradle land owner and has given more
or less attention to farming.
MRS. Patterson was born at Canaan
now WaymarD, July 20, 1925. HeI
parents were Leonard Starkweather
and Sarah Stanton Starkweather, who
came from Preston township, Connecti-
cut, to Wayne county in 1903. He was
a school teacher Mrs. Patterson's
mother was a daughter of Colonel Asa
stanton, also a native of Preston town
SNIP Connecticut, and who came Il
Wayne, then Northampton county, in
1888. He was. in the full sense of the
word, one of the pioneers of this re,
gion' He came out from a locality
that had been settled nearly a century
and which was a land of schools and
churches, and enjoying the securities
and comforts of home life, to take ur
life in the forest. His nearest neigh
Dor was at the first nine miles distant
He >became mighty hunter as wei
as woodsman and husbandman. AS h,
had been a Revolutionary soldier, n,
now became colonel of militia. lie wal
identified with other active spirits o
the time in incorporating turnpike com
panies.