Evening star., 1922-05-08
JOHN /. PATTERSON,
N.C.R.FOUNDER, DIES
Dayton, Ohio, Manufacturer
and PhiIanthropist, Is
Stricken on Train.
BY. the Associated press

oy tne Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. May s.-Ar-
| rangements were made today to take
the body Of John H. Patterson.
| founder and chairman of the board Of
directors of the National Cash Regis
| tor Company. to his home, at Dayton.
| Ohio. for interment. Mr. Pattersons
valet was his only companion when
J the manufacturer was stricken with
| heart disease while on a train bound
! for this city in search of health.
Mr.. Patterson was seated in a chair.
chatting with his valet. his only COM
panion. when, as the train passed
| through Kirkwood, Camden county.
| F. Trudeau Of Saranac Lake, N. Y,
| who was in the next parlor car. was
summoned and, tried to revive the
| stricken man. but all restoratives
| failed. He had been a sufferer from
| chronic cardiac condition.
The body was brought to this city
and sent to an undertaking parlor.
William Roberts, the valet. wired the
family.
Mr. Patterson had reservations at
a beach front hotel. where he was
to have remained for two weeks.
| Reared on Farm.
Mr.. Patterson, who started life as
a farmland near Dayton, Ohio, and
established the biggest business of
[ it's kind in the world on the land that
he had plowed as a boy. retired as
president Of the NATIONAL Cash Regis
! ter Company on July 16, 1921. Upon
retirement he was elected chairman
| of the board of directors, an homo
rary position. At the time of retiring
he was seventy-seven years old, hav-
ing been born on farm December
| IS, 1874.
! He did farm work. canal toll col
lecting, retailing OF coal. mine oper-
ating. and finally went west" to
seek fortune as a ranch and orchard
idea Of his career-manufacturi
and selling cash registers.
Mr.. Patterson's mother. in telling of
her sons life on the farm. said: He
| used to be called at o'clock in the
! spring. summer and fall. He had to
enough wood to last all day. split
kindling and get 1t ready for the
night. After breakfast he would turn
| the calves out, put up his dinner and
go to school. In the evening 1T was
necessary to drive up the calves. feed
the boxes and after supper to study
lessons"
Mr. Patterson studied two years at
Miami University at Oxford. Ohio and
afterward at Dartmouth.
Ranchman In Colorado.
After his venture as ranchman
! In Colorado he returned to Dayton.
where he set UP q factory for making
cash registers, employing at first
h ~
cess he aided to transform a slum
factory district into sanitary and
better working conditions.
In 1901 France made him chevalier
of the Legion Of Honor in token of
his interest in employees. and in 1919
orary degree Of doctor Of laws for
! welfare work and advanced business
methods.
In the Dayton flood of 1913 Mr..
destruction OF his business. and
helped the city to recover from the
disaster.
His civic work resulted in placing
the city under commission manager
government. and his appointment as
Governor of Ohio. Through Mr.. Pat
, terson's personal supervision. $1,000
900 was raised to prevent future
! floods in Dayton.
An Indictment was returned against
him in 1912 for alleged violation of
the Sherman antitrust law, followed
| by-conviction and sentence to one
year in Jail and fines.
The case was appealed, the judg-
ment reversed and a compromise de-
cree was entered.
Objected to Pardon.
| While the case was in progress
prominent persons wired President
Wilson and asked him to pardon Mr.
Patterson and his associates from
| the sentence imposed. but when Mr.
Patterson learned OF this he sent
President Wilson a telegram saying
| he would not accept a pardon, and
that all he wanted was simple jus
tice."
| In the world war he placed his fac
| tory at the disposal of the govern
| ment, but refused to accept contracts
| on a cost-plus basis. He said 1t was
not right to work on a basis where
| the more he spent the more he made.