death_date birth_place citizenship name birth_date article_title birth_name alma_mater
26 may 2006 lynn , massachusetts united states c. h. patterson 22 june 1912 c. h. patterson
 cecil holden patterson university of chicago -lrb- b.a.
c. h. patterson

c. h. -lrb- cecil holden -rrb- patterson -lrb- june 22 , 1912 -- may 26 , 2006 -rrb- was born in lynn , massachusetts .
he was an emeritus professor of psychology at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign in the united states .
he received his bachelor 's degree in sociology from the university of chicago in 1938 , and his ph.d. in psychology from the university of minnesota in 1955 .
he was the author of many publications in the fields of educational psychology and counseling .
he served in the army during world war ii .
in 1942 , he married frances spano , a nutritionist whom he met at fels research institute in yellow springs , ohio .
they had seven children .
his second-eldest child is francine patterson , a researcher who taught a modified form of american sign language to a gorilla named koko .
