Charles Frederick Patterson, M.D., Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Betsy Webber - betsy@megalink.net

Surname: PATTERSON
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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     CHARLES FREDERICK PATTERSON, M. D., who died at Rye, N.
H., October 11, 1900, after a successful medical practice. of some fourteen
years in that town, was born at Merrimac; N, H., August 13, 1867. His
parents were Charles W. and Betsey I. (Bills) Patterson, the father a wheel-
wright by occupation. They had but two children, John W., who, like the
subject of this sketch, became a physician, and Charles Frederick.
     Charles F. Patterson acquired a good education, graduating from McGau
Normal Institute at Reeds Ferry, N. H., Bryant & Stratton Business College

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and Dartmouth Medical College. Coming to Rye in 1896, he established an
office here and it was not long before his abilities were recognized and he
had become one of the successful and popular physicians of the town. He
was a member of the Portsmouth Medical Society, the Rockingham County
Medical and Surgical Societies, the New Hampshire Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. On November 28, 1900, he married Kath-
erine Drake, who was born in Rye, N. H., December 3, 1866, daughter of
Charles A. and Helen (Weeks) Drake. Her father, a well known farmer of
Rye, is still living; her mother is deceased. They had four children: Edwin
Howard; Elizabeth Martha, who is the wife of Charles F. Smith, a farmer
of North Hampton; Katherine, widow of Dr. Patterson, and Percy Green-
ough, a physician.
     Percy Greenough Drake, M. D., was educated in the town schools of
Rye and at the Portsmouth high school where he was graduated in 1894.
After a year during which he was out of school, he entered Dartmouth Col-
lege in the fall of 1895 and was graduated there in June, 1899. In the fall
of the same year he entered Harvard Medical School, being graduated M. D.
in 1903. He began the practice of his profession at Greenland, N. H., re-
maining there until October, 1907, when he became a member of the medical
corps of the U. S. army, and was with the army until February 11, 1914.
From December, 1909, to February 14, 1911, he was in the Philippine Islands
and was subsequently stationed at Fort McKinley, Maine, until February 11,
1914, when he resigned from active service. Since then he has been con-
nected with the Equitable Life Assurance Society as traveling inspector.
     Dr. Patterson was a republican in politics and always took a strong inter-
est in educational matters, for some time being trustee of the public library.
He was a member of the Congregational church, as is also Mrs. Patterson.

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