Richard Barnsley Patterson (1835-1908) Obituary

Richard Barnsley Patterson. Richard Barnsley Patterson, widely known in the shoe business in Manhattan, who had been for sixty years a resident of Brooklyn, died on Sunday at his home, No. 686 Jefferson avenue, where services will be held this evening with the assistant pastor of Janes' M. E. Church officiating. The body will be buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Patterson for nearly a decade past had been manager of several large stores. He was born in the city of Lisburn, Ireland, in 1835. His death, which followed an illness of three days, was caused by pneumonia. Surviving are his widow, Cornelia A. Betts; three sons. John C., Robert L. and Richard B., residents of Philadelphia, and five daughters. Mrs. Robert G. Coile, Mrs. Edwin Webb, Mrs. Donald Miller, Mrs. Edgar Benson and Miss Cornelia Patterson.

Richard Barnsley Patterson

9/8/1908