Arnold Patterson was a leading Ohio Gurneyite.
Patterson was born in North Carolina before his parents moved to Ohio. He moved to Chesterfield MM in the fall of 1837 and lived in the first two-story log house in the village. Patterson operated a tavern in the village.
He held many appointments in Ohio YM prior to the Gurney division, which took place at Chesterfield in 1856. Patterson served as a Gurney overseer at Chesterfield and as an Elder 1866-1881. His brother Tilman Patterson was a leading Ohio Wilburite, and his grandson Carl Patterson was a later leading minister of Ohio YM.
Sources: EAQG 4:260-261, 427, 590, 592, 1071, 1109; Charles Robertson, History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Chicago: L.H. Watkins & Co., 1886), p. 446. |
