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Start Over You searched for: Repository University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library ✖ Remove constraint Repository: University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Creator Patterson, John C., 1838-1910 ✖ Remove constraint Creator: Patterson, John C., 1838-1910 Level Collection ✖ Remove constraint Level: Collection Places United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. ✖ Remove constraint Places: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Subjects Women. ✖ Remove constraint Subjects: Women. Date range 1895 to 1899 ✖ Remove constraint Date range: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1895">1895</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1899">1899</span>Search Results
18.5 linear feet — 1 oversize folder
The John C. Patterson collection is divided into the following series: Correspondence; Letterpress books; Legal files; Diaries; Miscellaneous business records; John C. Patterson personal; and Other family members and miscellaneous. Much of the correspondence is addressed either to Patterson or to William H. Brown and pertains to their law practice. Other correspondence relates to family matters, politics, and Hillsdale College. Included in the correspondence are nine letters of Philo D. Patterson written while he was serving in Company H, Ninth Michigan Infantry, February-September 1865. Two of the letters reflect on the assassination of President Lincoln. There are also letters from Frank Dean Patterson, 1892-1894, when he was a student at the University of Michigan.