Mattew Boyd Patterson (Dickinson Alumni Record)

*Patterson, Mattew Boyd --- Born September 23, 1803, in Montour county, Pa.; 1825, Princeton theological seminary; 1828-9, supply at Bloomsburg, Pa.; 1830, ordained by Northumberland presbytery; 1830-53, pastor in Perry county, Pa., and during most of this time was principal of an academy at new Bloomfield, Pa.; 1854-8, pastor at Washington, Pa.; 1865-77, supply at Ridott, Ill.  Died September 17, 1877, at Freeport, Ill.