University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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DR. HARRY J. PATTERSON

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To HARRY J. PATTERSON President Maryland Agricultural College tnis volume of tne REVEILLE is respectfully deaicatea hy The Class of Nineteen-Fifteen

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Dt. Ssttj J. Pii aTSDin R. HARRY J. PATTERSON was born at Yellow Springs, Penn- sylvania, December 17, 1867. His father, William Calvm Patterson, and his mother, Adaline (Mattern) Patterson, lived on their farm for three years after Harry ' s birth, at which time the father was called to the State College of Pennsylvania, and at once took up his abode there. For years he was Superintendent of Buildings and Construction, and left there a heritage of good will and devotion to duty that makes the name Patterson a favored one at that institution. The son attended the common schools of the town until, as a boy of sixteen, he entered the college. The State College Annual, La Vie, of 1906, in a section devoted to noted alumni, says of him : ' ' Among the earlier Alumni in what we call the more modern period of the institution, Harry J. Patterson, of the Class of 1886, is a typical representative. Of Pennsylvania birth and ancestry, he was the sort of voung man for which the college was established. He was but a boy when he came into this neighbor- hood to live, hence he entered college quite young, took the full agricultural course, and graduated before he was twenty years old. Chemistry, in its relations to agriculture appealed to him more strongly than any other line of work. In this he served his apprenticeship here ; then removed to the Maryland Experiment Station, whose chemist he was for ten years. Since that time he has been director of the Experiment Station, and has been actively interested in the development of Maryland agriculture. The situation and varied interests of this State have made the position an important and exacting one. How ably it has been filled is well shown by the length of his occupancy and high commendation he has received from many quarters. He has taken an active interest in the farming and gardening opera- tions throughout the State, frequently apj ears at Farmers Institutes and other gatherings and is now Master of the State Grange. He is a member of all the leading Chemical Societies, of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, liesides all this he finds time to pay some attention to outside business and is a director of The First National Piank of Hyattsville, Maryland. Dr. Patterson is a frequent visitor at his Alma Mater, where his parents still reside, his father being our well-known and esteemed Superin- tendent of Grounds and Buildings. Since 1906 his notoriety has increased and he is now a member of all lead- ing societies of the State and of some of the national and international as well. 8