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- His father abandoned his mother after four months of marriage. His grandfather Benjamin Patterson adopted him.
VOCATION: At the age of 16, Charles Patterson was apprenticed out to learn the printer's trade with the firm of Gales and Seaton, Washington, DC, publishers of the "Intelligencer." This trade Charles followed during his life. Source: Genealogy of the Patterson, Wheat, and Hearn Families, by Randle, p10.
SOURCE: Randle, Genealogy of the Patterson, Wheat, and Hearn Families, 1926. pp9-10, 14, 17, 20, 48. Photograph appears opposite p10.
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