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William Paterson was born December 24, 1745, in County Antrim, Ireland, to Richard Paterson, an Ulster Protestant. [2] Paterson immigrated with his parents to New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1747. [3] At 14, he began college at Princeton. After graduating, he read law with the prominent lawyer Richard Stockton and was admitted to the bar in 1768.
William Paterson, from a wash drawing in the British Museum. William Paterson (April 1658 - 22 January 1719) was a Scottish trader and banker. He was the founder of the Bank of England and was one of the main proponents of the catastrophic Darien scheme. Later he became an advocate of union with England.
William Paterson (judge) (1745–1806), Attorney General of New Jersey Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Attorney General Patterson .
Principally authored by William Paterson of New Jersey, the New Jersey Plan was an important alternative to the Virginia Plan proposed by James Madison and Edmund Randolph of Virginia. [2] Its proposals would have created a political entity similar to the modern-day European Union.
William Paterson (3 January 1843 [1] – 17 December 1906) was a Scottish trade unionist and fire officer. Born in Elgin , Paterson followed his father in becoming a joiner . He completed an apprenticeship, and then moved to Edinburgh to find work.
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William was born in 1850 [3] (some sources 1849), at Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, son of John and Janet (Burns) Paterson, of Tullibody. His father was a Balman (sometimes called a "ball man" or "pot still man") [4] to trade at Glenochil Distillery. He is also recorded as having worked as a gardener [5] at Tullibody House. [6]
William Paterson Paterson FRSE DD LLD (1860–1939) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland. He was professor of divinity at the University of Edinburgh from 1904 to 1934. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1919. [ 1 ]