Henry Houston Patterson

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 7 dated events in the chronology →

1. by May 29, 1880 Franklin Davies and H. H. Patterson form Franklin Davies & Company Franklin Davies and H. H. Patterson formed a business partnership, Franklin Davies & Company, in the store next to the Roberson & Harris drug store on Franklin Street. Place: Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Franklin DaviesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 29, 1880, p. 3
2. 1882 Henry H. 'Hoot' Patterson opens a general merchandise store Henry Houston 'Hoot' Patterson, a Civil War veteran married to Dr. Thomas Hogan's daughter Mary, started a general merchandise business in the building Andrew Mickle had used. Bryant calls it very successful. People: Andrew Mickle, Henry Houston Patterson Place: H. H. Patterson's store, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas HoganSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 143
3. 1890s Merchant Henry "Hoot" Patterson turns a West Cameron Avenue I-house into a Queen Anne villa In the 1890s Henry "Hoot" Patterson, whose general store was on East Franklin Street, bought the frame I-house at 403 West Cameron Avenue and turned it into a Queen Anne house with a rose window in a front gable, bracketed eaves, a bay window and an elaborate porch that wraps the corner. People: Henry Houston Patterson Place: 403 West Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry Patterson · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 41
4. November 1895 to 1896 Algernon S. Barbee serves as mayor of Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill commissioners chose Algernon S. Barbee mayor in November 1895, after the death of Mayor John H. Watson, and he was holding mayor's court by November 23. The voters elected him by a wide majority at the town election in May 1896. The town directory printed with the 1896 ordinances lists Barbee as mayor, with J. A. Holmes, J. A. London, W. N. Pritchard, H. H. Patterson and Thomas F. Lloyd as commissioners and A. J. McDade as clerk and treasurer. People: J. A. Holmes, Henry Houston Patterson, Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder), Alphonso J. McDade, John H. Watson, Algernon S. Barbee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: J. A. London, W. N. PritchardSearch the index · Commissioners of Chapel Hill, Ordinances and Charter for the Government of the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1896), scan p. 4 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 3; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 16, 1896, p. 3
5. between 1899 and 1903 Hoot Patterson's house is the first in Chapel Hill with indoor plumbing Bryant lists merchant Henry H. "Hoot" Patterson's home as the first in Chapel Hill to have indoor plumbing, one of several local firsts of these years, along with Eben Alexander's telephone and Edward Vernon Howell's automobile. People: Eben Alexander, E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 179
6. January 8, 1915 The Bank of Chapel Hill elects Milton E. Hogan cashier At the directors' annual meeting in the bank building, cashier J. C. Taylor resigned; Milton E. Hogan was elected cashier and John P. Cole assistant cashier, and a ten percent dividend was declared. M. C. S. Noble stayed on as president and H. H. Patterson as vice-president. People: James Cole Taylor, M. C. S. Noble, Henry Houston Patterson, Milton E. Hogan Place: Bank of Chapel Hill, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: John P. ColeSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), January 14, 1915, p. 4
7. May 1917 Hoot Patterson closes out his Franklin Street store and sells his groceries to Frank Pickard Patterson had groomed his son Fred to take over the business, and after Fred died in 1914 he lost interest. He kept the store going through 1915, and in early May 1917 he closed out his dry goods and shoes and put his hardware on sale. The News of May 10, 1917 reported that he had sold his groceries to J. Frank Pickard, who would occupy the Patterson store house. Bryant's history puts the store's rental to Frank Pickard and his son Clarence in 1915, the year Patterson's store account books end. People: Clarence Pickard Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Fred Patterson, Frank PickardSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), May 3, 1917, p. 5; The News (Chapel Hill), May 10, 1917, p. 5