William Weston Patton (October 19, 1821 – October 21, 1889), was an abolitionist, academic administrator, and scholar. He served as the fifth president of Howard University, and one of the contributors to the words of "John Brown's Body". He was the son of Rev. William Patton and the grandson of Anglo-Irish Congregationalist immigrant and Revolutionary War soldier Major Robert Patton. (From Wikipedia) More about William W. Patton:
| | Books by William W. Patton: Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: The History of Howard University, Washington, D.C., by the Late President William W. Patton, D.D., Ll.D.: 1867 to 1888 (Washington: Industrial Dept., Howard University, 1896) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Inaugural Address of William Weston Patton, D. D. (Washington: W. M. Stuart, printer, 1877) (page images at MOA) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Prayer and its Remarkable Answers: Being a Statement of Facts in the Light of Reason and Revelation (Chicago: J. S. Goodman; et al., 1876)
Additional books by William W. Patton in the extended shelves: Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: The American board and slaveholding (W.H. Burleigh, printer, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: The compensated agency of the U.S. Sanitary Commission explained and defended. (Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding, Printers, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Conscience and law; or, A discussion of our comparative responsibility to human and divine government: with an application to the fugitive slave law. (M. H. Newman & Co.;, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: The death of a mother : a discourse delivered in the 1st Congregational Church, Chicago Illinois, Sabbath, August 2, 1857 (Scripps, Bross & Spears, 1857), also by Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: The execution of John Brown; a discourse, delivered at Chicago, December 4th, 1859, in the First Congregational Church. (Church, Goodman & Cushing, printers, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Inaugural address of William Weston Patton, D. D. as President of Howard University. October 9, 1877. (W. M. Stuart, printer, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: The last century of Congregationalism; or, The influence on church and state of the faith and polity of the Pilgrim fathers (W. M. Stuart, printer, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Lectures for the times. (Derby and Miller, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Prayer and its remarkable answers; being a statement of facts in the light of reason and revelation. (J. S. Goodman, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Prayer and its remarkable answers : being a statement of facts in the light of reason and revelation (Funk & Wagnalls, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Prayer and its remarkable answers being a statement of facts in the light of reason and revelation (W. Briggs;, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: President Lincoln and the Chicago memorial of emancipation, a paper read before the Maryland historical society December 12th, 1887 ([Printed by J. Murphy and Co.], 1888), also by Chicago (Ill.). Sept. 7 (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Purely secular public schools: an address on the Bible and the public schools delivered in Farwell Hall, Chicago, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1876 ... (Lakeside Publishing and Printing Company, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Slavery and infidelity, or, Slavery in the church ensures infidelity in the world (Am. Reform Book & Tract Society, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Slavery in the church. (Am. Reform Book and Tract Society, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust) Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889: Slavery, the Bible, infidelity (W.H. Burleigh, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
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