Theodore H. Patterson Druggist Recipe book (Ms.2018.003)

Biographical/Historical Note

“Theodore H. Patterson’s American ancestry dates back to December 1685; a great grandfather was captain in a regiment of Washington’s Life Guards. The subject of this sketch was born in Lorain county, Ohio, November 24, 1840. He received his early education in Elyria and Oberlin, Ohio, and when eighteen years of age began teaching school, utilizing vacation periods for furthering his own education preparatory to and in the study of medicine. He graduated from Charity Hospital Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio; soon thereafter he was appointed by Governor Brough of Ohio assistant surgeon in the 187th Regiment 0. V. I., and was later promoted to major and Surgeon-in-chief of the second military district of Georgia. After the close of the war he came to Chicago and opened a drug store, which was continued by him for over half a century and for nearly forty years in the same locality. For a number of years he was actively interested in the Chicago College of Pharmacy, serving as secretary and trustee, also for a time as president. He assisted in organizing and establishing the Illinois College of Pharmacy, which later became attached to the Northwestern University. Dr. Patterson has always exhibited an interest in organizations for the advancement of pharmacy, joining the American Pharmaceutical Association, of which he is now fifty years a member, in 1869. He has been secretary and president of both the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association and Chicago Retail Druggists’ Association. He is a member of the G. A. R., the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of both the York and Scottish Rites in Masonry.”

From Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, vol. 8, no. 2 (February 1919), pg. 87.

Theodore H. Patterson died on September 6, 1919 in Seattle, WA.