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{{Short description|American newspaper editor and publisher}}
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'''Robert Wilson Patterson''' (1850–1910) was an American newspaper editor and [[Publishing|publisher]].

==Early life==
He was born in [[Chicago]], attended [[Lake Forest Academy]] in Lake Forest, Illinois, and graduated from [[Williams College]] in 1871, and then began the study of law.

==Career==
After the [[Great Chicago Fire|great fire in Chicago]] he became a reporter on the ''Times'', later joined the [[workforce|staff]] of the ''Interior'', and in 1873 became connected with the [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago ''Tribune'']], of which he was successively assistant night editor, Washington correspondent, editorial writer, managing editor, and editor in chief.  He was also president of the Chicago Tribune Company. Patterson lived in the [[Patterson Mansion]], a Neoclassical 30-room home on [[Dupont Circle]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], where he entertained many prominent people of the day.<ref name="NIE">{{NIE}}</ref> He died of a stroke while at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1910-04-09_9_41/page/4/mode/2up "Robert Patterson Dead; Head of Chicago Tribune Stricken with Apoplexy in Philadelphia"], ''The Editor and Publisher'', April 9, 1910, p.5</ref>

==Family tree==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Robert Wilson Patterson |sopt=t}}

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