Frederick Patterson
Feb 09, 2020
2 minutes
BY DAVID CONWILL
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREENFIELD, OHIO
FREDERICK PATTERSON’S FATHER was born a slave in Virginia in 1833. He escaped in 1861 and settled in Greenfield, Ohio, the next year, where he found work as a blacksmith for a carriage builder, Dines and Simpson.
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