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Paul Ivan Patterson (March 28, 1909 - March 14, 2008) was a novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, storyteller, and educator, primarily from Crane, Texas. ==Background== Patterson was born near Seminole in Gaines County in far West Texas near the New Mexico border. His father was John Dee Patterson (1869-1966), a native of Fannin County in North Texas; his mother, J. D.'s first wife, the former Noda Eula Pollard (1879-1970), was originally from Gatesville in Coryell County in Central Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paul I. Patterson )〕 J. D. and Noda married on February 25, 1900 in Big Spring in Howard County.〔 There J. D. Patterson worked for a railroad and then operated a freight company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oral History interview: Fush Patterson, August 6, 1975 )〕 The Patterson family moved south to Rankin in Upton County. For three terms J. D. was the elected county judge for Upton County. After a divorce from Noda c. 1926, when Paul was still a teenager, J. D., at fifty-eight, wed the former Sarah Caroline Conway (1876-1971), a native of Erath County who was divorced from William Elmore Long (1867-1943).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sarah "Sadie" Carolina Conway Long Patterson )〕 J. D. and "Sadie", as she was known, wed on May 21, 1927, in Big Lake in Reagan County, Texas. From this union, he acquired three stepdaughters and a stepson. J. D. and Sadie moved to Mineral Wells in Palo Pinto County, where he resided as a farmer for the nearly forty remaining years of his life. He and Sadie were members of the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination. "Judge" Patterson, as he was still known after he left office, is interred at Sturdivant Cemetery in Mineral Wells,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Dee "Judge" Patterson )〕 along with his second wife, Sadie, who died at the age of ninety-five in Weatherford in Parker County.〔 Noda Patterson did not remarry; she died at the age of ninety-one, a year before Sadie. She is interred at Rankin Cemetery.〔 Paul Patterson graduated c. 1926 from Rankin High School. In 1935, he procured his Bachelor of Arts degree from Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, from which years later he was named a "Distinguished Alumnus". His graduate work was undertaken at several institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, Utah State University in Logan, Utah, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. He also studied in Madrid, Spain, and Geneva, Switzerland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paul Patterson, March 16, 2008 )〕 During World War II, Patterson served as a cryptographer in the United States Army Air Forces with the Twelfth Air Force in the North African Theater of Operations and in Italy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Patterson (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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