PASKO
PATERSON
18S7, and took his seat, Dec. 5, 1887, his term ex-
piring March .3, 1893, when he was appointed by
Governor Henry L. Mitchell to fill the office ad
interim. When the legislature met in April,
he was renominated by acclamation and un-
animously re-elected for the term expiring March
3, 1899. Being again appointed to fill the office
ad interim by Governor William D. Bloxham, he
served until the election of James Piper Taliaferro
by the legislature, April 19, 1899. In the 53rd
congress he was chairman of the committee on
claims. On June 10, 1899, he was appointed a
member of the Isthmian Canal commission.
PASKO, Wesley Washington, typographist, was born in Waterloo, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1840 ; son of Jeremiah and Martha (Van Osdol) Probasco and a descendant of colonial families of New York. He did not adopt the surname of Pasko until after 1872. He was graduated at the public school of Waterloo, was employed in a cotton and woolen factory until 1855, when he entered a printing office in Utica, N.Y., and in 1859 went to the office of the New York Tribune, removing to Charleston, S.C, in 1860. He was arrested as an abolitionist by the vigilance committee, and on failure to prove the charge he was ordered to leave the city. He was married. Oct. 21, I860, to Elizabeth Tlieresa Jarret. He published a paper in Trumansburg, N.Y., 1860-61, and returned to tlie Tribune in 1861. He enlisted in the 16th N.Y. Heavy Artillery, and served in the army under Gen. B. F. Butler, He returned to New York at the close of the war and served on the editorial staff of newspapers both in Albany and Troy. He was an editor in the department of public instruction, assisted in codifying the N.Y. school laws in 1867, and on his return to New York city in 1868, edited the Albion and subse- quently a newspaper in Lancaster, N.H., again returning to New York to engage in the printing business. He was literary advisor for a Cin- cinnati publishing house, 1879-83, and in 1883 established the New York Typothetee, being made its secretary and librarian in 1885. He invented the Pasko Press in 1886, capable of producing 60,000 impressions of small financial and stock exchange bulletins in one hour. He is the editor of : Memvho Advertise (1868) ; Old Neio York (1870) ; author of : Biorjraplncal History of Indiana (1881) ; History of Butler County. Ohio, (1883) ; ^4. Dictionary of Printing and Book Mak- ing slthI History of Printing in Neic York from its Beginning to the Present Time. He died in New York city, Dec. 15. 1897.
PATERSON, John, patriot, was born in Farm- ington. Conn., in 1774; son of Maj. John and Ruth (Bird) Paterson. His paternal grandfather, a native of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, emigrated to America during the latter part of the seventeenth
century. His father, Maj. John Paterson, an
officer in the British army, served in the
French and Indian wars, was with Wolfe at
Quebec and died at Havana, Cuba, Sept. 5, 1763.
Gen. John Paterson was graduated from Yale in
1702, taught scliool, and studied and practised
law. He was justice of the peace of Farraington
and was married, June 2, 1766, to Elizabeth,
daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Warren) Lee.
In 1774 he removed to Lenox, Berkshire county,
Mass., and the same year was elected clerk of the
propriety of Lenox, selectman and assessor. He
was a member of the Berkshire convention held
at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1774 and was a repre-
sentative in the 1st and 2d provincial congresses
at Salem and Cambridge respectively. He or-
ganized the Stockbridge Indians for military ser-
vice and raised a regiment known as the 15th
foot in the Continental service, of which he be-
came colonel. It marched to Boston the third
day after the battle of Lexington and threw up
the first redoubt along the lines around Boston,
which placed the city in a state of siege by
blockading the highways. During the battle of
Bunker Hill he held Fort No. 3, Prospect Hill,
Charlestown Heights, and engaged in the de-
fence of Lechmere's Point, Nov. 9, 1775, for
which he was complimented by Washington.
He joined Arnold in Canada and took part in the
battle of the Cedars near Montreal in June, 1776,
where seventy-nine of his men were taken
prisoners. He was engaged in the battles of
Trenton and Princeton, N.J. ; promoted brigadier-
general, Feb. 21, 1777 ; sent toTiconderoga, being
present at the evacuation, July 5, 1777 ; fought at
the battle of Hubbardton, Juh' 7-11, and was with
General Gates at Saratoga in October, 1777. He
was with Washington at Valley Forge, 1777-78,
and participated in the battle at Monmouth, June
28, 1778. He was a member of the board that
tried Major Andre ; was in command at W^est
Point, 1780-81, and was commissioned major-
general, Sept. 30, 1783, being with the exception
of Lafayette the youngest of that rank in the
Continental army. In December, 1783, he retired
from the army and resumed his law practice in
Lenox. Upon the outbreak of Shays's rebellion
in 1785, he was appointed major-general of tlie
state militia and commanded the Berkshire
militia. For his services in this rebellion he was
tendered the thanks of the legislature. He was
one of the organizers of the Society of the Cin-
cinnati, his name standing second on the list
after General Washington. He removed to Tioga
county, N.Y.. in 1791 ; was a member of the state
assembly, 1792, 1793, 1798 and 1801 ; was chief
justice of Tioga and Broome counties, 1798-1808,
and was a representative from New York in the
8th congress, 1803-05. He received his master's
