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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William J. Pattison Papers, #2315, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Charles Pattison of Ocean Springs, Miss., 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

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• Commission merchants--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Commission merchants--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• Cotton trade--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Cotton trade--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--Louisiana.
• Family--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• First Presbyterian Church (Pass Christian, Miss.)--History.
• Louisiana--Economic conditions.
• New Orleans (La.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• New Orleans (La.)--Politics and government.
• New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Pass Christian (Miss.)--Church history--19th century.
• Pass Christian (Miss.)--Economic conditions.
• Pattison, William J., 1828-1897?
• Presbyterian Church--Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Real property--Southern States--History--19th century.

William J. Pattison (1828-1897?) was a cotton factor of New Orleans, La. He owned property in Pass Christian, Miss., and was treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church there in the 1870s and 1880s.

The collection includes business papers and family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1897, of William J. Pattison including business letters, bills, receipts, invoices, accounts, and legal papers concerning the sale of cotton, the purchase of goods for planters, the management of estates, and real estate of Pattison and various partners. Pattison had close business associates in New York, N.Y., where he lived from 1866 to 1867 while handling business for Louisianans. Also present are family letters and household accounts, material on civil and political matters in New Orleans, La., and papers about Pattison's property in Pass Christian, Miss., and the First Presbyterian Church there, of which he was treasurer in the 1870s and 1880s.