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| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Caleb Perry Patterson, teacher and author, was born in Saltillo, Tennessee, on January 23, 1880, the son of Robert Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Creasy) Patterson. |
 | | Patterson was an instructor in literature at Vanderbilt (1910-11); professor of history and government, West Tennessee Teachers College (1912-17); and instructor of history, Columbia (1918-19). |
 | | Among his books were The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865 (1922), The Administration of Justice in Great Britain (1936), Presidential Government in the United States (1947), and The Constitutional Principles of Thomas Jefferson (1953). |
| www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/PP/fpa51.html (547 words) |
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