James was the youngest of five born to bookkeeper John Patterson and his wife, Jeanie King. James was named for his paternal grandfather. This family photo [on right] was taken the year before his birth in Derry City, at his sister Fannie's 1883 christening.
Sadly James' mother died just weeks after his birth. Two years later his father left the five children with various relatives in Ireland while he sailed to Montreal to join his brother-in-law as bookkeeper for the Wm. King & Co. Furniture Store (later the largest furniture store in Montreal Renaud, King, and Patterson 1878-1974).
In 1887 James' father John remarried, to Marion Reid Russell, a cousin of William King's wife. The newlyweds immediately left for Ireland and brought the children back to Montreal to start a new life.
Sadly his father John died in 1896 when James was only 11, and his stepmother Marion was left to raise the seven children. The two older girls were schoolteachers; Marion took in boarders; and another sister and a cousin were office workers.
By 1901 James and his older brother David were live-in help on dairy farms just outside Montreal for two separate Candlish families, friends of their stepmother Marion's from Scotland.
James and his first wife Lavina Gertrude Plunkett married in 1907 in Ontario after both graduated from college, but lost their baby son in 1908. James entered the States at Niagara Falls in 1909, noting that his wife Gertrude was still in Ottawa.
In 1910 they were both employed by the Syllabic Shorthand School, 407 Caesar Misch Bldg, Providence, Rhode Island - James as principal and Gertrude as a teacher.
After we assume Gertrude passed away, James became the sales manager for the Packard Motor Car Company in Boston, the first dealership in the States to be designed with all offices and showrooms on the same floor.
About 1916 he married Olive and they lived within walking distance of the dealership. She is noted on his WWI Draft Registration and the 1920 census.
About 1928 James married for the third time, to Florence Betters Hunt in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1930 he was managing a car dealership in Chicago but by 1935 the couple was back in Brookline. In 1940 he was the Southern California Sales Representative for a wholesale liquor company, living in Los Angeles.
This alienated James from some of his five sisters in Canada who were members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the story is they never spoke again. My grandmother never mentioned his name - I can't imagine.
He had bright red hair and blue eyes. James and Florence had no children. After his cremation in Los Angeles, the ashes were interred in his mother-in-law's plot in Massachusetts.
Sadly James' mother died just weeks after his birth. Two years later his father left the five children with various relatives in Ireland while he sailed to Montreal to join his brother-in-law as bookkeeper for the Wm. King & Co. Furniture Store (later the largest furniture store in Montreal Renaud, King, and Patterson 1878-1974).
In 1887 James' father John remarried, to Marion Reid Russell, a cousin of William King's wife. The newlyweds immediately left for Ireland and brought the children back to Montreal to start a new life.
Sadly his father John died in 1896 when James was only 11, and his stepmother Marion was left to raise the seven children. The two older girls were schoolteachers; Marion took in boarders; and another sister and a cousin were office workers.
By 1901 James and his older brother David were live-in help on dairy farms just outside Montreal for two separate Candlish families, friends of their stepmother Marion's from Scotland.
James and his first wife Lavina Gertrude Plunkett married in 1907 in Ontario after both graduated from college, but lost their baby son in 1908. James entered the States at Niagara Falls in 1909, noting that his wife Gertrude was still in Ottawa.
In 1910 they were both employed by the Syllabic Shorthand School, 407 Caesar Misch Bldg, Providence, Rhode Island - James as principal and Gertrude as a teacher.
After we assume Gertrude passed away, James became the sales manager for the Packard Motor Car Company in Boston, the first dealership in the States to be designed with all offices and showrooms on the same floor.
About 1916 he married Olive and they lived within walking distance of the dealership. She is noted on his WWI Draft Registration and the 1920 census.
About 1928 James married for the third time, to Florence Betters Hunt in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1930 he was managing a car dealership in Chicago but by 1935 the couple was back in Brookline. In 1940 he was the Southern California Sales Representative for a wholesale liquor company, living in Los Angeles.
This alienated James from some of his five sisters in Canada who were members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the story is they never spoke again. My grandmother never mentioned his name - I can't imagine.
He had bright red hair and blue eyes. James and Florence had no children. After his cremation in Los Angeles, the ashes were interred in his mother-in-law's plot in Massachusetts.
James was the youngest of five born to bookkeeper John Patterson and his wife, Jeanie King. James was named for his paternal grandfather. This family photo [on right] was taken the year before his birth in Derry City, at his sister Fannie's 1883 christening.
Sadly James' mother died just weeks after his birth. Two years later his father left the five children with various relatives in Ireland while he sailed to Montreal to join his brother-in-law as bookkeeper for the Wm. King & Co. Furniture Store (later the largest furniture store in Montreal Renaud, King, and Patterson 1878-1974).
In 1887 James' father John remarried, to Marion Reid Russell, a cousin of William King's wife. The newlyweds immediately left for Ireland and brought the children back to Montreal to start a new life.
Sadly his father John died in 1896 when James was only 11, and his stepmother Marion was left to raise the seven children. The two older girls were schoolteachers; Marion took in boarders; and another sister and a cousin were office workers.
By 1901 James and his older brother David were live-in help on dairy farms just outside Montreal for two separate Candlish families, friends of their stepmother Marion's from Scotland.
James and his first wife Lavina Gertrude Plunkett married in 1907 in Ontario after both graduated from college, but lost their baby son in 1908. James entered the States at Niagara Falls in 1909, noting that his wife Gertrude was still in Ottawa.
In 1910 they were both employed by the Syllabic Shorthand School, 407 Caesar Misch Bldg, Providence, Rhode Island - James as principal and Gertrude as a teacher.
After we assume Gertrude passed away, James became the sales manager for the Packard Motor Car Company in Boston, the first dealership in the States to be designed with all offices and showrooms on the same floor.
About 1916 he married Olive and they lived within walking distance of the dealership. She is noted on his WWI Draft Registration and the 1920 census.
About 1928 James married for the third time, to Florence Betters Hunt in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1930 he was managing a car dealership in Chicago but by 1935 the couple was back in Brookline. In 1940 he was the Southern California Sales Representative for a wholesale liquor company, living in Los Angeles.
This alienated James from some of his five sisters in Canada who were members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the story is they never spoke again. My grandmother never mentioned his name - I can't imagine.
He had bright red hair and blue eyes. James and Florence had no children. After his cremation in Los Angeles, the ashes were interred in his mother-in-law's plot in Massachusetts.
Sadly James' mother died just weeks after his birth. Two years later his father left the five children with various relatives in Ireland while he sailed to Montreal to join his brother-in-law as bookkeeper for the Wm. King & Co. Furniture Store (later the largest furniture store in Montreal Renaud, King, and Patterson 1878-1974).
In 1887 James' father John remarried, to Marion Reid Russell, a cousin of William King's wife. The newlyweds immediately left for Ireland and brought the children back to Montreal to start a new life.
Sadly his father John died in 1896 when James was only 11, and his stepmother Marion was left to raise the seven children. The two older girls were schoolteachers; Marion took in boarders; and another sister and a cousin were office workers.
By 1901 James and his older brother David were live-in help on dairy farms just outside Montreal for two separate Candlish families, friends of their stepmother Marion's from Scotland.
James and his first wife Lavina Gertrude Plunkett married in 1907 in Ontario after both graduated from college, but lost their baby son in 1908. James entered the States at Niagara Falls in 1909, noting that his wife Gertrude was still in Ottawa.
In 1910 they were both employed by the Syllabic Shorthand School, 407 Caesar Misch Bldg, Providence, Rhode Island - James as principal and Gertrude as a teacher.
After we assume Gertrude passed away, James became the sales manager for the Packard Motor Car Company in Boston, the first dealership in the States to be designed with all offices and showrooms on the same floor.
About 1916 he married Olive and they lived within walking distance of the dealership. She is noted on his WWI Draft Registration and the 1920 census.
About 1928 James married for the third time, to Florence Betters Hunt in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1930 he was managing a car dealership in Chicago but by 1935 the couple was back in Brookline. In 1940 he was the Southern California Sales Representative for a wholesale liquor company, living in Los Angeles.
This alienated James from some of his five sisters in Canada who were members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the story is they never spoke again. My grandmother never mentioned his name - I can't imagine.
He had bright red hair and blue eyes. James and Florence had no children. After his cremation in Los Angeles, the ashes were interred in his mother-in-law's plot in Massachusetts.
Inscription
THOMAS CARROW
1863 - 1924
His Wife
DELINA CARROW
1956 - 1908
[Her Children]
ALICE H. RAND
1876 - 1948
FLORENCE B. PATTERSON
1888 - 1958
LENORE C. CRONIN
1891 - 1972
HARRY A. HUNT
1883 - 1948
[Florence's husband]
JAMES W. PATTERSON
1884 - 1943
Gravesite Details
No inscriptions for Harry or James, but Forest Hills confirms burials at site
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