Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that this egg matter has been disposed of. I wish information on another line which perhaps some of your readers can give: When I was a kid a long time since, "Who struck Billy Patterson?" was a moot question then much discussed. I think there was a Congressional investigation, but as I was out of the U. S. A. for a number of years I never heard how it was settled. Now I do not care to know why he was struck or where he was struck. BUT WHO STRUCK HIM. It's important...
...There are various accounts of the origin of this "Where's Elmer?" of the 1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
...colleague who made the remark to Graham Patterson referred to in an item in the Feb. 27 issue of TIME entitled "God Pity the Farmers" I feel constrained to correct the impression contained in that comment. ... I cannot ignore the implied reflection on the character of Mr. Patterson. Your editors, without permission, have seen fit to broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people, entirely out of its setting, a purely joking remark made among close friends. Your editors in their typical flippant manner have elevated a bit of careless joshing into an appraisal of character, which has no basis...
...those of us who are proud to be numbered among the friends of Graham Patterson his Christian character needs no defense, but I sincerely hope you will find a way to correct the impression your item must have made on his many unknown friends among Christian Herald and Farm Journal readers...
...TIME took Mr. Maynard's purely joking remark as it was meant, intended no slight to Mr. Patterson...