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- From Goodspeed Shelby County TN
Gantt & Patterson, attorneys at law, is a strong firm consisting of Col. George Gantt, Col. Josiah Patterson and M. R. Patterson, and was organized in April, 1878, succeeding the firm of "Gantt, Patterson & Lowe." Col. Josiah Patterson is a native of Morgan County, Ala., where he was reared, educated and admitted to the bar in 1859. Upon the breaking out of the late war, he raised, and was made commander of the Fifth Alabama Cavalry, and served with distinction throughout the war. Upon the establishment of peace he opened a law office at Somerville, Ala., where he practiced one year, and then five years in Florence, Ala. In March, 1872, he came to Memphis and was a member of the firm of Patterson & Lowe until the formation of the firm of Gantt Patterson & Lowe, which was terminated in a few months by the death of Mr. Lowe. In 1882-83 Col. Patterson was a member of the State Legislature from this county. He is a member of the order of F. & A. M. His parents were Malcolm and Mary (Deloach) Patterson, natives of Maryland, and were of the famous Scotch-Irish descent. They followed the occupation of farming, and died in Morgan County, Ala., the father in 1859 and the mother in 1875. M. R. Patterson is a son of Col. Josiah Patterson and was born in the State of Alabama in 1861. He was educated in the Vanderbilt University, and afterward studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Memphis bar in 1881. He then practiced alone for one year, since which time he has been a member of the law firm of Gantt & Patterson. On the 24th of February, 1886, he was joined in marriage to Miss Lucile Johnson, a native of this city. He is a member of the F. & A. M. order.
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1837 - 1905 (67 years)
