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Rev.
William Weston Patton (
19 October,
1821,
New York City -
1889), was president of
Howard University, a fierce
abolitionist and one of the contributors to the words of
John Brown's Body. He was the son of Rev.
William Patton and the grandson of Anglo-Irish Congregationalist immigrant and Revolutionary War Major
Robert Patton.
Abolitionist
Patton took an earnest part in the
anti-slavery movement, and was chairman of the committee that presented to
President Lincoln, 13 September,
1862, the memorial from Chicago asking him to issue a
proclamation of emancipation. He was vice-president of the Northwestern
sanitary commission during the
American Civil War, and as such repeatedly visited the eastern and western armies, publishing several pamphlet, reports. In
1886 he went, on behalf of the
freedmen, to
Europe, where, and in
the Orient, he remained nearly a year.
John Brown's Body
In October
1861 Patton wrote new lyrics to the battle song
John Brown's Body. These were published in the
Chicago Tribune on December 16, 1861. Even more than the previous words the new words glorify the violent acts of the abolitionist
John Brown and his followers. The third verse directly refers to the attack on the armory in
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Verse four compares John Brown to
John the Baptist.
These themes were further refined two months later by
Julia Ward Howe; her version came to be known as
The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Where Patton only wrote
"of the Christ we're to see", Howe testified that
her eyes had already
"seen the glory of the coming of the Lord".
Academic career
Patton graduated at the
New York University in
1839 and at the
Union theological seminary in
1842. After taking charge of a Congregational church in
Boston,
Massachusetts, for three years, he became pastor of one in
Hartford,
Connecticut, in
1846, and in
Chicago,
Illinois, in
1857. He received the degree of
D.D. from
DePauw University,
Indiana, in
1864, and that of
LL.D. from the New York University in
1882. From
1867 till
1872 he was editor of
The Advance in that city, and during
1874 he was lecturer on modern skepticism at
Oberlin,
Ohio, and Chicago theological seminaries. From
1877 to
1889 he was president of
Howard University,
Washington, D.C., filling the chair of
natural theology and evidences of Christianity in its theological department.
Publications
Patton is the author of
The Young Man (Hartford, 1847; republished as
The Young Man's Friend, Auburn, New York, 1850) ;
Conscience and Law (New York, 1850);
Slavery and Infidelity (Cincinnati, 1856);
Spiritual Victory (Boston, 1874); and
Prayer and its Remarkable Answers (Chicago, 1875).
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