Robert Patterson (educator)
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Robert Patterson was an Irish-American mathematician and director of the United States Mint from 1806 to 1824. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1779 to 1810, pr
1830 painting of Patterson by Rembrandt Peale, a copy of his own earlier work from 1812
Lewis and Clark Expedition
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchas
Robert Patterson (educator)
…provost from 1810 to 1813. At the request of Thomas Jefferson, he advised Meriwether Lewis on the purchase and usage of navigational equipment for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He was born on 30 May 1743, on a farm near Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, to Robert Patterson and Jane Walkers. He attended school at an early…
Portraits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Camp Dubois (Camp Wood) reconstruction, where the Corps of Discovery mustered on the east side of the Mississippi River, through the winter of 1803–1804, to await the transfer of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States
Corps of Discovery meets Chinooks on the Lower Columbia in October 1805 (Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia, painted by Charles M. Russell, c. 1905).
Reconstruction of Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark Memorial Park, North Dakota