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PATTERSON, ANNE VIRGINIA SHARPE (MRS. ROBERT E.): 1841-1913.

Anne Virginia Sharpe , daughter of George Washington and Caroline Rebecca Snider Sharpe, was born in Delaware, O., in 1841 and was educated in private schools and at Delaware Female College. On Jan. 4, 1866, she married Robert E. Patterson.

In 1892 Mrs. Patterson moved to Indiana, where she was a resident of Kokomo . She was editor of what was said to be the first newspaper children's page in America. Active in the conservation movement, she was a leader in the widespread bird-house campaign among school children. She died on May 30, 1913.

Information from Who Was Who in America.

  • The American Girl of the Period: Her Ways and Views. By Garry Gaines. Philadelphia, 1878.Search "The American Girl of the Period: Her Ways and Views. By Garry
                                            Gaines" by PATTERSON, ANNE VIRGINIA SHARPE (MRS. ROBERT E.): 1841-1913. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Speeches, Prose, Rhyme and Jingle for the Trades' Carnival. Springfield, 0., 1889.Search "Speeches, Prose, Rhyme and Jingle for the Trades'
                                            Carnival" by PATTERSON, ANNE VIRGINIA SHARPE (MRS. ROBERT E.): 1841-1913. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Supplement to Business Men's Jubilee, or Trades' Carnival. Urbana, 0., 1889.Search "Supplement to Business Men's Jubilee, or
                                            Trades' Carnival" by PATTERSON, ANNE VIRGINIA SHARPE (MRS. ROBERT E.): 1841-1913. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Dickey Downy: the Autobiography of a Bird. Philadelphia, 1899.Search "Dickey Downy: the Autobiography of a Bird" by PATTERSON, ANNE VIRGINIA SHARPE (MRS. ROBERT E.): 1841-1913. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Lady of the Green Scarf: an Entertainment Exercise for Schools Embodying the Need for Conserving Our Country's Natural Resources, Suitable for Weekly Rhetoricals, Class Exercises and Arbor Day. Chicago, 1910.Search "Lady of the Green Scarf: an Entertainment Exercise for
                                            Schools Embodying the Need for Conserving Our Country's Natural
                                            Resources, Suitable for Weekly Rhetoricals, Class Exercises and Arbor
                                        Day" by PATTERSON, ANNE VIRGINIA SHARPE (MRS. ROBERT E.): 1841-1913. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
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