March 26, 1864, Bow­doin­ham, Maine.

May 10, 1952, Clare­mont, Cal­i­for­nia.

Patten at­tende­d Col­by Un­i­ver­si­ty (AB 1890) and re­ceived his the­ol­o­gy de­gree from Ban­gor The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­a­ry (1893). He was or­dained as a Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter in Ever­e­tt, Mass­a­chu­setts, on Feb­ru­a­ry 1, 1894. He pas­tored at the First Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Ev­er­ett, Mass­a­chu­setts (1895-7); First Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, South Had­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts (1897-1905); First Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, San­ta Ro­sa, Cal­i­for­nia (1905-9); Sa­cra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia (1909-17); For­est Grove Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Or­e­gon (1917-9); Cen­ter Church, Tor­ring­ton, Con­nec­ti­cut (1919-29); Ma­di­son Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Con­nec­ti­cut (1929-34). His works in­clude:

• The Awak­en­ing, 1892
• The Re­li­gious Train­ing of Child­ren, 1897
• With God at Sea, a po­em in The Sea Breeze, by the Bos­ton Sea­man’s Friends So­ci­e­ty , 1900
• Can We Find God? (New York: George H. Dor­an Com­pa­ny, 1924)
• Open Let­ter to Prof. John Dew­ey, 1933

1. Faith of Our Mo­thers