Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson
(1802–1857)
BIRTH
1802
PLACE
NAME
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale
DEATH
1857
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale
(1765-1804)
BROTHER
Charles Linnaeus Peale
(1794-1832)
BROTHER
Franklin Peale
(1795-1870)
CHILDREN
Charles Willson Peale
(1741-1827)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson (1802–1857) was the youngest child of painter Charles Willson Peale and his second wife, Elizabeth DePeyster. Her mother died when she was small, and her father’s later wife Hannah Moore helped raise the younger children. Charles painted Elizabeth’s portrait in 1818, now recorded by the Smithsonian. She married William Augustus Patterson in 1820 and outlived his 1833 death. She is distinct from her mother, despite their shared names.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson died in 1857. Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson was the youngest child of painter Charles Willson Peale and his second wife, Elizabeth DePeyster. Her mother died when she was small, and her father’s later wife Hannah Moore helped raise the younger children. Charles painted Elizabeth’s portrait in 1818, now recorded by the Smithsonian. She married William Augustus Patterson in 1820 and outlived his 1833 death. She is distinct from her mother, despite their shared names. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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