James K. Patterson

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This file appears in: Patterson Hall

James Patterson was the first president of what is now the University of Kentucky.
Photo courtesy of the University of Kentucky.

This file appears in: Patterson Hall

By Becky Riddle
Given to the University of Kentucky by the class of 2003, Historical Marker #2106 commemorates Patterson Hall. When women finally obtained campus housing in 1904, twenty-four years after the first…