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Roadside marker funded by the Pomeroy Foundation honoring the contributions of Hannah J. Patterson to the national woman suffrage movement. Located on PA State Highway Route 11 South adjacent to the Wilson College campus.

Headline "Child Welfare Committee Will See that Babies are Cared For, Despite War Conditions in U.S. Members include Dr. Franklin H. Martin, professor of pediatrics, chairman of the general medical board and member of the advisory committee of the…

Patterson was the assistant TO the Secretary of War not Assistant Secretary of War. And she was MISS Patterson not Mrs.
The Washington Times, October 24, 1919

Image from an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on December 16, 1927 announcing Patterson's role as an advisor to women with stock accounts with the J.H Holmes Investment Co. in Pittsburgh, PA

James Patterson served as president of the West Newton National Bank. He was the brother of suffragist Hannah J. Patterson.

In 1911 the Equal RIghts Association of Western Pennsylvania opened its headquarters in the Jenkins Arcade in Pittsburgh

Front row: Mrs. Philip N. Moore and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.
Second row: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Ira Couch Wood, Miss Maud Wetmore, Miss Hannah J. Patterson and Mrs. Joseph Lamar.

Photograph from a newspaper article June 1916