Rev. Robert M. Patterson was installed at the Great Valley Presbyterian Church on August 25, 1859 and served until 1868. He organized, at the outbreak of the Civil War, the first Soldiers’ Aid Society, and this group sent carload after carload of supplies to the front until peace was declared. In 1864, $385.00 was given to missions.

Dr. Robert M. Patterson was again called to be pastor on June 18, 1885, and his second term of service lasted until 1907.

References

The Great Valley Presbyterian Church by Ruth Moore Styer, TEQ 8-1 (November 1953)

Great Valley Presbyterian Church by Mary Robertson Ives, TEQ 22-4 (October 1984)