1899-1956
Director, Bureau of Safety, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1934-1939; Member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1939-1952; Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1944
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APPOINTMENT BOOKS
Box 1
- 1946
- 1947
- 1948
- 1949
Box 2
- 1899-1919
- 1920-1938
- 1939-1940
- 1941-1944
- 1945-1946
- 1947-1949
- 1950-1952
- 1953-1956
Box 3
- Personal and financial notes (folders 1-7)
Box 4
- Personal and financial notes (folders 8-14)
- Personal notes - miscellaneous
Box 5
- Newspaper clippings - personal (2 folders)
- Patterson, William J. - personal papers
- Patterson, William J. - financial records
Box 6
- 1934 - September 10 - Chicago, Illinois - Car Foremen's Association of Chicago
- 1934 - October 3 - Cleveland, Ohio - Safety Section, American Railway Association, National Safety Council
- 1935 - January 8 - Boston, Massachusetts - New England Railroad Club
- 1935 - November 21 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Railway Club of Pittsburgh
- 1936 - April 6 - Indianapolis, Indiana - Indianapolis Car Inspection Association
- 1936 - June 24 - Chicago, Illinois - Safety Section, Association of American Railroads
- 1936 - August 18 - Chicago, Illinois, 23rd Convention, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of America
- 1937 - April 20 - New Haven, Connecticut - New Haven Railroad Club
- 1937 - August 3 - Superior, Wisconsin - Presentation of Medal of Honor Awarded by the President to Arnold F. Haack
- 1937 - September 29 - Chicago, Illinois - Convention of Car Department Officers Association
- 1937 - October 15 - New York, New York - New York Railroad Club
- 1938 - February 14 - Montreal - Canadian Railway Club
- 1938 - March 29 - Chicago, Illinois - Regional Safety Meeting, Association of American Railroads
- 1938 - August 16 - Toronto, Ontario - 24th Convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America
- 1939 - March 13 - Chicago, Illinois - Convention of Signal Section, Association of American Railroads
- 1939 - March 17 - Louisville, Kentucky - Regional Safety Meeting, Association of American Railroads
- 1939 - April 3 - St. Paul, Minnesota - Meeting of the Northwest Carmen's Association
- 1939 - June 6 - Chicago, Illinois - 45th Annual Convention, American Association of Railroad Superintendents
- 1940 - June 27 - Chicago Illinois - extemporaneous remarks, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
- 1941 - May 7 - Chicago, Illinois - Regional Meeting, Association of American Railroads
- 1944 - March 15 - Resolutions - Eastman Section - Vol. I - 253
- 1944 - September 26 - Chicago, Illinois - "Convention in Print," Coordinated Mechanical Association
- 1944 - October 1 - Motor Carriers Regulations During World War II
- 1946 - April 16 - St. Louis, Missouri - Meeting of Car Department Association of St. Louis
- 1946 - July 16 - Detroit, Michigan - 29th International Convention, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
- 1946 - August 8 - Chicago, Illinois - 20th Annual Meeting, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
- 1946 - August 21 - Jacksonville, Florida - 28th Regional Convention, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America
- 1946 - October 15 - Swampscott, Massachusetts, 28th Annual Meeting, Association of American Railroads
- 1947 - June 25 - Atlantic City, New Jersey - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
- 1947 - July 22 - San Francisco, California - 38th Convention, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Box 7
- 1948 - January 15 - New York, New York - New York Railroad Club
- 1948 - June 28 - Chicago, Illinois - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
- 1949 - September 19 - Chicago, Illinois - 51st Annual Convention, Signal Section, Association of American Railroads
- 1949 - September 27 - Chicago, Illinois - 66th Annual Convention, American Short Line Railroad Association
- 1949 - November 22 - St. Louis, Missouri - Meeting of the Car Department Association of St. Louis
- 1950 - September 20 - New York, New York - 52nd Annual Meeting, Signal Section, Association of American Railroads
- 1951 - June 27 - Chicago, Illinois - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
- 1951 - December - Genoa, Italy - 4th Session of the Inland Transport Committee, International Labor Organization
- 1952 - June 11 - St. Louis, Missouri - Regional Convention of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
- 1952 - September 15 - Chicago, Illinois - Locomotive Maintenance Officers Association
- 1952 - October 2 - San Francisco, California - American Short Line Railroad Association
- 1953 - June 23 - Atlantic City, New Jersey - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
- Interstate Commerce Commission - Opinions by Commissioner W. J. Patterson - Vol. I., August 1943
- Printed Materials
Box 8
- Report of the Mechanical Advisory Committee to the Federal Coordinator of Transportation, December 27, 1935
- Public Aids to Transportation (4 volumes)
- Cross Reference sheets