Charles Richard Patterson
The Patterson’s of Greenfield, Ohio, were an African-American
family who, beginning in 1915, manufactured automobiles, buses, and trucks.
They called their line the ‘Patterson-Greenfield’ and produced vehicles until
the 1930s, when they could no longer compete with the large Detroit companies.
The family was established by Charles Richard Patterson, a
blacksmith who escaped from slavery in West Virginia just before the Civil War
by running away to freedom in Ohio. He bought into a blacksmith business, took
it over, and founded the Charles R. Patterson Carriage Co. which built various
horse-drawn vehicles beginning in the 1860s.
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