George W. Patterson, attorney at law and court stenographer for the second judicial district of Wyoming, has been a resident of Laramie for almost twenty years and has become most widely and favorably known during this period. He was born in Fort Collins. Colorado, July 21, 1880, an only son in the family of Arthur H. and Marion (Watrous) Patterson. His parents were early settlers of that section of Colorado. The father was one of the three landowners who donated the site for the Colorado State Agricultural School and his old homestead is now the site of the main building of that institution.
    George W. Patterson was reared at Fort Collins and acquired his early education in the schools there. In August, 1899, he came to Laramie, where he concluded his literary studies by attending the University of Wyoming for five years. He had taken a course in shorthand at the Colorado State Agricultural School, supplemented by additional instruction in stenography through correspondence schools as well as home study, so that when appointed court stenographer on the 1^st of October, 1905, he was fully capable of filling the important position, in which he has since continued. He ranks today as one of the most competent and efficient men in his line in the state. He has always been a close student, possesses notable energy and laudable ambition and has thereby from time to time given his leisure to preparation for the practice of law. He pursued the course of the Blackstone Law School in Chicago and in April, 1918, was admitted to the bar.
    On the 3d of October, 1906, in Laramie, Mr. Patterson was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy Reed, a daughter of W. H. Reed, at one time paleontologist of the University of Wyoming. Mrs. Patterson was graduated from the University of Wyoming in the class of 1904 and later successfully taught school, becoming principal of the schools at Meeteetse, Wyoming, while for a period she also taught in the schools of Cheyenne.
    In politics Mr. Patterson is a stanch democrat and takes a keen interest in the success and growth of his party. He is a valued citizen of Laramie, with great faith in its future, and has whenever opportunity offered made investment in real estate and has built four attractive residences in this city, three of which he has sold. He has a host of friends here–friends who admire him greatly by reason of his cordial manner, his clean life, his uniform courtesy and his uprightness of character.