Morehead Patterson (October 9, 1897 – August 5, 1962) was an American businessman, a diplomat, an inventor, and president, CEO and chairman of American Machine and Foundry, the company founded by his father Rufus Patterson.
Patterson was born in Durham, North Carolina on October 9, 1897 but his family moved to New York City in 1899.
[6] His maternal grandparents were Lucy Cornelia Lathrop and Robert Lindsay Morehead (the youngest son of North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead of Blandwood).
[2] In 1941, his father retired as president of AMF and became chairman of the board of directors.
[17] After her death in 1955, he married Margaret Morgan (née Tilt) Jacob (1903–1996), the former wife of Dr. Arthur D. Bissell and Walter Phelps Jacob who was a daughter of automaker and Diamond T founder Charles Arthur Tilt and Agnes Josephine (née Morgan) Tilt,[18] in 1956.