C.R. Patterson and Sons

C.R. Patterson and Sons
FormerlyJ. P. Lowe & Company;
C.R. Patterson, Son & Company;
C.R. Patterson and Sons Carriage Company
IndustryAutomotive manufacturing company
Founded1893 (1893)
FounderCharles Richard Patterson
Defunct1939 (1939)
SuccessorGreenfield Bus Body Company;
Gallia Body Company
HeadquartersGreenfield, Ohio, US
Key people
ProductsPatterson-Greenfield automobile

C.R. Patterson and Sons was an American automotive company headquartered in Greenfield, Ohio and for one year in Gallia, Ohio; founded by Charles Richard Patterson.

The Pattersons were the first African Americans to manufacture automobiles, their company manufacturing and marketing the Patterson-Greenfield automobile for model years 1914-17 with overall production reaching 150 — none known to have survived.

As the only known black-owned automakers, founded by a formerly enslaved person, operating during a period of cultural oppression, successful for three generations, Charles Richard Patterson and Frederick Patterson were inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2021.

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