James Joseph Patterson was the son of the founder of the New York Daily News, and the great-grandson of the owner of the Chicao Tribune (and a Mayor of Chicago); he was born in England but raised in New York.
James J. Patterson was born in England in 1923 and raised in Ossining, New York. He was the only son of Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News, and his wife Mary King. He was the great-grandson of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune and mayor of Chicago. 
