British/American journalist, publicist and art critic, active in New York.
By 1835: teacher and principal in St. Luke's School (Hudson St).
1835-43: collaborator for several newspapers, i.a. the Albion.
1843-47: founder/editor of his own weekly, the Anglo-American, a "Journal of Literature, News, Politics, the Drama, Fine Arts, etc.".
Obituary in the NY Sunday Dispatch, 10 Oct 1847: "Mr. A.D. Paterson, editor of the Anglo-American, died yesterday morning. Mr. Paterson was a Scotchman by birth ā a man of genial temperament and fair literary abilities." [1]