patriarch

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For four generations, the Sartori family of Plymouth, Wis., has been making Asiago cheese in a tradition that dates to patriarch Paolo Sartori, who hailed from a town near Asiago, Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

“Instead of using the fields,” McGahern writes, the aging patriarch “sometimes felt as if the fields had used him.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

“Father Knows Best” aired from 1954 to 1960 — bouncing between networks CBS and NBC — and starred Robert Young as the patriarch of the middle-class Anderson family.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Sir Jonathan plays Solomon Bevan, the patriarch of a farming family and the grandfather of Cefin, the eight-year old boy whose death has sent shockwaves through the town.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Washington was an indisputable American patriarch, but more an actor than a leader, brilliant at striking poses “in a strain of Shakespearean...excellence at dramatic exhibitions.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis