. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. the sons widow, the younger Mrs. Carr, hasremained at the head of the household, the guiding spiritof a true New England country home, taking an interestin all that pertains to the success of the farm work andin the social and educational welfare of the community,to whose progress Mr. Carr himself has been such animportant contributing factor. STEPHEN C. PATTEE, Warner. Stephen C. Pattee of Warner traces his ancestryback directly to Sir William Pattee, physician to Crom-well and King Charles II, who was one of the foundersof the Royal S
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. the sons widow, the younger Mrs. Carr, hasremained at the head of the household, the guiding spiritof a true New England country home, taking an interestin all that pertains to the success of the farm work andin the social and educational welfare of the community,to whose progress Mr. Carr himself has been such animportant contributing factor. STEPHEN C. PATTEE, Warner. Stephen C. Pattee of Warner traces his ancestryback directly to Sir William Pattee, physician to Crom-well and King Charles II, who was one of the foundersof the Royal Society and was knighted in 1660. PeterPattee, a son of William, born in Lansdown, England,in 1648, emigrated to Virginia in 1669, and after re-maining a few years removed to Haverhill, Mass., wherehe married and became the father of a family. His great-grandson, John Pattee, a son of Capt. AsaPattee, settled in Warner about 1786, on the farm whereStephen C. now resides, and known as Maple Grange,and his son, Asa, inherited the place. The latter mar- a\. SteiHex C. Pattee. I08 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. ried Sally, daughter of Stephen Colby, one of the earlysettlers of the town, and their son, Stephen C, the sub-ject of this sketch, ultimately came into possession of thehomestead. Mr. Pattee was born, January ii, 1828. He was ed-ucated in Warner, Contoocook, and Bradford, attendingselect schools in the latter places, and at twenty years ofage commenced teaching school in winter, which busi-ness he followed for twenty winters, in this state andMassachusetts. He has ever since been connected witheducational matters, having served many terms as a mem-ber of the board of education, and having been made oneof the trustees for life, of the Simonds Free HighSchool of Warner, by the will of the donor, the lateFranklin Simonds. The agricultural operations in which Mr. Pattee hasbeen engaged have been varied. Previous to 1862 hepursued mixed farming. He then made fine wool aspecialty, and
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