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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Maritta L. Bessac: Birth: 30 Jun 1847 in Randolph Center Wisconsin.

  2. Henry William Bessac: Birth: 1 Apr 1850 in Randolph Center Wisconsin. Death: 5 Oct 1935 in Palo Alto, CA

  3. John William Bessac: Birth: 30 Sep 1852 in Randolph Center, Wisconsin. Death: 8 May 1891 in Wyocena, Columbia Co.,Wisconsin


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Rebecca Satterlee: Birth: ABT 1859 in Randolph Center, WI.


Notes
a. Note:   Suppossedly the very dark Bessac looks (dark curly hair etc) came in through the mosier line Also there was a thought the Mosiers were Jewish, because Maritta Hammond was so nasy to them was widowed and stranded out there in Wisconsin, so married Dr Satterlee immediately, then died in childbed, her eldest two children were sent out to Hudson NY to live with their widowed grandmother Marittas Hammond Bessac, who then in turn sent Marritta Jane Bessac out to New Orleans to live with relatives there. Dr Satterlee took pity on the youngest John because he was deaf 2nd husband Nathaniel Satterlee Nathan D. Satterlee was b. 5 Apr 1822 in Montgomery County, NY. In 1848 his parents, Nathan L. Satterlee (1782-1854) and Lucy Mallory Satterlee (1792-1858), moved their family to Dodge County, Wisconsin. Nathan D. appears in the 1850 census in Dodge Co., Wis. living with his parents, age 28, a farmer. However, the memorial record of the counties of Faribault, Martin, Watonwan and Jackson, Minnesota, pp. 728-30, has this to say about the career of Nathan D. Satterlee: "The early youth of Dr. Nathan D. Satterlee was quietly passed, unmarked with events of special importance. The public schools afforded him his educational privileges and he lived in New York until after he had attained to his years of maturity. When the time came to make a business choice, he decided upon a professional life work, and took up the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Turner, a prominent physician of New York, with whom he continued his reading for four years, gaining a superior knowledge of the science, which was not entirely theoretical, for he often aided his preceptor in his practice. He opened an office of his own in Lewis County, NY, where he continued his practice only two years, after which he found a field of labor and usefulness in the west, becoming a resident of Columbia County, Wis. He was one of the early physicians of that locality, and his skill and ability soon won recognition in a liberal patronage. In 1874 he removed to La Crosse, Wis., and 4 years later he came to Winnebago City, Minn. Opening an office at this place, he soon built up a good business among the best class of people and ministered to the ills of suffering humanity for five years. On the expiration of that period he returned to La Crosse, having sold out his business in the Gopher State, but after a time he again came to his old home in Winnebago City. He is probably the oldest physician in years of continuous practice in the State, having been a member of the medical fraternity for fifty-two years, during which time he has never engaged in other business enterprises to the exclusion of his chosen life work. In 1855, in Columbia, NY, Dr. Satterlee was united in marriage with Miss Amelia Mosier, a native of NY and a daughter of D. Eli and Sarah (Newberg) Mosier, natives of Connecticut. By this union two daughters were born, Rebecca, now the wife of Charles Holden, who is living in Amboy, Minn.; and Amelia F., one of the most accomplished and proficient teachers of music in the State. In 1861 the Doctor was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died on the 30th of July. Some time after he was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Sarah M. Wilcox, who was born in Oxford, Chenango Co., NY and is a daughter of Asa and Betsy (Barr) Wells, who were natives of Massachusetts and died in Wisconsin. The second Mrs. Satterlee was a cultured lady and her moral worth, her kindness and her devoted life have won her the warm friendship of many. In his political views the Doctor is a stalwart Republican. He is a man of fine physique, six feet in height and weighing 225 lbs. For more than half a century he has devoted his life to the medical profession and his labors in this calling have been prompted by a kind spirit which sympathizes with the suffering as much as by a desire to gain a remuneration. In the sick room he has a pleasant, genial bearing which is of itself a tonic, and this has had much to do with his success. He is now well advanced in life, yet he still practices to a limited extent, for many are loth to give up their old family physician whom they have learned to trust, respect and honor." This document, which is transcribed in Goldie's book (pp. 185-186), is undated, but the statement that the doctor was "well advanced in life" and semi-retired suggests that it was probably written in the 1890's, when he was in his seventies. It implies that his second wife, Sarah (Wells) Wilcox Satterlee, was deceased by that time, since it refers to her in the past tense. I suppose it is possible that he remarried again before his death, to your Mrs. Bessac. However, this record agrees with your information to the extent that his first wife's maiden name was Mosier and his second wife's maiden name was Wells. And he did have a daughter named Rebecca. It appears to me that this written record is the only information, apart from the somewhat contradictory 1850 census data, that Goldie had about Nathan D. Satterlee. I did not transcribe the first half of the record, but it clearly identifies him as the son of Nathan L. and Lucy (Mallory) Satterlee and the grandson of John and Hannah (Hyde) Satterlee. In 1855, in Columbia, NY, Dr. Satterlee was united in marriage with Miss Amelia Mosier, a native of NY and a daughter of D. Eli and Sarah (Newberg) Mosier, natives of Connecticut. By this union two daughters were born, Rebecca, now the wife of Charles Holden, who is living in Amboy, Minn.; and Amelia F., one of the most accomplished and proficient teachers of music in the State. Amanda or Amelia Mosier first husband was Henry Louis Bessac (d. 1854 in Randolph, WI) and had three children with him; Marietta L. Bessac (Alleger), Henry William Bessac and John William Bessac. She died in 1861 in Cambria, Colmbia Co., Wisconsin. Her parents (Eli Mosier and Rebecca F. (not sure who Sarah is) were from Hudson, Columbia, NY (not CT). I wondered what happened to Rebecca and Amelia F. and now I can search. Ah, ha. That's information that Goldie obviously didn't have. What do you want to bet that Amelia/Amanda and Nathan D. were married in Wisconsin? Her first husband died there in 1854 and she married Dr. Satterlee in 1855. The writer of the biographical piece in the county history was just confused because she came from Hudson, NY. Good luck with Rebecca and Amelia. I'd like to know what you find out about them.


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