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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 1848his 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, age28, a farmer.However, the memorial record of the counties of Faribault, Martin,Watonwan and Jackson, Minnesota, pp. 728-30, has this to say about thecareer of Nathan D. Satterlee:"The early youth of Dr. Nathan D. Satterlee was quietly passed, unmarkedwith events of special importance. The public schools afforded him hiseducational privileges and he lived in New York until after he hadattained to his years of maturity. When the time came to make a businesschoice, he decided upon a professional life work, and took up the study ofmedicine under the instruction of Dr. Turner, a prominent physician of NewYork, with whom he continued his reading for four years, gaining asuperior knowledge of the science, which was not entirely theoretical, forhe often aided his preceptor in his practice. He opened an office of hisown 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, becominga resident of Columbia County, Wis. He was one of the early physicians ofthat locality, and his skill and ability soon won recognition in a liberalpatronage. In 1874 he removed to La Crosse, Wis., and 4 years later hecame to Winnebago City, Minn. Opening an office at this place, he soonbuilt up a good business among the best class of people and ministered tothe ills of suffering humanity for five years. On the expiration of thatperiod he returned to La Crosse, having sold out his business in theGopher State, but after a time he again came to his old home in WinnebagoCity. He is probably the oldest physician in years of continuous practicein the State, having been a member of the medical fraternity for fifty-twoyears, during which time he has never engaged in other businessenterprises to the exclusion of his chosen life work.In 1855, in Columbia, NY, Dr. Satterlee was united in marriage with MissAmelia 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 ofmusic in the State.In 1861 the Doctor was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who diedon the 30th of July. Some time after he was again married, his secondunion being with Mrs. Sarah M. Wilcox, who was born in Oxford, ChenangoCo., NY and is a daughter of Asa and Betsy (Barr) Wells, who were nativesof Massachusetts and died in Wisconsin. The second Mrs. Satterlee was acultured lady and her moral worth, her kindness and her devoted life havewon her the warm friendship of many.In his political views the Doctor is a stalwart Republican. He is a man offine physique, six feet in height and weighing 225 lbs. For more than halfa century he has devoted his life to the medical profession and his laborsin this calling have been prompted by a kind spirit which sympathizes withthe suffering as much as by a desire to gain a remuneration. In the sickroom he has a pleasant, genial bearing which is of itself a tonic, andthis 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 uptheir old family physician whom they have learned to trust, respect andhonor."This document, which is transcribed in Goldie's book (pp. 185-186), isundated, but the statement that the doctor was "well advanced in life" andsemi-retired suggests that it was probably written in the 1890's, when hewas in his seventies. It implies that his second wife, Sarah (Wells)Wilcox Satterlee, was deceased by that time, since it refers to her in thepast tense. I suppose it is possible that he remarried again before hisdeath, to your Mrs. Bessac. However, this record agrees with yourinformation to the extent that his first wife's maiden name was Mosier andhis second wife's maiden name was Wells. And he did have a daughter namedRebecca.It appears to me that this written record is the only information, apartfrom the somewhat contradictory 1850 census data, that Goldie had aboutNathan 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 withMiss Amelia Mosier, a native of NY and a daughter of D. Eli and Sarah(Newberg) Mosier, natives of Connecticut. By this union two daughters wereborn, Rebecca, now the wife of Charles Holden, who is living in Amboy,Minn.; and Amelia F., one of the most accomplished and proficient teachersof music in the State.Amanda or Amelia Mosier first husband was Henry Louis Bessac (d. 1854 inRandolph, WI) and had three children with him; Marietta L. Bessac(Alleger), Henry William Bessac and John William Bessac. She died in 1861in 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 inWisconsin? Her first husband died there in 1854 and she married Dr.Satterlee in 1855. The writer of the biographical piece in the countyhistory was just confused because she came from Hudson, NY.Good luck with Rebecca and Amelia. I'd like to know what you find outabout them.
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