Biographical Sketch of Alvah Patee, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Alvah Patee, another old settler of St. Joseph, was born August 3,
1804, in Cayuga County, New York, where he was raised.  When young
he located on a farm near Auburn, where he remained up to his six-
teenth year.  His father then bought a farm in Delaware County, Ohio,
and settled there.  Young Alvah assisted his father until 1823, when
he died.  Our subject and his brother Henry took the management of 
the farm, which they worked successfully up to 1860.  Alvah came to
this city in 1860, and engaged in the lightning rod business, which
he extended all over the State of Kansas and the western part of
Missouri and Iowa with such success that he was enabled in 1863 to 
buy one hundred acres of land south of the city limits, located near
King Hill.  Becoming a neighbor of Jac. Madinger, the first wine
grower, he followed his example and advice, and commenced raising
wine.  On March 1, 1881, he rented his wine grove and retired from
the hard work to which his whole life had been devoted.  He was
married in 1824, to Miss Roxinne Smith, of New York.  They had four
children: Eliphalet L., born February 13, 1827; Elmira E., born
February 6, 1832, married first James W. Clayton, in 1851, second
Samuel Russel, February 8, 1869; Armede, born in 1836, died in 1838;
and Althen A., born May 6, 1840, married P. H. Early, in 1866.

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