Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....McGEE, John P. 1839 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 3, 2007, 1:36 am Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899) JOHN P. McGEE, who was for many years a prominent hotel proprietor at Satterfield, Pennsylvania, was born in Towanda, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1839. His parents: Patrick and Sarah (Quinn) McGee, were natives of county Antrim, Ireland, and came to New York when young people. They formed an acquaintanceship and were married in New York, going from there to Montrose, Pennsylvania, and subsequently to Towanda. In 1845 they removed to Sullivan county and settled on the present site of Satterfield, which was then a wilderness. Mr. McGee purchased fifty acres of land, some years later adding fifty acres more, for which he paid a dollar and a half an acre. A clearing was made in the woods, a log cabin built, and with their little family the young couple began their pioneer life. The father was a stone-mason by trade, but made a successful farmer, and before his death had seen his property develop into a fine farm. He died August 31, 1863, at the age of sixty-two years, his wife having passed away July 14, 1860, when forty-seven years of age. They had a large family of children, as follows: Mary A., married Michael Quinn, and is deceased; Enos lives at Bernice, Pennsylvania; Jane is deceased; John P., subject of this sketch; Sarah married Michael Coley, and is deceased; James lives in Bradford county, Pennsylvania; Catherine married Edward McCarty; Peter, deceased; Henry, deceased; Ellen married John McGraw, and is deceased; Robert, whose sketch will be found on another page, lives at Dushore. Our subject came with his parents to Sullivan county in 1845, and at the early age of thirteen years began working among the lumbermen and farmers, and in mines. In 1892 he built the hotel at Satterfield, which stands twenty-two hundred feet above sea level, and this he carried on until 1896, when his son assumed charge of the business. He was a popular landlord, and is well known and respected throughout the community. He has served as road commissioner and school director, and is a member of the Catholic church. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. McGee was married September 17, 1865, at Dushore, to Miss Margaret Minor, who was born in Cherry township, April 9, 1840, and died November 29, 1890, aged forty-eight years. She was a daughter of John and Mary (Coyle) Minor, both natives of Ireland. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McGee were as follows: James married Miss Mary Gilligan, and lives in Lopez, Pennsylvania; Patrick F. married Miss Mary Goff, and is landlord of the Satterfield Hotel; John lives at Sayre, Pennsylvania; Mary resides at Towanda, Pennsylvania; Sarah resides at Bernice, Pennsylvania; William lives at home; Anna and Margaret are deceased. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania by Thomas J. Ingham Compendium of Biography The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago: 1899 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb