Mount Mora Cemetery - Saint Joseph, Missouri

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Record Last Updated On: 4/2/2021
Name: John Patee
Death Date: FEB/13/1868	Interment Date: //		Birth Date: AUG/8/1794
Age at Death: 74	Cause of Death:
Location at Death: St. Joseph, MO
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Sex: M	Nativity: American		Ethnicity: White
Occupation:Hotelier
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Child of: Edmund Patee & Elizabeth Turner
Spouse of: Mary Cone
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Father of: Elijah Cone Patee, Minerva Cone Patee
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Brief Biography: Birth: Aug. 8, 1794 Death: Feb. 13, 1868: Father of the well known Patee family in St. Joseph during the 1850's. The Patee house was built in 1856-1858 and served as the headquarters for the Pony Express from 1860-1861. It is now a National Historic Landmark. The Patee hotel cost $150,000 and had 140 guest rooms. It was the headquarters of the Pony Express in 1860-61. During the Civil War it contained the U.S. Provost Marshal's office, and a recruiting office for the Union Army. In 1865, John Patee was short of cash, and held a lottery/raffle to dispose of the hotel. In order for the raffle to be held, all tickets had to be sold, and John Patee had to purchase the last 100 tickets himself. On April 28, 1865, when the hotel was raffled, John Patee owned the winning ticket, and won back his own hotel. The widow of Jesse James was interviewed in the hotel by the sheriff April 4th, 1882, the day after Jesse James was killed. Patee Hotel 1858-1865, Patee Female College 1865-1868 Patee Hotel (again) 1869-1872 St. Joseph Female College 1875-1880 World's Hotel & Epileptic Sanitorium 1881-1883 R.L. McDonald Factory 1885-1933 Sun Garment Factory 1933-1953 H.D. Lee Co. 1953-1957 Vacant 1957-1963 Patee House Museum 1965-present.
Epithet: John Patee and His Patee House Source: Book--History of St. Joseph, Page 626 The Patee House, one of the most spacious and elegant structures ever erected in the northwest, was built by that enterprising pioneer, John Patee, who settled in St. Joseph in 1845. His farm of 320 acres, which he purchased at the rate of $13 per acre, he afterwards laid out in lots, and to-day (1881) it includes a populous and well-built section of the city, known as Pateetown. The foundation of the Patee House was laid in the fall of 1856. In the fall of 1858, this stately edifice was completed, at a cost of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars and furnished at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. It was first leased, as a hotel, to G. W. Alden, of Philadelphia, for three years, at the rate of $6,000 for the first year, $8,000 for the second and $10,000 for the third year. Before the close of the first year, Alden, failing to make his payments, gave up the house, and was succeeded by Minor, of Chicago, who kept it one year. A man by the name of Espy then kept the house for about two years. He died from the effects of a fall from one of the hotel windows. He was succeeded by Elijah Patee, a son of the owner of the building. Dougherty & Worden afterwards kept the house. The last man to keep a hotel in the building, was James H. Bagwell, who took charge of the same on the burning of the Pacific, in 1868. During the war, the house was raffled off in a lottery and drawn by Mr. John Patee, himself. It was since experienced various fortunes, remaining idle for long periods--then again subserving the purposes of schools and colleges as referred to in our mention of those interests.

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Other Relatives in Plot: Mary Cone Patee (wife), son Elijah Cone Patee and his wife Anna Elizabeth Scott Patee, grandsons: Harry Patee & John S. Patee
Lot Owner: JOHNPATEE
Lot Location: 1 & 4
Block Location: 7
Section/Range Location: 4
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