William W. Pattee

PATTEE, GOULD

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 21:11:04

William W. Pattee was elected recorder of Butler county in the fall of 1878 and again in 1880. He is a native of Iowa City, where he was born November 27, 1851. His father, William Pattee, was auditor of the State of Iowa from 1851 to 1855. He was also for some time editor of the Keokuk “Argus.” The family subsequently removed to Bremer county, where Mr. Pattee, Sr., published for a time the “Bremer County Argus,” at Waverly.
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He is now connected with the State Normal School, at Cedar Falls. William W. Pattee, the subject of this sketch, went to Clarksville in 1871, where he was telegraph operator for the B., C. R. and N. Railroad Company until 1873, when he was transferred to Shell Rock, and served as agent of the railroad company until 1878, when he was elected to the office of county recorder. He has also engaged in a general merchandise business at Allison. His wife was Emma Gould, born at Sheboygan Falls, Wis. They have two children, Annie and an infant daughter. They lost their second child, a son, Bernard.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 295