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Patrick Dee

Generation 5 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Gregory James Leineweber ← John James Leineweber ← Ambrose Patrick Dee ← Patrick J Dee ← Patrick Dee

In brief

1820s–1840s

Born in Ireland sometime between about 1820 and 1828. Came to Syracuse, New York, about 1850.

1850s

Declared his intention to become a citizen in 1853. A salt boiler in Syracuse's First Ward, married to Johanna Ryan. Bought property in Salina in 1858. Children David, Bridget, Margaret, Mary, and Patrick J. (1859) were born.

1860s–1870s

Lived at 102 Free Street from about 1857 and worked as a laborer and salt boiler. Bought Fine Salt Lot 79 on the canal in 1865 but lost it at a sheriff's sale in 1878. Died of scalds from a salt boiler on 18 October 1879.

Family

Spouse
Johanna Ryan

Children

  • David James Dee
    b. c. 1852, in Onondaga County, New York, USA
    m. Catherine Ford
    d. September 8, 1927, at home in Syracuse, New York, USA
  • Bridget “Mother Mary Rose” Dee
    b. Abt. 1854 in Onondaga County, New York, USA
    d. January 13, 1914, in St. Peter’s Convent, South Troy, New York
  • Margaret Dee
    b. Abt. 1856 in Onondaga County, New York, USA
    d. July 11, 1916, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, New York
  • Mary Dee
    b. c. 1857, in Onondaga County, New York, USA
    m. Dennis Heaphy
    d. January 17, 1895
  • Patrick J Dee · in this line
    b. September 16, 1859 · Onondaga County, New York; baptized at St. John the Baptist Church, Syracuse
    m. Julia A Hogan, June 8, 1892, at St. John the Baptist Church in Syracuse, NY
    d. May 4, 1921 · home in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York
  • Bernard J/Bryan Dee
    b. c. 1862, in Onondaga County, New York, USA
    d. January 4, 1917, in Newark, Wayne County, New York
  • Anna/Annie F/Johanna Dee
    b. c. 1864, in Onondaga County, New York, USA
    d. January 2, 1902
  • William J Dee
    b. Abt. 1877 in New York, USA
    d. March 21, 1899, in Syracuse, New York
  • Daniel Dee

Life story

The Salt Boiler

Patrick Dee was born in Ireland, sometime between about 1820 and 1828 by the varying records, and came to Syracuse, New York, around 1850. On January 25, 1853, he filed his declaration of intent to become a citizen. For most of his working life he was a salt boiler, boiling down brine from the Onondaga salt springs, with stretches as a day laborer in between. In March 1857 he was arrested for drunkenness and let go after paying a fine.

Patrick married Johanna Ryan, and they raised a large family in Syracuse's First Ward: David, Bridget (who became a nun, Mother Mary Rose), Margaret, Mary, Patrick J. (Meghan's 2x-great-grandfather, born in 1859), Bernard, Anna, William, and Daniel. In 1858 Patrick bought the north half of a lot in Block 16 in the old village of Salina for $900, and from about 1857 the family lived at 102 Free Street. By 1870 the property was valued at $1,200. In 1865 he paid $600 for Fine Salt Lot 79 on the Salt Spring Reservation, which ran from Free Street back to the Cut Canal, and in 1877 he was listed in salt manufacturing at the corner of Free and Spring Streets. In 1878 a lawsuit brought by Charles A. Stillwell against Patrick, Johanna, the Salt Company of Onondaga, and others ended with the sheriff auctioning the salt lot for $500.

Patrick's trade killed him. On October 18, 1879, he died in the First Ward of scalds he had suffered at a salt boiler. His son Patrick J. later became a Syracuse fireman.

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