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Marion published the Elk River News in Minneapolis for several momths in 1879. He operated a job printing plant in Minneapolis for several years, and then founded the Atwater Republican in 1897. He apparently was also involved in some way with the Annandale (Minn.) Advocate. In 1907 he moved back to Minneapolis (from Annandale, I presume) and was with the Fisher Paper Box Co. until 1919.
This information is on p. 88 of Goldie's Vol. II. I guess John didn't send you all the pages that relate to Uncle Wilson's family. I'm going to scan and e-mail these to you, including the group photo that was taken in 1890, although I'm not sure how well it will come out. But there are numbers and names so you can identify the people, even if you can't really see what they looked like.
The printing and publishing business does run in the family. John's father, my great-uncle Herbert Bird Satterlee, was a printer and taught at what is now North Dakota State College of Science at Wahpeton for many years. Residence halls at the college are named for Uncle Herbert and also for his (and my grandfather's) good friend and colleague, Frank McMahon. John himself has been a printer, journalist and photographer all his life.
I believe Goldie had contacted my mother, Henrietta Satterlee Misbach, before Mama moved to San Diego to be near my family in 1966. Goldie was living in Perris or Hemet, I forget which, at that time, and they got together in person several times. I remember Goldie being at the wedding of my first cousin, Virginia Satterlee, in the early 1970s in Gardena. Mama made sure to get a copy of each of Goldie's books as they were printed, so that's why I have everything up to the time of Mama's death in 1982. After that I'm afraid I lost touch with Goldie. That's why John has the later (c. 1983?) edition of Vol. II, which I never knew about until I got together with him in recent years.
I didn't really get interested in this until the last 10 years or so, when these genealogy bulletin boards became available and I realized I had the answers to a lot of people's questions. I've dabbled a bit in original research in my travels, but mostly I just use Goldie's work to answer questions. So everybody thinks I'm this great expert genealogist <G>.
Goldie continued working on the genealogy into the early 1990s. The first three volumes are the descendants of A-3 Nicholas, which include you and me. The fourth volume, published in 1986 and revised and reprinted in 1993, covers the descendants of A-1 William and A-6 Benedict, older and younger brothers of Nicholas. Most of the famous Satterlees are descendants of Benedict, including Henry Yates Satterlee, the first bishop of the National Episcopal Cathedral in Washington DC, and Herbert Livingston Satterlee, who was J.P. Morgan's private secretary and son-in-law. Of course, we can claim Admiral Pye on the Nicholas line!
Goldie was overtaken by Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. The folks at the historical center in Wellsboro, PA, where Goldie had promised to leave her records, tell me that she was already starting to lose it when she visited them in 1989. In 1995 her fourth husband, Bill Fowler, died, and she went to live with a distant cousin, Ward Monroe Satterlee, in Spencer, SD. Ward and his wife realized that her condition was such that they could not care for her at home, and they got her into a nursing home in Bridgewater, SD, where she died in January 2001. All of Goldie's research records were stored in the garage at Ward's home, which was totally destroyed in the 1998 Spencer, SD tornado. The family salvaged a box of miscellaneous papers, photos, etc. from the debris, and it is in the custody of Bill Satterlee of www.satterlee.org. Several bound copies of Vol. IV also survived; Ward's daughter-in-law sent them to me, and I have distributed them among researchers who convinced me they were descendants of William or Benedict, except for one copy I kept for myself.
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