When Jane Frances Pattee was born on 6 August 1860, in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, David Pattee, was 39 and her mother, Frances Parker Richards, was 37. She married George Washington Richards on 5 August 1882. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 10 February 1951, in Houlton, Aroostook, Maine, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Houlton, Aroostook, Maine, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Altered form of French (Nord) Pety: variant of Petit . This surname was brought to North America from England.
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