Lemuel Noyes Pattee (1804 - 1870)
Born "in Massachusetts"; died at Goffstown (NH).
Farmer, teacher, local and state legislator.
Portrait by Adna Tenney; n.d.
Presented to the State, 1883.

Pattee (1804 - 1870) was born "in Massachusetts", but raised and educated at Goffstown (NH). He read law at the Goffstown law office of Judge Charles H. Gove, but Pattee never became a lawyer. Instead he taught school during the winter term and farmed the rest of the year for several years. He married (Vashti Little, of Goffstown) in 1827, and for some years thereafter ran a country store.

In 1842 Pattee campaigned for Register of Probate in Hillsborough County. The county seat was then at Amherst (NH), and when Pattee was elected he moved his family to Amherst. For the next ten years (1842 - 1852) Pattee served as Register of Probate, and as State Representative for Amherst.

Pattee and his family moved to Antrim (NH) in 1855. There he was elected both State Representative and Secretary of State (served June 1855 - June 1858). Pattee was the first popularly elected New Hampshire Secretary of State. He was also a founder of the Republican Party in New Hampshire.

Reference: D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (1885).