The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 512

PETER PATNODE.

Washington had long been settled and various natural resources of the state
developed before it was recognized that it might become a rich agricultural
district. There were great stretches of land covered only with sagebrush and it
was believed that the desert could not be developed. Men of vision and of
enterprise, however, took up the task and demonstrated the possibilities for
successful farming and fruit raising in various sections of the state, including
the great Yakima valley. Among the number now wisely, carefully and profitably
engaged in farming on the Moxee is Peter Patricide, who purchased a tract of
land of twenty-six acres, most of which was wild, and began its development.
That he has accomplished splendid results is indicated in the fine appearance of
his place. Mr. Patnode was born at Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, September 8, 1872,
a son of Moses and Philamene Patnode, who were natives of Canada and removed to
Minnesota as a part of the first French settlement in that state. There they
continued to reside throughout their remaining days and the father successfully
followed farming.

In the year 1901, Peter Patnode, then a young man of about twenty-nine years,
who had been reared and educated in Minnesota, came to Yakima county and
purchased twenty acres of land near Moxee City. It was a wild tract covered
with sagebrush, and he was one of the first of the French colony to locate here.
With characteristic energy he began the development and improvement of his land,
which he carefully and successfully cultivated until 1911. He then purchased
twenty-six acres by the Selah-Moxee canal, most of which was also wild. His
previous experience enabled him to know just how to go about its development
and soon his labors wrought a marked transformation in the appearance of the
place. The property is now highly cultivated in the production of hay, hops and
potatoes and each year he gathers good crops. In the midst of his farm he has
erected an attractive and substantial residence and he has added many modern
improvements to his place, success attending him as the years have gone by.

In 1898 Mr. Patnode was married to Miss Antonia Brulotte and their children are
Moses, Elvina, Leah. Florine, Amie, Doris and Eli, all yet at home. The parents
and children are members of the Holy Rosary Catholic church at Moxee City and
Mr. Patnode gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He has never
had occasion to regret his determination to come from the Mississippi valley to
the Pacific coast. for here he found good opportunities and in their utilization
has worked his way steadily upward until he is now in affluent circumstances and
is a creditable representative of that class of men who have done so much to
develop the agricultural interests and thus enhance the prosperity of the Yakima
valley.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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