SATTERLEE, Churchill, clergyman, was born at New Hamburg, NY., April 27, 1867, son of Henry Yates and Jane Lawrence (Churchill) Satterlee. The Satterlee family original came from the parish of Sotterley, Suffolk, England, in 1665, being descended from Benedict Satterlee, vicar of the parish of St. Ide, near Exeter, Devonshire. At the time of the colonial wars a Benedict Satterlee was lieutenant of a Connecticut company, and was killed in the massacre of Wyoming during the revolutionary war; he was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch; from him and his wife Elizabeth Crary the line of descent is trace through their son Samuel and his wife Prudence Rathbone; their son Edward Rathbon and his wife Mary Lausing, and their son Edward and his wife Jane Anna Yates, who were the grandparents of Churchill Satterlee. His father, Henry Yates Satterlee (q.v.), was the first bishop of Washington and the 180th in succession in the American Episcopate. The son was educated at home until twelve years of age, and then entered St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H. He was graduated at Columbia University with the degree of A.B. in 1890, and at the General Technology Seminary, New York, in 1894. His first pastorate was at Lake Placid, N. Y., in 1893, after which he became assistant to Dr. Battershall at St. Peter’s Church, Albany, N. Y. During 1895-1901 he served as rector of Grace Church, Morgantown, N. C., and in the latter year became rector of Trinity Church, Columbia, S. C., where he continued until his death. Mr. Satterlee was a man of broad sympathies, and indomitable worker-and with keen insight into human nature-one who loved humanity and gave himself ungrudgingly for its uplifting He was a member of the B. P. O. E. and of the Columbia Club, and found his favorite recreation in outdoor life. He was twice married: (1) in 1893, to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Humbert, of New York City; she died in 1894, and he was married (2) Nov. 9th, 1898, to Helen Stuyvesant, daughter of George Winthrop Folsom (q. v.), of New York. His children are: Henry Yates, Ethelred Frances and Churchill Satterlee. He died at Columbia, S. C., Feb. 16, 1904.

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. New York: James T. White, 1918. Volume 16, p. 270-271.