Joseph Daniel Blaney and Harriet Patten

Joseph Daniel² Blaney (James D.¹) was born in Buffalo in 1850, probably shortly after the family's arrival from Canada. No record has been found of his baptism. He was the only boy in the Blaney family to survive into adulthood. He first appeared in the Buffalo City Directory in 1866 at age 16, working as a machinist. In 1888 his employer was given as the LS and MS Railroad. In 1898 his profession was listed as marine engineer. In 1900 he moved to Lockport, but had returned to Buffalo by 1906. He died 10 September 1911 in Buffalo in a railroad accident and is buried in the Carlisle family plot in Holy Cross Cemetery. His sister Alicia left provision in her will for a headstone for his grave.

On 27 December 1887 he married Harriet Patten at Holy Angels Church in Buffalo when both were 35. [1] Joseph's nephew, Richard McGowan, was a witness. Hattie was born in August 1850, the daughter of David Patten, an Irish-born maltster, and Mary Lee. Before her marriage she worked as a music teacher. She was proudly Protestant, but signed the church register promising not to interfere with her husband's religion and to raise any children of their union in the Catholic faith. She apparently did not hold to this promise, as their son Joseph was raised in the Episcopal Church. Both the Blaney and Patten families had high opinions of themselves, and differences on this and matters of religion caused some friction between the families. Hattie died at home at 390 Rhode Island on 25 March 1908 of pernicious anemia, a condition from which she had suffered for a year. Maureen Blaney Pelter recalls being told that her great-grandmother was warned by the doctor that she must eat liver for her health. "Organs are for poor people," she reportedly sniffed. She was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.

Joseph Daniel Blaney and Harriet Patten had the following child:
 

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Joseph Lee Blaney was born in Buffalo in November 1889.

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