LEE, FRANCIS

LEE, PRATT

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 09:00:32

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

FRANCIS LEE, druggist and dealer in fancy goods, corner Second street and Fifth avenue; a native of Onondaga Co., N. Y. ; after reaching manhood, he came to Iowa, in the spring of 1856; located in Clinton Co., and engaged in buying lots and building; on the 1st of January, 1860, he engaged in the drug trade in the same building, and in the same location he now occupies; it was built by Ward & Taylor in 1857; they established the business in the spring of 1858, and, two years later, Mr. Lee succeeded them; it is the oldest and best-known drug-house in the county. When Mr. Lee first came to his present location, the business part of Clinton was on Front street and his was the only business house for several years on the corner of Fifth avenue and Second street, which is now the business center of the city. Mr. Lee has held town and school offices. He married Mrs. Mary Pratt, a native of Massachusetts; of six children, only two daughters survive.