Lee, John C.

LEE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/6/2009 at 14:20:46

John C. Lee

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.37, Council Bluffs)
John C. Lee, contractor, Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in 1871, and engaged in business here in 1874. He was born in Canada in 1845, and lived there till he came to Council Bluffs. He is a railroad contractor, and has worked on several of the railroads centering here. In 1878, he married Miss Anna Leonard, whose parents reside on a farm near Neola, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have one child living - Mary, fifteen months old. Mr. Lee's parents still living in Lanark County, Canada. His grandfather, Martin Condred, was a soldier in the French Army under Napoleon; crossed the Alps with hima, and was with him at Waterloo.