Lee, James

LEE, NASH, MCKEE, MILLS, DAUGHERTY, SNOOK

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 11/27/2012 at 08:58:33

Lee, James - Farmer and stock-raiser, section 4, P. O. Brooklyn. Was born August 22, 1818, in Hampshire county, Virginia, and when young went with his parents to Licking county, Ohio. There attended school in Granville a part of the time. Worked at farming, teaming and driving stage for a living, leaving home when thirteen years old with only twenty-five cents in his possession. He continued in various lines of business till sixteen years old, then learned the cabinet trade and worked at the same and other branches of mechanical work till 1856, when he came to Iowa and engaged extensively in farming and stock-raising, where he now lives and owns 720 acres of land, nearly all improve. Mr. Lee was first lieutenant three years and captain four years in an independent company in Ohio. In 1844 he was a delegate to the Buffalo Free Soil convention, taking a leading part in that movement. He has never been sick but two and a half days in his life. His grandfather, Stephen Lee, a half-brother to Richard Henry Lee, was a captain under Washington and Lee for seven years; was never sick a day in his life and died at the age of ninety-five. The subject of this sketch was married September 23, 1840, in Utica, Ohio, to Miss Ann M. Nash, who was born in Pennsylvania, December 16, 1820, and they have ten children, as follows: Ellen (Born October 18, 1842; now the wife of Wm. Daugherty, of this county, Ann M. (born May 5, 1845; now the wife of John M. Mills of Scott township), Richard H. (born August 25, 1847; married and lives in Jefferson township), James C. (born March 25, 1850; married and lives in Wisconsin), Amanda (born November 25, 1851; now the wife of Robert McKee, of Brooklyn), Virgil (born May 13, 1855; married and lives in Carroll county, Iowa), Mary B. (born October 17, 1857; now the wife of Henry Snook, of Warren township), Homer (born December 19, 1859), Sicha A. (born December 1, 1862), Icy May (born June 8, 1864).

"The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa"
Published by Des Moines, Union Historical Co.,
Birdsdall, Williams & Co. 1880