Gisle M. Lee M. D.

LEE, VENAASS, SEVERSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 11/16/2007 at 22:33:03

Dr. Gisle M. Lee, a successful physician and surgeon living at Thompson, was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, July 10, 1867, a son of John E. J. and Martha (Venaass) Lee, natives of Norway. When sixteen years old the father accompanied his parents to the United States and the family located in Dane county, Wisconsin, where the grandfather of our subject engaged in farming until his death. The mother was brought to Dane county when an infant by her parents, who resided upon a farm there until called by death. Both Mr. and Mrs. John E. J. Lee are buried in the East Koshkonong church cemetery.

Gisle M. Lee attended the common schools and later Luther College at Decorah, Iowa, while his professional education was received in Hush Medical College at Chicago, which conferred upon him the M. D. degree in 1893. In the following year he came to Thompson, which had been founded only two years previously, and was the first physician and surgeon to locate here. He has since continuously engaged in practice and has a high standing among his professional colleagues in the county. Through his membership in the American Medical Association and through wide reading he keeps in touch with the trend of modern practice and he has been very successful in the treatment of disease.

Dr. Lee was married in 1895 to Miss Jessie Seversen, of Cambridge, Wisconsin, and they have four children: Gisle J., who is editor of a newspaper at Sherburn, Minnesota; and Melvin, Evelyn and Mabel, all at home.

Dr. Lee supports the republican party at the polls and has taken quite an active part in public affairs, having been coroner of the county for the last eight years and having also served as mayor of Thompson for one term and as secretary of the school board for eight years. He belongs to the Lutheran church and furthers its work in every way possible. He has thoroughly identified himself with the interests of his community and is deservedly held in high esteem by all who know him.

Source: History of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa, 1917, Vol. II, page 228.