HENRY R. LEE
Henry R. Lee was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, September 12, 1846. His father, Rev. Charles Lee, an ordained Presbyterian minister, moved to Indiana, where he preached. He died at Hanover, Indiana, May 27, 1863. His widow, Minerva R. (Home) Lee, died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, April 23, 1871. Henry R. Lee lived with his parents until seventeen years of age, then came to Iowa and engaged in farming in Henry county, remaining there until 1873. In that year he came to Cass county and settled at once on his present farm. It consisted of one hundred and twenty acres of unimproved land, which his father had owned since 1855, located in section 20, of Bear Grove township. He has since added eighty acres to the original tract. He was married May 22, 1878, to Mahala G. Wells, who was born in Steuben county, New York, September 12, 1850. They have three children--Charles W., born in June 1879; Maud F., born December 1881, and Baby, born August 1884.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 728-729.
