"History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.'s, Indiana"
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884


HENRY LEE, a native Hoosier, was born December 4, 1831, in Orange County,
the second son of Isaac and Dorothy (Letherman) Lee, who were natives
respectively of Kentucky and Mississippi, the former settling in Orange
County in 1814, two years before Indiana became a State. Until attaining
his majority the subject of this biography lived with his parents, during
which time he received a common school education. At eighteen he began the
wagon-maker's trade, at which he has worked the greater part of his life.
August, 1862, at one of the darkest periods in the history of the late war,
he volunteered in Company A, Sixty-sixth Indiana Regiment, and after
participating in numerous hot battles and wearisome campaigns he was
honorably discharged June 3, 1865. In the battle at Richmond, Ky., he
received a severe gun-shot wound in the right wrist. For the past two years
Mr. Lee has been engaged in farming, and is the owner of 247 acres of good
land (Bono Township, Lawrence County, Ind.). To his marriage with Miss
Nancy J., daughter of Thomas S. and Nancy (Farmer) Smith, eight children
have been born, named Andrew J., Nancy W., Sarah E., Mary E., Dorothy A.,
Lydia E., Eliza J. and one that died in infancy unnamed. Mr. Lee is a
Democrat and is now serving his fifth term of Township assessor. He and
wife belong to the Christian Church.


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