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Born 1861, Dane county
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
HENRY H. LEE (186.5), Des Moines township farmer, is one of the oldest settlers of that precinct, having resided in Jackson county since he was four years of age. He is the son of Halvor B. and Martha (Hansen) Lee and was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, June 4, 1861. He is next to the eldest of a family of eleven children, of whom the five named are living: Brownell H., Henry H., Martin II., Martinus and Emma (Mrs. Ed. Olson).
Henry accompanied the family to Jackson county when they made the trip by ox. team from Wisconsin in 1865, the date of his arrival to the county being June 18, 1865. On account of Indian alarms the family spent the first four months of their residence in Jackson county in "Fort Belmont." Halvor Lee took as a homestead claim the southwest quarter of section 2, Des Moines township, and upon that farm Henry grew to manhood, residing there continuously until he was twenty-seven years of age. At that age he bought a farm in Belmont township, which he conducted a short time. He sold out in 1899 and moved to Jackson, where for the next two years he engaged in the grain and stock business. Then he bought the old homestead, and with the exception of a short time spent in Jackson, he has resided on the place ever since. During the past ten or eleven years he has been engaged in the stock and grain business as well as farming. Mr. Lee owns a residence in the village of.Jackson. He has held the office of director of school district No. 13 and he and his family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.
Mr. Lee was married in Jackson county September 6, 1891, to Lena Anderson Rod, who was born in Norway May 20, 1875. She is the daughter of Hans Anderson Rod, now a resident of Enterprise township, and Andrena Anderson Rod, deceased. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee. as follows: Mabel A., born July 26, 1892; Emily H., born.January 13, 1894; Agnes.J., born December 1, 1895; Henry O., born February 6, 1898; Hilda:M., born April 26, 1900; Edward J., born June 1, 1903: Eve- Ivn O., born August 28. 1909.
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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