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Born 1863, Dane county
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
MARTIN H. LEE (1865) owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 13, Des Moines township, which lies only a short distance to the north of the Jackson depot. He has been a resident of Jackson county ever since he was a baby two years old. He was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, February 8, 1863, the son of Halvor B. and Martha (Hanseti) Lee, pioneer residents of the county.
Martin has grown to manhood in Jackson county. Until he was twenty-one years of age he resided on his father's old homestead in Des Moines township. For several years thereafter he worked out part of the time and farmer rented land part of the time. He bought his present farm in 1802, and has made all the improvements on the place. He is a breeder and raiser of sheep and horses and for the last eleven years has been engaged in buying grain and stock. Since buying his present farm he has resided alternately on it, in Jackson, and on the old homestead. He is the third child in a family of five living. He has never married.
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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