Charles Henry Lee

Birth Date

1818-06-20

Death Date

1891-12-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bracken County, Kentucky, attorney. Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts, native. Son of Charles Lee and Sarah Hobart Lee. Married to Caroline Dudley Lee in 1843. Father of Aurora Lee and Charles H. Lee. Married to Martha S. Thomas Lee in Bracken County on January 3, 1853. Married to Julia A. Ball Lee in Leverett, Massachusetts on November 21, 1859. Father of George Dudley Lee and Fannie S. Lee. Attended Chester Academy. Attended Uxbridge Academy in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Teacher in New Jersey in 1841. Teacher in Mason County, Kentucky, from 1841 to 1845. Surveyor in Bracken County. Farmer in Bracken County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1853. County judge of Bracken County from 1857 to 1861. Attorney in Pendleton County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, pp. 438B-439A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bracken County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 371 Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, page 250 of 828 on Microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "Charles H. Lee (1818-1891)," Memorial #54424197, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54424197/charles-h-lee (accessed June 15, 2018). W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 7th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 884. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 598.

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