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James F. Lee was born in Jefferson County, Mo., about 1836, and is a son of Israel and Nellie (Allen) Lee. Israel Lee, a blacksmith and wagon-maker by trade, was a son of Josiah Lee, who died in Illinois about 1846, at the age of eighty years. Israel Lee died in 1857, at the age of fifty-four years. James T. Lee was reared on the farm, learned the blacksmith’s trade, and began life for himself when twenty years of age with $1,000 worth of property, which he has more than trebled by his industry and good management. He owns a well-improved farm, where he resides, of 227 1/2 acres. He was married, in 1857, to Miss Jane Wilson, who bore him two children: Silas and Emma. Mr. Lee subsequently married Mrs. Iman, nee Martha Withington, who died April 26, 1874, leaving two children, John and William. In 1879 Mr. Lee married Fannie Williams, a native of Jefferson County, Mo. One child blessed this marriage. Mr. Lee is a Democrat in politics. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Tenth Missouri Cavalry, two months later was transferred to the infantry, and about a year later was given charge of a Confederate States army blacksmith shop, where he worked until June, 1865.