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CHARLES B. FEE, Georgetown, attorney at law and ex-Mayor of Georgetown, was born in Scott Township, Brown County, Ohio, August 15, 1853. He is a son of Dr. E. B. Fee, Treasurer of Brown County, and a practicing physician in the county for the past forty years. Mr. Fee’s mother was Amanda Blair; both parents are living. Mr. Fee resided on the old homestead in Scott Township till he was sixteen years of age, when he removed to Georgetown. He attended college at Augusta, Ky., one year, and was subsequently placed under the instruction of a private tutor at Cincinnati. He taught school in Brown County about one year, during this time read law, finishing his studies with Devore & Thompson. He subsequently attended the Cincinnati Law School, graduating in 1873. In 1874, he opened a law office in connection with David Thomas, but the firm was discontinued a year later. Mr. Fee then went to Cincinnati, remaining there in the practice of his profession about eighteen months. He then returned to Georgetown and accepted the position of Deputy Treasurer under his father, which position he still holds. He was elected a member of the Village Council in 1879, and the Mayor, J. T. Stevenson, dying three months later, he was elected to fill the vacancy. In 1880, he was re-elected by the people, serving till the spring of 1882. Mr. Fee has met with very fair success in his law practice. He is a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellow and Knights of Pythias Lodges, and has always been a Democrat.