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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

WALTER A. LEE.
    Walter A. Lee was born October 2, 1857, in England. His parents, William and
Mary (Adams) Lee, also born on the "Merrie isle," had a family of five children.
The father was employed in an official capacity by the British government until
he came to the United States in 1871. He first settled in Homer, Illinois, and
later removed to Bement, that state, where his remaining days were passed.

    Walter A. Lee spent the first fourteen years of his life in .his native
country and pursued a public school education. He then accompanied his parents
to the new world and here he initiated his business career by entering the
railroad service, with the Wabash Railway, as fireman and extra engineer.
Steadily he worked his way upward by reason of his industry and fidelity to the
interests which he served, until various promotions had brought him to the
responsible position of engineer on passenger trains with the St. Louis & South
Western, on the 25th of August, 1885. He continued in that employ to the time of
his death, which occurred March 13, 1912. He was always most careful and
efficient, methodical and systematic in the performance of his tasks and never
did he take any undue risk. His fidelity is indicated in the fact that
throughout his life he remained in the railroad service with two companies.

    In 1881 Mr. Lee was united in marriage to Miss Mary C. Martino, a daughter
of Joseph Martino, who was a resident of the state of Ohio and belonged to one
of the old families there. Mr. and Mrs. Lee had two children, but one is
deceased. The surviving son, Charles E., is now in the employ of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Little Rock. The other son was Walter
Hamilton, who died at the age of twenty years.

    In his political views Mr. Lee was a democrat, always voting for the men and
measures of the party, yet never seeking nor desiring office. Fraternally he was
a Mason and attained the Knights Templar degree of the York Rite, while he was
also identified with the Scottish Rite bodies, and was a Shriner. He enjoyed the
unqualified regard of his brethren of the craft because of his loyalty to its
teachings and its high purposes. He was a prominent member of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. He had many friends in Pine Bluff and this section of the
state, the sterling traits of his character being such as win esteem in every
land and every clime. Mrs. Lee, surviving her husband, now makes her home at No.
602 East Second avenue in Pine Bluff. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lee were members of the
Eastern Star and she is a Maccabee.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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