BIO: James N. Lee, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 358.
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  Lee, James N., was born on June 6, 1836, at Kattelville, town of 
Chenango, Broome County, N.Y. His parents were of New England stock, 
his mother from Connecticut and his father from Lee, Mass., and he was 
the youngest of ten children. His father died when he was in his 
thirteenth year, and he was converted in the fall of that year and at 
once joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. For a number of years after 
his father's death he lived with his mother in the old homestead. He 
was educated at the academy in Binghamton, where he fitted himself for 
teaching, which he followed six or seven years in Broome County. In the 
fall of 1863 he was elected school commissioner in Broome County and 
served three years, after which he was in business one year.
  On June 4, 1867, he married Miss Emma E. White, of Chenango Forks, 
N.Y. Four children have been born to them - Harry W., editor and 
proprietor of the Oneonta Star; E. Gertrude, now living in Bainbridge, 
N.Y.; Cora E., now teaching in Wilkes-Barre; James M., a graduate of 
Wesleyan University, and now professor of natural science in Western 
Reserve Seminary at West Farmington, O.
  On April 5, 1868, he was given a local preacher's license by the 
Chenango Quarterly Conference, and on the 14th of the same month he was 
appointed as junior preacher to Lisle and Whitney's Point. In 1869 he 
joined the Conference, and was appointed to Kirkwood, N.Y.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1869-71, Kirkwood; 1872-74, Maine; 
1875-77, Worcester; 1878-79, Otego; 1880-81, Unadilla; 1882-83, 
Bainbridge; 1884-87, Presiding Elder of Otsego District; 1888-89, 
Montrose; 1890-92, Parrish Street, Wilkes-Barre; 1893-97, Plains; 1898-
1900, Great Bend; 1901-02, Factoryville; 1903, sd.