BIO:  George C. Lee, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 178

GEORGE C. LEE, a farmer in Shrewsbury Township, was born in Baltimore City, in 1851.  
His parents, John and Elizabeth (Carty) Lee, natives of England and Maryland, had 
four children, of whom two died very young.  Of the remaining two George C. is the 
youngest.  His education he received partly in Baltimore, where he remained until 
seventeen years of age, and in Shrewsbury Township.  In 1868 he came to York County, 
where he has since resided, following farming.  His parents are both dead; the 
father died in 1851, before subject was born, and the mother died in 1872, in 
Shrewsbury Township.  March 1, 1877, he was married in New Freedom, to Isabel 
Hedrick, daughter of George W. Hedrick, of Baltimore County, and of German descent.  
They have three children:  Annie Elsie, Maude Elizabeth and Lawrence Ray.  In 1881 
he removed to his present farm in Shrewsbury Township, containing 170 acres, to the 
cultivation of which he devotes his whole time.  Mr. and Mrs. Lee are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.