Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Lee, Egbert M. 1835 - 1872 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 28, 2008, 1:30 am Author: Western Historical Society (1879) EGBERT M. LEE (deceased); born in 1835; moved to Wisconsin, and, at an early date, he was engaged in the lumber business, making his headquarters at Minneapolis. At the breaking-out of the rebellion, he held a very important position in the Quartermaster Department, Nashville, Tenn., having several hundred clerks under him. May, 1871, went to Duluth; July, the same year, moved to Minneapolis, and engaged in the lumber business, where he died Jan. 12, 1872. His body was brought to Kenosha for burial. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities. Married, November, 187_ to Miss Carrie Lewis, of Hartford, Conn. Democrat. Additional Comments: Extracted from: THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC., ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN, MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY. MDCCCLXXIX. (1879) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/kenosha/bios/lee527nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb