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Author: Dawn_Maddox_Montgomery
Surnames: Lee, Tracy, McFarren, Kiser, Nutter, Fleming
Classification: biography
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Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana
John W Tyndall for Adams County
O E Lesh for Wells County
The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1918
Page 553 - 554
William A Lee
To the present generation of Wells County at least William A Lee is a citizen too well
known to require any introduction. He has been a resident of the county practically all
his life, has been a farmer, educator, lawyer and deputy prosecutor and represents one of
the old and substantial names of this section of Indiana.
He was born in Nottingham Township August 20, 1855, a son of Alexander and Susanna (Tracy)
Lee. His father was born in Virginia September 5, 1824 and the mother in Perry County,
Ohio in 1828. Alexander Lee settled in Wells County at an early day, and acquired a
substantial property as a farmer and was also honored with the office of county
commissioner and for many years he was a leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Poneto. He was Sunday School superintendent there for over sixteen years. His death
occurred in 1907 and his wife passed away in 1897. They had ten children, six of whom are
still living.
William A Lee spent his boyhood days on a farm, got his education in district schools, and
attended the County Normal at Bluffton. When only seventeen he was granted his first
license as a teacher, and he taught school in this county until 1882. While teaching he
took up the study of law, and for a number of years he also filled the office of justice
of the peace. He has been in active practice since 1898, and has filled the office of
deputy prosecuting attorney since the election of Aaron Waltz to the office of chief
prosecutor. Mr Lee also owns 100 acres of land constituting a good farm, and has many
interests that identify from with the county of his nativity.
On December 29, 1880, he married Miss Emma R McFarren, who was born in Wells County,
youngest sister of the prominent Bluffton business man, George E McFarren. Mr and Mrs Lee
have three children. Carl A, who acquired a good education in the common schools and in a
commercial college, was a teacher but is now a practical farmer. He married Cecile Kiser.
Grace S was a teacher for a number of years and is now the wife of Levi J Nutter. Ralph
C married Grace Fleming and lives in Nottingham Township. Mr William A Lee is an active
democrat and has always been affiliated with the party in his political efforts.
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