Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889 [page 543] H. K. LEE, an enterprising and reliable farmer of Silver Township, came from Blue Earth, Minnesota, to Cherokee County in 1879. He was born in Columbia County, Wisconsin, October 21, 1854, and is a son of OLIVER and LIBBIE (HOWARD) LEE, natives of New York and Vermont respectively. The parents now reside in Dane County, Wis- consin. H. K. was reared in the county in which he was born; he passed his youth in farm work, and attended the common schools. In 1872 he came to Iowa, and afterward went to Minnesota. The spirit of youth was still restless within him, and he made sev- eral changes, both in his location and occupation, before he was satisfied. He spent some time in the pine woods of Minnesota, and in 1879 bought his present farm of 160 acres. The place had been improved by THOMAS HARDEN, so that Mr. LEE had not the task of the pioneer. There is a good house, a barn, granary and cribs, and four acres of beautiful grove. Mr. LEE was united in marriage, in March, 1883, to Miss ANNIE PENNINGTON, a daughter of JESSE PENNINGTON, deceased, who was a well-known resident of the township. Two children have been born of this union: RUTH and an infant son. Politically Mr. LEE is an Independent. He is a member of Finboy Lodge, No. 490, I.O.O.F. He is a man strictly honest in business, and is worthy of the confidence in which he is held. ===========================================================================