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D. L. Lee


CENTENNIAL HISTORY

Troy, Piqua, and Miami County, Ohio by Harbaugh 1909  p, 550

 

  D. L. Lee, United States storekeeper located at Troy, Ohio, was born in this city in 1843, a son of the late A. J. Lee, who was born in Virginia, of the celebrated family of that name and came as an early settler to Miami County.

D. L. Lee was educated in the district schools of Miami County, and had scarcely left school when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, in which he remained from November, 1861, until its close.  He entered Company E, Seventy first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and was mustered out with the rank of sergeant.  After taking part in the battle of Shiloh, he participated in the arduous campaign through Tennessee and Georgia and was on every noted battlefield where his regiment was engaged until the battle of Nashville, when he was so severely wounded that it was found necessary to amputate his left leg, the operation being performed in a field hospital. On one occasion he was captured by a band of guerillas, six companies being forced to surrender to Colonel Mason, at Clarksville, but he was paroled forty hours later.  There were few hardships of war that Mr. Lee escaped, the entire record of this service being one to reflect honor on his name as a soldier.

After his honorable discharge in April, 1865, Mr. Lee returned to Troy, where he learned jewelry trade and worked at it for two years. He then received his appointment to the United States Revenue department and served six years.  In the fall of 1873 he was elected sheriff of Miami County and served two terms, being re-elected in 1875.  After that he was engaged in business for several years in Kansas City, and after he came back to Troy conducted a grocery enterprise for six years.  Then under the administration of President Harrison, he was connected with the revenue service again for four years.  Following this came four years as township clerk, when he was again appointed to the revenue service and has been an efficient officer in the same ever since.

In 1868, Mr. Lee was married to Miss Elizabeth Clyde, daughter to George C. Clyde, who was a pioneer of Troy.  Mrs. Lee died in 1905, leaving two sons; Harry, who is connected with the C. U. Telephone Company, at Indianapolis; and Fred, who is with the firm of Long & Knight, of Troy.  Mr. Lee is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  He has been secretary and treasurer of the Seventy-First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Association, for a number of  years, belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and also is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and has been treasurer of both these organizations for a long time.

 

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