Henry Lee Jr. (1817 - 1898)

Born 2 Sep 1817 in Boston, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Died 24 Nov 1898 at age 81 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Henry was born in 1817, Boston. He is the son of Henry Lee and Mary Jackson. He graduated from Harvard College in 1836. He was in the Banking business and became the manager of the Union Safe Deposit Vaults owned by Lee, Higginson & Company. He married Elizabeth Cabot in 1845, in Boston. They had seven children over 17 years. He died in 1898, in Brookline, at the age of 81, and is buried there.

He was a member of Governor Andrews’ staff during the Civil War. He supported Gov. Andrews’ opposition to General Butler when Butler was raising troops in Massachusetts, independent of state authorities. He wrote “The Militia of the United States: What it has been and what it should be”.

Sources

Massachusetts State Census 1855, 1865; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988; North America Family Histories, 1500-2000;

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQS-SB1 : 12 April 2016), Henry Lee, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 167, family 1185, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,133.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK2-LZ16 : 13 December 2015), Henry Lee, 1898; Burial, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States of America, Walnut Hills Cemetery; citing record ID 47715701, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW1Q-2MT : 10 December 2014), Henry Lee in entry for Elizabeth Perkins Lee, 24 Feb 1909; citing Brookline,,Massachusetts, 232, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,257,990.

• Stanley Wood, firsthand knowledge