C.P. Lee (biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler

C.P. LEE, farmer P.O. Grenola, was born in Essex County, N. Y. in 1844.  In March 1864, he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery and served eighteen months.  In 1870,he emigrated to Kansas, locating in Howard county and took a claim on Section 9, Township 31, Range 9, on a branch of Caney River.  Hunboldt was the nearest railroad point, a distance of nearly eighty-five miles.  The following year, his mother came West and located a claim adjoining her son's, and these two places he had improved.  He has 100 acres under cultivation, the most of the place is under fence, he has planted three acres of timber and a good orchard, put up a good frame house, 18 x 22, and a wing 12 x 30 feet, drawing the lumber eighty-five miles.  He has plenty of running water and good springs on the place, making a very desirable stock farm.  Mr. Lee has been in the stock business the most of the time since he has been here.  He owns mining stock in several Colorado mines.  He has done well here, having made the most of his property since he came.  He is one of the substantial farmers of his town and a man highly respected.  He has served as Clerk of Greenfield Township two terms.  Was burnt out by a prairie fire April 1873.  Horses, hogs, farming implements, house and contents were destroyed.