JOEL LEE, farmer; P. O. Blue River; born in Huron Co., Penn., in 1832; son of Vernon and Polly Barton, natives of Pennsylvania; they moved to Illinois in 1839, and located in Kane Co. Mr. Lee came to this State in 1855, and located near where he now lives. Married, in 1857, to Miss Jane Bennett, a native of New York State, by whom he has four sons and five daughters. He bought the farm where he now lives in 1868. Has been Treasurer of Waterstown four years.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.