Wilson H. Lee is actively identified with printing and publishing interests in New Haven, in which channel he has directed his labors since his initial step in the business world was made on attaining his majority. This constitutes but one phase of his very active and purposeful life, however, for he figures prominently as well in financial circles and stands as a leading representative of modern scientific agriculture. He was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, May 3, 1852, a son of Joseph and Sarah Adele Lee. The ancestral history of the family can be traced back to John Lee, who settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1634. His public school education acquired at Athol, Massachusetts, Wilson H. Lee entered upon a term's study in the New Salem Academy and when twenty-one years of age became an employee of a Boston company engaged in the publication of directories. His identification with the publishing business as a proprietor dates from 1876 and with the printing business from 1884, and that he has largely concentrated his attention upon this branch of industrial activity is indicated in the fact that he is now president and treasurer of the Price & Lee Company, directory publishers of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey, and also president and treasurer of the book and job printing and bindery business con-ducted under the name of the Wilson H. Lee Company. However, other activities have furnished a field for the expansion of his business powers and such is his force of char-acter and persistency of purpose that he carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. In 1902 he turned his attention to the dairy business as proprietor of the Fairlea Farm at Orange, Connecticut, and he is also the secretary and treasurer of the Connecticut Hassam Paving Company, while in financial circles he is widely known as a director of the Yale National Bank and as a trustee of the Connecticut Savings Bank and the Orange Bank & Trust Company. He is likewise a director of the New Haven Morris Plan Company. His keen discrimination enables him to readily understand the possibilities of a business and to correctly balance its opportunities for success against its chances of failure. While there has been nothing spectacular in his career, it has been equally free from those erractic movements which frequently result in unwarranted risks. In a word, his has been the steady progression of one sure of himself and stable in his purposes.

On the 1st of February, 1875. Mr. Lee was married to Miss Orrianna L. Lewis, of Athol, Massachusetts, and they have a daughter, Prudence Adele, the wife of John R. Demarest of New Haven. Mr. Lee is identified with many organized interests formed for the benefit of business conditions, for the advancement of the public welfare or for the enjoyment of the social amenities of life. In 1917 he was appointed chairman of the New Haven County Auxiliary of the Connecticut State Council of Defense and discharges his important duties in this connection with the utmost faithfulness and fidelity. In club circles his name appears on the membership rolls of the Union League and the Quinnipiac Clubs of New Haven, the Pequoig Club of Athol, Massachusetts, and the Essex Club of Newark, New Jersey. He is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and is prominent in the Sons of the American Revolution, having been chosen president of the state organization of Connecticut for the year 1913-14. He belongs to the American Directory Publishers Association, of which he was president from 1905 until 1908, and he is connected with the United Typothetæ of America, of which he was president in 1910 and 1911 and a member and chairman of its executive committee for many years. He likewise has membership in the Connecticut Typothetæ, of which he was president from 1899 until 1908. He has also been president of the Worcester Northwestern Agricultural Society and in 1909 and 1910 was president of the Connecticut Dairymen's Association and for three years was vice president of the Connecticut state board of agriculture. In 1916 and 1917 he was also president of the Certified Milk Producers' Association of America. He has been honored with the presidency of the New Haven County Improvement League and with the vice presidency of the Civic Association of New Haven. He was president of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce in 1903-04 and was police commissioner of New Haven for four years. His co-operation can be secured along all those lines which result in usefulness and progress. Advancement has ever been his watchword and the passing years have marked improvement in every line of business or every organization in which he has been an active worker.