Lee French Revere is living retired in Northford but was for many years actively identi-fied with industrial interests there. He was born in Middlesex county, Virginia. December 8, 1859. a son of Nicholas J. and Henrietta P. (Crittenden) Revere, who were also natives of the Old Dominion. The father was a son of Joseph 0. Revere and a representative of one of the old families of Virginia. He became a joiner and carpenter and spent his entire life in his native state, serving as a member of the Confederate army during the Civil war from 1861 until 1865. At the battle of Chancellorsville he was wounded. Following the war he removed to King and Queen county, Virginia, where he worked at his trade until his demise. His wife was born in that county and there spent her last days.
     Lee F. Revere acquired his education in the schools of King and Queen county, which he attended to the age of fifteen years, when he returned to Middlesex county, where he learned the trade of a wheelwright and blacksmith at Saluda. He afterward followed the trade at Saluda, at Bladeswater and at Frederick City, Virginia, and eventually opened a shop of his own at Millenbeck, in Lancaster county. Virginia, where he remained for fourteen years. In March, 1899, he removed to Northford. New Haven county, Connecticut, and rented the old E. C. Maltby factory, in which be established a blacksmith and wheel shop and eventually purchased the factory building. There he was engaged in blacksrnithing and general repair work until the fall of 1916, when he sold out ami retired. He was accorded a liberal patronage and the extent of his business brought to him a substantial annual income that enabled him to secure a good bank account, so that he is now able to live retired.
     On the 24th of December, 1890, Mr. Revere was married to Miss Frances Jane Stevens of Millenbeck, Virginia, who was born in Northford, Connecticut, but attended boarding school in Virginia, having removed with her parents to Millenbeck. She is a daughter of David and Frances Jane Hart Stevens. Her father was born in the state of New York and in boyhood became a resident of Naugatuck, Connecticut, where he learned the trade of spoonmaking. He afterward followed the trade at Wallingford and at Northford, where he built a factory to manufacture spoons. Eventually he retired and removed to Virginia, where his last days were passed. His wife was born in Wallingford and following the death of her husband in Virginia she returned to Northford, Connecticut, where she passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Revere have been born three children: David S., who was born in Millenbeck, Virginia, and died in Northford; Grace Henrietta, who was born in Millenbeck and is at home; and Lee French, also born in Millenbeck and who is now in the naval reserve at Port Jefferson.
     Politically Mr. Revere is a republican. He was elected to the town school committee and in 1913 he was chosen a member of the state legislature of Connecticut, serving during the sessions of 1914 and 1915, in which he was a member of the committee on rivers, roads and bridges. He is well known as a representative of the Masonic fraternity and is a past master of Corinthian Lodge, No. 103, F. & A. M.; and a past high priest of Lockwood Chapter, No. 148, R. A. M., of Wallingford. He holds membership in the Episcopal church, in which he is serving as vestryman, and in all departments of the church work he is actively and helpfully interested. His has been an upright and honorable life and in all of his dealings he has been straightforward and reliable, so that the most envious cannot grudge him his success.