History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol.  V, p. 138
Franklin County

     HARRISON LEE, the present County Tax Commissioner of Franklin
County, has lived most of his life in and around Frankfort and has had a
busy career as a farmer, a business man and public official.
     Mr. Lee was born near Greeneville in Eastern Tennessee September
22, 1876.  His paternal ancestors were English and colonial settlers in
Virginia.  His father, T. L. Lee was born at Louisville, Kentucky in
1852, but grew up and married near Greenville, Tennessee, was a farmer
there and also served as deputy sheriff.  In 1882 he removed to Franklin
County, Kentucky, and for nearly forty years has been a farmer in the
vicinity of Peaks Mill in Franklin County.  He served four years as a
constable of the county, was a stanch democrat, and has always given of
his time and means in the support of the Christian Church. He is
affiliated with the Odd Fellows fraternity.  T. L. Lee married Ursula
Susong, who was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, in 1860.  Harrison was
the oldest of their children; Sophronia is the wife of Forest Carter, a
farmer at Simpsonville, Kentucky; Mellie, wife of W.F. Rambo, a
carpenter and builder at Thornhill; Bessie, wife of H.H. Church, a
farmer at Peaks Mill; Tabitha, wife of Clarence Jordan, a farmer at
Woodlake in Franklin County; Laura, wife of Wallace Gibson, a farmer at
Monterey, Owen County; Birt [sic], a farmer at Switzer in Franklin
County; John, a farmer, is living with his parents; Ernest, a farmer at
Peaks Mill; Miss Matt and Herbert, both at home; and Anna, the youngest
and thirteenth child, wife of John Wise, a farmer at Peaks Mill.
     Harrison Lee was six years of age when brought to Franklin County,
attended the rural schools in this section of Kentucky, and lived on his
father's farm and shared its duties until about twenty-four.  After that
he took up farming on his own account, and has found many interests to
vary his vocational experience.  
     Beginning in 1908, he served as county assessor four years.  He
also had a general store at Peaks Mill until 1912, following which he
spent four years with the Globe Clothing Company and for one year
covered Kentucky as a traveling salesman for a Chicago shoe house.  In
November, 1917, Mr. Lee was elected tax commissioner, beginning his term
of four years in January, 1918.  His offices are in the Court House at
Frankfort.  Mr. Lee and family reside at Thornhill, where he has a
modern home.  He has sold much of his realty property, though he still
has some parcels of real estate in Frankfort.  Mr. Lee is a democrat, a
member of the Christian Church, is active in the Frankfort Chamber of
Commerce and was an investor and active supporter of all the patriotic
and war causes during the conflict with Germany.  Fraternally he is
affiliated with Franklin Lodge No. 530 of the Elks; Frankfort Lodge No.
28, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Frankfort Tribe of the Improved
Order of Red Men; Junior Order United American Mechanics; Frankfort Camp
Modern Woodmen of America; and is a member of the Indiana Division
Travelers Protective Association.  
     At Peaks Mill in 1902 Mr. Lee married Miss Anna Will Stafford,
daughter of Suter and Bettie (Hampton) Stafford, well known farming
people in that section of Franklin County.  Mr. and Mrs. Lee have one
daughter, Mary Saffell, born in 1903.  Mr. Lee's grandfather, Richard
Lee who is a graduate of Business Course at Smith College, was a native
of Virginia and in early life he moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina. 
He married then Louise Dempsey.  He was a merchant at Spartanburg up to
the time of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army and
was killed at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He was in the Battle of Bull Run
and other battles.

Carter Church Dempsey Gibson Hampton Jordan Lee Rambo Stafford Susong
Wise
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