Silas Lee    

SILAS LEE, deceased, was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where his ancestors had lived since before the Revolutionary war. The family is related to the Lees of Virginia. Our subject removed from Bucks county to Connersville, Indiana, in 1821, where he read law with Oliver H. Smith, subsequently a United States senator from that state, was there admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession at Perrysburg, Ohio. After practicing some ten years he returned to his native county and gave up the legal profession, afterward engaging in agricultural pursuits. He was mar­ried at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Mrs. Jane Patterson, nee Holmes, a native of County Fermanagh, Ireland, of which union six children were born. Soon after his marriage Mr. Lee removed to Sharon, Pennsylvania, thence to Iowa in 1857, and afterward to Virginia, where he remained until July. 1860, when, seeing the symptoms of the coming civil war, he brought his family to Franklin. Here he died August 13, 1871, aged eighty-three. His widow survived him until March 14, 1876, dying at the age of sixty-nine. Their family consisted of the following children: Frances Gage, de­ceased wife of George S. King, of Franklin; Ambrose R., of Erie; John H., of Franklin; Mary C., who died in childhood; James W., attorney at law, Franklin, and Clara N., wife of Reverend Reuben F. Randolph, a Methodist preacher now stationed at Buffalo, New York. The parents were adherents of the Methodist Episcopal church, and died in that faith. Politically Mr. Lee was first a Whig, and after the dissolution of that party he became a Republican. 

History of Venango County, Pennsylvania : its past and present, including its aboriginal history, the French and British occupation of the country, its early settlement and subsequent growth, a description of its historic and interesting localities, its rich oil deposits and their development, sketches of its cities, boroughs, townships, and villages, neighborhood and family history, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc., etc.
Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1890, pages 806-809.  Read this book on line - Free Trial Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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