Husband James Lees, Jr. 1
Born: 4 Jan 1864 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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Father: James Lees (Abt 1833-Aft 1913) 2
Mother: Anna Evans (Abt 1841-Aft 1913) 1
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Other Spouse: Ida B. Maple ( - ) 3 - 6 Nov 1889 - East Liverpool, Columbiana Co, OH 3
Wife Flora Roesing 3
AKA: Flora Roessing 4
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Died: 1877 3
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Mother: Florence Roesing ( - ) 3
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1 F Corrinne F. Lees 3
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Spouse: Wallace White ( - ) 3
General Notes: Husband - James Lees, Jr.
He attended the Liberty school at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until fourteen years old, then entering the foundry at McKeesport, where he learned the trade of molder. After eleven years there he spent a few months at East Liverpool, and one year at Pittsburgh, in March, 1891, coming to Leechburg, Armstrong County, where he secured employment in the foundry of the Leechburg Foundry & Machine Company. Remaining four years in this connection, at the end of that time, in company with T. W. McClausland, N. H. Slonaker, George Shaner, and five others who sold their interest to the four mentioned above, he organized what became the Hyde Park Foundry & Machine Company. They started business with a foundry only 60 by 80 feet in dimensions. They came to have a foundry 280 by 80 feet, while their machine shop was 260 by 70 feet, and the pattern shop 80 by 40 feet; there was also a power house, besides offices, etc. The company manufactured all rolling mill machinery. Employment was given to one hundred skilled workmen, kept busy all the year round. For the first few years Mr. Lees had charge of the foundry, and he ran the first heat. Beginning in 1903, however, he was the outside man, selling for the company. His other important business connections were with the Acme Natural Gas Company, of Leechburg, of which he was president, and with the National Gas Producer Company, of Leechburg, in which he was a stockholder. He also maintained an interest in local affairs to the extent of serving as member of the council. Politically he was a Republican, and socially an Odd Fellow and a Scottish Rite Mason, in the latter connection belonging to Blue Lodge No. 577, F. & A. M.; Orient Chapter, No. 247, R. A. M., of Kittanning; Tancred Commandery, No. 48, K. T., of Pittsburgh, and the Consistory at Coudersport. He passed all the chairs in the I. O. O. F. The Methodist Church held his membership, and he sang bass in the choir for several years. Ever since he was a youth of eighteen, he was well known as a church singer, his voice, which was a combination of baritone and a deep, musical bass, being of superior quality and unusual strength, and much appreciated in solo as well as choir singing.