A number of years ago, Shelby County TN Register of Deeds Tom Leatherwood had his staff digitize old records dating to the Civil War and before.\u00a0\u00a0 These records include the City Directories from 1859 through 1918, birth and death records, marriage licenses, along with a number of other old city and county records and which are available online.\u00a0 The following is a list of Lee Family businesses as recorded in various City Directories:.<\/p>\n
1866 through 1875 James Lee Jr. was a partner in the law firm Warinner & Lee<\/p>\n
1870, 1871, 1872\u00a0Memphis Dry Dock Co.\u00a0 James Lee, Jr. President.\u00a0 The Steamer PHIL ALLIN was built at Memphis during this time.\u00a0 Likely it was built at the Memphis Dry Dock Co. since it was owned by the Lee Line.<\/p>\n
1872 and forward, the following Lee Line Packet Companies were in operation: Memphis & Friar’s Point Packet Co.\u00a0 Memphis & Osceola Packet Co.,\u00a0 Memphis & Hales Point Packet Co., St. Francis River Transportation Co., 1891 Memphis & New Madrid Packet Co., 1895 Memphis & Cairo Line Packet Co., 1897 Memphis & Ashport Division, 1898 West Memphis Packet Co., 1899 Memphis & New Madrid Packet Co.<\/p>\n
1880 Robert E Lee began working for the Lee Line as a clerk.\u00a0 During 1886 he became Secretary and Treasurer of the Lee Line Steamers.\u00a0 In 1891 he became superintendent of\u00a0the various divisions of the Lee\u00a0Line.\u00a0 1898 he became President of the Lee-Odlum Boiler Co.\u00a0 In 1901 he\u00a0took on additional duties when he became\u00a0President of the Bohlen-Huse Coal and Ice Business.\u00a0 He also was an officier of the Lee Brothers Co.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1884 James Lee, Jr. President Bohlen-Huse Machine & Lake Ice Co., Superintendent Milburn Gin and Machine Co.(through 1887), Vice President First National Bank.\u00a0 James Lee Jr. held most of these jobs until his death in 1905.\u00a0 James Lee, Jr. was President of the Lee Line U S Mail steamers until 1895 when Robert E Lee took over as President.<\/p>\n
1889 Lee Brothers & Co.(advertised oils, mill supplies, ship chandlers, tent and awning mfgrs), managed by Bayliss Lee who ran the business until he took over the Bohlen-Huse Ice business when his father retired from active management.<\/p>\n
1899 Lee-Odlum Boiler Co.\u00a0 Robert E. Lee President.\u00a0\u00a0 Manufactures of boilers, tanks, sheet, plate and structural work.\u00a0 This business was listed in the city directories until 1901.<\/p>\n
1894 James Lee III is associated with the Memphis Gin & Machine Co which became the Lee Gin & Machine Co. in 1895.\u00a0 Lee Gin & Machine Co. was a manufacturer of plantation and gin house machinery, engines, boilers as well as \u00a0founders and machinist.\u00a0 In the 1900 Polk City Directory the business became the Globe Iron Works.\u00a0 In the 1901 James Lee III was not listed as employed at the Globe Iron Works.<\/p>\n
1897 G. Peters Lee joins Lee Brothers as a clerk and in 1898 he becomes an assistant manager for the Lee Line U. S. Mail Steamers.\u00a0 In 1901 he moves up to the position of assistant general manager.\u00a0 He later becomes a boat captain.\u00a0 In 1915 he becomes the proprietor of the Majestic Hotel and Pool room on Linden Ave, Memphis.\u00a0\u00a0 Around 1918 he is associated with the Majestic Excursion Line which ran out of Memphis.\u00a0 Later he bid on several Lee Line boats when the family held a voluntary liquidation of the company in 1926.\u00a0 The enterprise became the Valley Line which was comprised of the KATE ADAMS (III) and the Lee Line boats he purchased at the 1926 liquidation.\u00a0 The Valley Line lasted only a few years before folding.<\/p>\n
1901 my grandfather Shelby Rees Lee known as Rees became the manager of the Lee Line warehouse.\u00a0 By 1903 he becomes a manager of the Lee Line and moves up to a boat captain and finally as general manager in 1913.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A number of years ago, Shelby County TN Register of Deeds Tom Leatherwood had his staff digitize old records dating to the Civil War and before.\u00a0\u00a0 These records include the City Directories from 1859 through 1918, birth and death records, … Continue reading