Sacramento Daily Record
January 18 1889
Captain James Lee, the oldest and wealthiest steamboat owner in the United States, died at Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday night, aged 83 years.
According to the Shelby County Register of deaths he was 80 years and 1 month old. He died of congestion fever.
The Elmwood Burial Index lists his burial on January 16, 1889. Interred in Lot 565, grave 5, Turley Section
His parents were John A. Lee and Susan Sarah Morgan. He married Pemina Lucinda Gibson in Dover Tennessee in 1830. This information along with birth information comes from family record data on Ancestry.com.
Interesting stuff about Capt. Lee:
Memphis Daily Appeal
September 1, 1875
The Lee Line
Phil Allin, Captain James Lee Sr., Master; James Thompson, Chief clerk; John Burke and Lew Murray, assistants.
Quickstep, Captain Slack Lee, master; Harry Bateman, Chief Clerk; Braim and Scolian, assistants.
The Lee line was inaugurated in 1867, with the steamer Natoms, under unfavorable auspices. But with regularity and constant reduction of prices, it has concentrated at Memphis all the trade of the rich valley from Memphis to Friars Point, which before sought a market at New Orleans. Captain James Lee has spent the best energies of his life in building up this trade, and prides himself on his contribution to local interest. He built the beautiful Phil Allin entire at Memphis, at a cost of seventy-two thousand dollars, and she has proved herself to be the fastest boat of her power that ever floated, and the best and most successful packet on the western waters. She was built in January, 1871, since which time she has made six hundred and thirty five trips without a failure, except from fog or weather, embracing over one hundred and forty-six times the circumference of the south, and have transported to memphis, of cotton alone, near one hundred thousand bales. So important has this short route been made by this line that Captain Lee induced the government to establish a special mail route over it, which he carried the first two years free of charge. The accumulation of business has been such as to induce the veteran commander to place the Quickstep on the opposite days to the Phil Allin, thus forming a daily line, and giving to the people along this route all the facilities of a double-track railroad.
Nashville Union and American
May 23 1861
Synopsis of the article: A Steamboat Disaster occurred when the Steamboat Kentucky exploded. Twelve killed and Thirty Wounded. In the early morning hours the drum-head or land-deceiver exploded killing 12 people instantly. Captain Lee had inhaled some steam but was not dangerously injured.
January 18 1889
Captain James Lee, the oldest and wealthiest steamboat owner in the United States, died at Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday night, aged 83 years.
According to the Shelby County Register of deaths he was 80 years and 1 month old. He died of congestion fever.
The Elmwood Burial Index lists his burial on January 16, 1889. Interred in Lot 565, grave 5, Turley Section
His parents were John A. Lee and Susan Sarah Morgan. He married Pemina Lucinda Gibson in Dover Tennessee in 1830. This information along with birth information comes from family record data on Ancestry.com.
Interesting stuff about Capt. Lee:
Memphis Daily Appeal
September 1, 1875
The Lee Line
Phil Allin, Captain James Lee Sr., Master; James Thompson, Chief clerk; John Burke and Lew Murray, assistants.
Quickstep, Captain Slack Lee, master; Harry Bateman, Chief Clerk; Braim and Scolian, assistants.
The Lee line was inaugurated in 1867, with the steamer Natoms, under unfavorable auspices. But with regularity and constant reduction of prices, it has concentrated at Memphis all the trade of the rich valley from Memphis to Friars Point, which before sought a market at New Orleans. Captain James Lee has spent the best energies of his life in building up this trade, and prides himself on his contribution to local interest. He built the beautiful Phil Allin entire at Memphis, at a cost of seventy-two thousand dollars, and she has proved herself to be the fastest boat of her power that ever floated, and the best and most successful packet on the western waters. She was built in January, 1871, since which time she has made six hundred and thirty five trips without a failure, except from fog or weather, embracing over one hundred and forty-six times the circumference of the south, and have transported to memphis, of cotton alone, near one hundred thousand bales. So important has this short route been made by this line that Captain Lee induced the government to establish a special mail route over it, which he carried the first two years free of charge. The accumulation of business has been such as to induce the veteran commander to place the Quickstep on the opposite days to the Phil Allin, thus forming a daily line, and giving to the people along this route all the facilities of a double-track railroad.
Nashville Union and American
May 23 1861
Synopsis of the article: A Steamboat Disaster occurred when the Steamboat Kentucky exploded. Twelve killed and Thirty Wounded. In the early morning hours the drum-head or land-deceiver exploded killing 12 people instantly. Captain Lee had inhaled some steam but was not dangerously injured.
Sacramento Daily Record
January 18 1889
Captain James Lee, the oldest and wealthiest steamboat owner in the United States, died at Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday night, aged 83 years.
According to the Shelby County Register of deaths he was 80 years and 1 month old. He died of congestion fever.
The Elmwood Burial Index lists his burial on January 16, 1889. Interred in Lot 565, grave 5, Turley Section
His parents were John A. Lee and Susan Sarah Morgan. He married Pemina Lucinda Gibson in Dover Tennessee in 1830. This information along with birth information comes from family record data on Ancestry.com.
Interesting stuff about Capt. Lee:
Memphis Daily Appeal
September 1, 1875
The Lee Line
Phil Allin, Captain James Lee Sr., Master; James Thompson, Chief clerk; John Burke and Lew Murray, assistants.
Quickstep, Captain Slack Lee, master; Harry Bateman, Chief Clerk; Braim and Scolian, assistants.
The Lee line was inaugurated in 1867, with the steamer Natoms, under unfavorable auspices. But with regularity and constant reduction of prices, it has concentrated at Memphis all the trade of the rich valley from Memphis to Friars Point, which before sought a market at New Orleans. Captain James Lee has spent the best energies of his life in building up this trade, and prides himself on his contribution to local interest. He built the beautiful Phil Allin entire at Memphis, at a cost of seventy-two thousand dollars, and she has proved herself to be the fastest boat of her power that ever floated, and the best and most successful packet on the western waters. She was built in January, 1871, since which time she has made six hundred and thirty five trips without a failure, except from fog or weather, embracing over one hundred and forty-six times the circumference of the south, and have transported to memphis, of cotton alone, near one hundred thousand bales. So important has this short route been made by this line that Captain Lee induced the government to establish a special mail route over it, which he carried the first two years free of charge. The accumulation of business has been such as to induce the veteran commander to place the Quickstep on the opposite days to the Phil Allin, thus forming a daily line, and giving to the people along this route all the facilities of a double-track railroad.
Nashville Union and American
May 23 1861
Synopsis of the article: A Steamboat Disaster occurred when the Steamboat Kentucky exploded. Twelve killed and Thirty Wounded. In the early morning hours the drum-head or land-deceiver exploded killing 12 people instantly. Captain Lee had inhaled some steam but was not dangerously injured.
January 18 1889
Captain James Lee, the oldest and wealthiest steamboat owner in the United States, died at Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday night, aged 83 years.
According to the Shelby County Register of deaths he was 80 years and 1 month old. He died of congestion fever.
The Elmwood Burial Index lists his burial on January 16, 1889. Interred in Lot 565, grave 5, Turley Section
His parents were John A. Lee and Susan Sarah Morgan. He married Pemina Lucinda Gibson in Dover Tennessee in 1830. This information along with birth information comes from family record data on Ancestry.com.
Interesting stuff about Capt. Lee:
Memphis Daily Appeal
September 1, 1875
The Lee Line
Phil Allin, Captain James Lee Sr., Master; James Thompson, Chief clerk; John Burke and Lew Murray, assistants.
Quickstep, Captain Slack Lee, master; Harry Bateman, Chief Clerk; Braim and Scolian, assistants.
The Lee line was inaugurated in 1867, with the steamer Natoms, under unfavorable auspices. But with regularity and constant reduction of prices, it has concentrated at Memphis all the trade of the rich valley from Memphis to Friars Point, which before sought a market at New Orleans. Captain James Lee has spent the best energies of his life in building up this trade, and prides himself on his contribution to local interest. He built the beautiful Phil Allin entire at Memphis, at a cost of seventy-two thousand dollars, and she has proved herself to be the fastest boat of her power that ever floated, and the best and most successful packet on the western waters. She was built in January, 1871, since which time she has made six hundred and thirty five trips without a failure, except from fog or weather, embracing over one hundred and forty-six times the circumference of the south, and have transported to memphis, of cotton alone, near one hundred thousand bales. So important has this short route been made by this line that Captain Lee induced the government to establish a special mail route over it, which he carried the first two years free of charge. The accumulation of business has been such as to induce the veteran commander to place the Quickstep on the opposite days to the Phil Allin, thus forming a daily line, and giving to the people along this route all the facilities of a double-track railroad.
Nashville Union and American
May 23 1861
Synopsis of the article: A Steamboat Disaster occurred when the Steamboat Kentucky exploded. Twelve killed and Thirty Wounded. In the early morning hours the drum-head or land-deceiver exploded killing 12 people instantly. Captain Lee had inhaled some steam but was not dangerously injured.
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