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FORT See also:MADISON , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A.; on the See also:Mississippi See also:river, in the S.E. corner of the See also:state, and about 20 m. S.W. of See also:Burlington. Pop. (189o) 7901; (1900) 9278, of whom 1025 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 8767; (1910) 8900. Fort Madison is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe (which has repair shops here) and the See also:Chicago, Burlington & See also:Quincy See also:railways. The city has various manufactures, including canned goods, chairs, See also:paper and See also:farm implements; the value of its factory product in 1905 was $2,378,892, an increase of 50.8% over that of 1900. Fort Madison is the seat of one of Iowa's penitentiaries. A stockade fort was erected on the site of the city in 18o8, but was burned in 1813. Permanently settled in 1833, Fort Madison was laid out as a See also:town in 1836, and was chartered as a city in 1839.
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