1860 Village of Clarkston census records listed Lee as a 23 year old schoolteacher who was born in N.Y.
Wife Isabella, "Belle", G. Accordin to 1860 records she was 22 at the time and born in N.J.
Also listed in the household in 1860 were Lucy, a 24 year old schoolteacher born in N.Y.; Amanda, age 45, born in Vermont; and Fredick Nichols, age 4, born in Michigan.
Lee was a manufacturer of harnesses & farm implements, & owner of a woolen mill & a foundry. He was Township Clerk 1860-62 & 1864-66. In 1870 he was the owner of the first brick building built on the site of 4, 6, 8 S. Main known as Bingham Hall. By 1887 the 2nd floor, site of dances & meetings, was called Walter Hall. Tax records indicate the building burned in 1887. The Clarkston Building Association/Maccabee Building was built on the site in 1903. Bingham's residence as shown on the 1872 map of the Village was the house at 75/77 S. Main St., while a building on the site of 39 S. Main was probably his shop.
