NORMAN LEE is one of Lorain County's citizens who volunteered their services during the dark days of the Civil war and is one of that small army of surviving veterans of the great war.  For many years he has been one of the leading and successful farmers of Camden Township, and in that community has lived respected and has surrounded himself with material comforts as well as the esteem which goes with honorable citizenship.
     His family has been identified with Camden Township since the earliest pioneer times, for more than eighty years.  Mr. Lee was born in Camden, May 22, 1843, a son of Thomas T. and Lucinda (Waugh) Lee.  Both parents were natives of New York State, his father born June 30, 1799, and died Sept. 5, 1877, and his mother born July 10, 1811, and died Febr 5, 1894. After their marriage in New York they came to Ohio in 1833, and were the first family to settle in Camden Township, where Thomas Lee bought a tract of ninety acres.  He cleared up all his land and was quite successful, leaving an estate of 140 acres at the time of his death.  He was a whig and afterwards a republican in politics, holding several town offices and was a member of the Baptist Church.
     Norman Lee is the only survivor of a family of six sons and one daughter.  He grew up on the old homestead in Camden Township, attended the public schools there, and was a valuable helper to his father until past the age of twenty-one.  On Aug. 4, 1864, he enlisted in Company G of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Regiment and was with the army eleven months.  Most of the time he spent on Johnston 's Island in Lake Erie as a guard for the Confederate prisoners.
     On Dec. 16, 1873, Mr. Lee married Frances L. Hurd.  Her father, Harrison Hurd, was born July 11, 1805, and died July 11, 1896, on his ninety-first birthday, was the fourth of the family to locate in Camden Township, and was a very influential man in that community from pioneer times.  He took much part in church affairs and served as deacon.  In the Hurd family were twelve children, and the five now living are: Ann Eliza, widow of John Weeks and living with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lee; Elizabeth, wife of G. R. Parker, a retired citizen of Lorain, Ohio; Mrs. Lee; Albert Hurd, who lives with his daughter in Cleveland; and J. N. Hurd, who occupies the old Hurd homestead in Camden Township.
     Mr. and Mrs. Lee became the parents of four children and the three now living are: Lucinda, wife of Herman Hach, an upholsterer at Cleveland; Thomas Lee, at home with his parents; and Andrew H., who is a farmer in Wakeman Township of Huron County.
     Mrs. Lee is an active member of the Baptist Church at Kipton.  In politics Mr. Lee is identified with the republican organization.  He has been a general farmer for half a century or more, and has given much of his attention to cattle and other stock.  His fine rural place comprises 125 acres of land and all its buildings and important improvements are the result of his management and supervision.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 926